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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

Transition in Global Basins From Precipitation‐Dominated to Evaporative Demand‐Dominated Meteorological Drought: Past Patterns and Future Projections

Earth's Future
Meteorological drought, one of the most destructive natural hazards, is driven by both precipitation deficits and high evaporative demand. While precipitation has traditionally been considered the dominant driver, recent studies suggest an increasing ...
Jiachen Ji, Chiyuan Miao, Jinlong Hu, Jiajia Su, Shidie Chen, Yufei Wang, Yunning Kong, Xiaoyong Bai, Yiying Wang   +8 more
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Assessing Food Security in Restricted Access Areas Using Remote Sensing: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Gaza from 2018 to 2024 [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Food security assessments in conflict-affected regions face significant methodological challenges due to restricted ground access, data scarcity, and disruptions to agricultural production and food distribution networks.
J. Jilma, S. Ghaffarian
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Disaster resilience and children: managing food security in Zimbabwe's Binga District [PDF]

, 2008
The growing recognition of the vulnerability of children to disasters has added a new impetus to the concept of their involvement in disaster risk reduction programs.
Collins, Andrew, Fordham, Maureen, Manyena, Bernard   +2 more
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Obstacles and disaster risk reduction: Survey of Memphis organizations [PDF]

, 2010
Accepted VersionThe disaster management literature is replete with surveys at the community and household levels. However, few exist at the organizational level. This study attempts to fill this void by examining the effect of organizational obstacles on
Abdul-Akeem Sadiq, Auf der Heide E., Berke P. R., Christopher M. Weible, Dahlhamer J. M., Davis M. S., Dillman D. A., Drabek T. E., Edwards M. L., Farley J. E., Farley J. E., Jackson E. L., Kaufman H., Kingdon J. W., Lindell M. K., Mileti D. S., Palm R. I., Pfeffer J., Selznick P., Showalter P. S., Sullivan R., Tierney K. J., Turner R. H., Wyner A. J., Yukl G.   +24 more
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Collision‐Resilient Winged Drones Enabled by Tensegrity Structures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Based on structures of birds such as the woodpeck, this article presents the collision‐resilient aerial robot, SWIFT. SWIFT leverages tensegrity structures in the fuselage and wings which allow it to undergo large deformations in a crash, without sustaining damage. Experiments show that SWIFT can reduce impact forces by 70% over conventional structures.
Omar Aloui, Raphael Zufferey, William Stewart, Mohammad Askari, Simon Jeger, Dario Floreano   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

MANTRA game analytics: effectiveness of educational mobile game on knowledge gain and retention of Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) and women in rural Nepal assessed through game analytics

BMC Public Health
Background Mobile technology can deliver public health interventions to reach remote populations such as unique mHealth interventions aimed at low-literacy audiences in low resource settings. This research study assessed a mobile phone-based serious game
Sonja Mueller, Katerina Stavrianaki, Andrei Boscor, Naomi Saville, Abriti Arjyal, Sushil C. Baral, Maureen Fordham, Gareth Hearn, Patty Kostkova   +8 more
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Gender mainstreaming in disaster reduction: Why and how? [PDF]

The significant losses in human life and livelihoods, the destruction of economic and social infrastructure and damage to the environment caused by disasters in the past decade has increased the necessity for proper disaster reduction and risk ...
Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Ginige, K. N., Haigh, Richard   +2 more
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Learning Lessons From Natural Disasters and the Derivation of Related Disaster Reduction Techniques [PDF]

, 2010
This paper describes the way how lessons that have been learned in the aftermath of a natural disaster can be analysed and subsequently structured in order to elicit inherent information important for making a lesson valid.
SCHEER Stefan
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Formation Control of Multi‐Agent System with Local Interaction and Artificial Potential Field

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article proposes a local interaction‐based formation control method for Multi‐Agent system, integrating consensus and leader‐follower strategies with a stress response mechanism—artificial potential field to reduce communication overhead and enable obstacle avoidance. Experimental results on triangular, square, and hexagonal formations confirm its
Luoyin Zhao, Zheping Yan, Yuqing Wang, Raye Chen‐Hua Yeow   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source