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Biomimetic Innovations: Exploring Bubble-Trapping Organisms for Manufacturing Breakthroughs. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Yu H, Wang H, Bing W.
europepmc   +1 more source

Worm‐Inspired Soft Robots With Modular Outfit‐Changing for Intelligent Multienvironment Adaptation

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study proposes a worm‐inspired soft robot capable of locomotion across multiple environments through a modular “outfit‐changing” strategy. The robot integrates pneumatically actuated peristaltic segments with interchangeable external modules, enabling efficient motion on ground surfaces, within pipelines, through granular media, and underwater ...
Xiaomin Liu, Heng Wei, Zhengxin Guo, Zheng Liu, Yi Jin, Yunwei Zhao, Changyong Chase Cao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

An in-depth look at shallow-water walking: the mechanical determinants of the energy metabolic cost of shallow water walking in humans. [PDF]

Pflugers Arch
Ivaniski-Mello A, Minetti AE, Martinez FG, Peyré-Tartaruga LA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar, Laura Meriluoto, Richard Watt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

High-temperature probe of electron compressibility via asymmetric Coulomb drag. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Liu Y, Yang K, Wang H, Zhang Q, Liu H, Watanabe K, Taniguchi T, Ren W, Han ZV, Zhao S.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘I Don't Babysit’: Stay‐at‐Home Dads' Perspectives and Experiences Within Australian Society

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Stay‐at‐home‐dads are an emerging group in Australia, impacted by societal assumptions and expectations. However, there is a scarcity of research on the perspectives and experiences of fathers assuming stay‐at‐home dad roles within Australian society.
Elyse Manie, Patricia Taylor, Hayley McKenzie, Norma Barrett   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of strong parametric excitation on cantilever beam: non-perturbative approach. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Moatimid GM, Amer TS, Elagamy K.
europepmc   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing start-up and torque in Darrieus VAWTs through a novel plain gurney flap design. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Eltayeb W, Somlal J, SirElkhatim M, Yedukondalu G, Srinath A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source