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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Breaking the Surface: Buoyant Metal–Polymer Open–Cell Hybrid Lattice Metamaterials

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Open‐cell metal–polymer lattice metamaterials that defy sinking. (a) Injection process of the polyurethane (PU) foam into the titanium (Ti‐6Al‐4V) hollow‐strut lattice creating the open‐cell Ti‐6Al‐4V+PU hybrid lattice, (b) flotation test of a hybrid lattice specimen, and (c) a digital representation and experimental validation of a marine buoy ...
Jordan Noronha, Joey Tallon, Raad Omar, Jason Dash, Andrey Molotnikov, Martin Leary, Milan Brandt, Ma Qian   +7 more
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Multidimensional food security in North Eastern Amhara: a CARI based agroecological analysis

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The North Eastern Amhara Region is prone to drought, making the pursuit of food security a significant challenge. In this context, a multidimensional food security analysis can provide policymakers with the insights needed for timely interventions.
Henock Abate Demessia, Arega Bazezew Berlie, Yilebes Addisu Damtie   +2 more
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Disaster Risk Management in Libraries and Information Centers: Global Strategies, Challenges, Policy and Recommendations [PDF]

Libraries and Information Centers, as custodians of information, knowledge, and cultural heritage, face significant risks from disasters that threaten their collections, operations, and the communities they serve.
Mohammed, Hafsat Aliyu, Hamza, Jumare Mohammed, Dada , Kayode Sunday John   +2 more
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Innovative solutions for flood risk management [PDF]

, 2021
Starting from the importance of innovative solutions for improving the needs of different practitioners as flood risk managers, the purpose of this review was to describe and analyze, evaluates, and prioritizes the various available different innovative ...
Martinović, Jovana, Cvetkovic, Vladimir M.   +1 more
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Radiative Thermal Management for Extreme Environments: Mechanisms and Design Strategies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
In this review, we discuss the fundamental mechanisms of radiative cooling and solar heating, material and structural design strategies, hybrid approaches integrating additional heat transfer pathways, and durability‐oriented designs addressing environmental stresses.
Hyung Rae Kim, Haeseong Kim, Joo Hwan Ko, Gil Ju Lee, Dae‐Hyeong Kim, Young Min Song   +5 more
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Opportunity windows accelerate action and expand options for climate adaptation in Europe

Communications Earth & Environment
Climate adaptation must be intensified globally to keep up with increasing climate change impacts. To date, adaptation is mostly driven by climate risks that need to be reduced and little by opportunities. We identify opportunity windows -i.e. favourable
Valeria Di Fant, Hans Middelkoop, Karianne de Bruin, Ann-Kathrin Petersen, Bart van den Hurk, Marjolijn Haasnoot   +5 more
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Integrating Disability into Disaster Management Education in India: A Critical Review [PDF]

Children with Special Needs (CwSN) are at heightened risk during disasters due to inadequate disaster management provisions for them. Their disabilities make them particularly vulnerable when disaster protections are inadequate or when injured children ...
Goswami, Tisha, Ahmad, Ansar
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Hierarchical Multi‐Material Architectures With Gradient Design for Dynamic‐Range Flexible Tactile Sensing

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Hierarchical multi‐material TPMS lattices are engineered as flexible tactile sensors by combining soft and stiff elastomeric layers with a conformal conductive coating. The bilayer architecture delivers sensitivity at low pressures while maintaining a broad detectable range under large loads, enabling reliable pressure and vibration monitoring for ...
Reza Noroozi, Domenic Quiquero, Yan Yan Shery Huang, HaoTian Harvey Shi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Household livelihood vulnerability to climate induced droughts in the drought prone area of Sekota district Ethiopia

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Ethiopia is one of the most vulnerable countries in sub-Saharan Africa to climate change. Rural livelihoods, in particular, are rain-fed agriculture dependent and adversely affected by climate-induced droughts.
Tesfahun Telake Admasu, Arega Bazezew Berlie, Yilebes Addisu Damtie, Henock Abate Demessia, Simachew Bantigegn, Mehretie Belay   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source