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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review highlights the principle mechanisms of slipping at the microscale, linking contact mechanics with a friction behavior model for surface interfaces. Main strategies to develop anti‐slip properties to the surfaces are discussed alongside standardized testing approaches.
Sogand Abbaspoor‐Zanjani +3 more
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Depth-dependent soil mixing persists across climate zones
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Significance Soil mixing occurs when sediment and organic matter are moved by biotic processes (burrowing mammals and invertebrates, root growth, and decay) and abiotic processes (movement of water and granular creep).
H. Gray +4 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Systematic review and best practices for drone remote sensing of invasive plants
Methods in Ecology and EvolutionDrones have emerged as a cost‐effective solution to detect and map plant invasions, offering researchers and land managers flexibility in flight design, sensors and data collection schedules. A systematic review of trends in drone‐based image collection,
Kunwar K. Singh +2 more
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Differential adaptation strategies by agro-ecological zones in African livestock management [PDF]
This paper examines how farmers have adapted their livestock operation to the current climate in each agro-ecological zone in Africa. The authors examine how climate has affected the farmer's choice to raise livestock or not and the choice of animal ...
Dinar, Ariel +3 more
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Advanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.Nanosafety data provide a guiding example for establishing best practices in data management, aligning with FAIR principles and quality criteria. This review explores existing quality assessment approaches for reliability, relevance, and completeness, emphasizing the need for harmonization and adaptation to nanomaterials and advanced materials. The aim
Verónica I. Dumit +43 more
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BuildingsThe article discusses issues related to improving the energy efficiency of translucent structures (hereinafter referred to as windows) in the construction of buildings in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Serikbolat Yessengabulov +8 more
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Heat, Disparities, and Health Outcomes in San Diego County's Diverse Climate Zones
GeoHealth, 2018 Climate variability and change are issues of growing public health importance. Numerous studies have documented risks of extreme heat on human health in different locations around the world.
Kristen Guirguis +12 more
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Second best ? investment climate and performance in Africa's special economic zones [PDF]
As an instrument of trade and investment policy, special economic zones have played a catalytic role in processes of industrialization, diversification, and trade integration in many countries, particularly in East Asia.
Farole, Thomas
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CAVIAR: Climate variability of the Baltic Sea area and the response of the general circulation of the Baltic Sea to climate variability [PDF]
, 2010 The warming trend for the entire globe (1850-2005) is 0.04°C per decade. A specific warming period started around 1980 and continues at least until 2005, with a temperature increase of about 0.17°C per decade.
Getzlaff, Klaus +3 more
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