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Ice Lithography: Recent Progress Opens a New Frontier of Opportunities

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review focuses on recent advancements in ice lithography, including breakthroughs in compatible precursors and substrates, processes and applications, hardware, and digital methods. Moreover, it offers a roadmap to uncover innovation opportunities for ice lithography in fields such as biological, nanoengineering and microsystems, biophysics and ...
Bingdong Chang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perception of Students' Evaluation of Teaching Performance by Lecturers in Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria

open access: yesABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBO, 2014
The use of student evaluation of teaching effectiveness to assess lecturers' performance in the classroom is one of the common and most controversial practices in tertiary institutions all over the world.
Funmilayo Yemi Ojo
doaj   +1 more source

RoHS‐Compliant, Cu‐Zn‐In‐Se‐Based Core/Multi‐shell Quantum Dots with Efficient and Tunable Short‐Wave Infrared Emission

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An innovative combination of size‐controlled template synthesis, partial cation exchange reactions, and dual shell passivation offers a new class of RoHS‐compliant, heavy metal‐free Cu‐Zn‐In‐Se/ZnS/Al2O3 core/shell/shell quantum dots (QDs), exhibiting long‐range tunability, highly efficient SWIR emission with remarkably narrow photoluminescence ...
Avijit Saha   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Dialogic: A Critical Evaluation of Wole Soyinka's The Trial of Brother Jero and Femi Osofisan's Midnight Hotel

open access: yesABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBO, 2014
Wole Soyinka and Femi Osofisan are two writers known for the employment of satire as commentaries on the socio-political landscape of Africa. Their works, The Trial of Brother Jero and Midnight Hotels therefore provide ideas for a discourse on religion ...
Sunday Olaoluwagbamila Dawodu
doaj   +1 more source

The Price of "Man" and "Woman": A Hedonic Pricing Model of Avatar Attributes in a Synthetic World [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper explores a unique new source of social valuation: a market for bodies. The internet hosts a number of large synthetic worlds which users can visit by piloting a computer-generated body, known as an avatar.
Edward Castronova
core  

Native Americans and Athletic Scholarships [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This research examines the potential effects of collegiate athletic scholarships on Native American athlete’s lives and the lives of the people in their communities.
Chapov, Mackenzie
core   +1 more source

3D Digital Light Processing of Redox‐Active Polymers for Electrochemical Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
3D printing of electrochemically switchable conducting polymers is achieved by Digital Light Processing of redox‐active carbazole‐based polymer materials. Complex 2D and 3D architectures including dot arrays and pyramids clearly show the potential for novel 3D switchable electrochemical devices for sensors, electrochromic displays as well as 3D printed
Christian Delavier   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Scepticism: A Panacea for the Nigerian Political Leadership Quagmire

open access: yesABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBO, 2013
The paper blames the 'Nigerian political misfortune on the ignorance of the masses. It argues that the gullibility of the Nigerian masses has not fared well on the political climate of the country.
Babalola Joseph Balogun
doaj   +1 more source

A New Look at the Old Race Language: Rethinking Race and Exclusion in Social Policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
This essay is an examination of the use of the notion “race current in American social science literature and public discourse. It argues that the current assumptions of “race are mistaken and lead to misunderstanding and misdirected social policy.
Ngin, ChorSwang
core   +1 more source

Electroactive Liquid Crystal Elastomers as Soft Actuators

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electroactive liquid crystal elastomers (eLCEs) can be actuated via electromechanical, electrochemical, or electrothermal effects. a) Electromechanical effects include Maxwell stress, electrostriction, and the electroclinic effect. b) Electrochemical effects arise from electrode redox reactions.
Yakui Deng, Min‐Hui Li
wiley   +1 more source

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