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Strategic Drones

US drone strikes are popular with the electorate and overseen by the President. This paper investigates whether the US President uses drone strikes strategically for political gain. We document that US drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen are significantly more likely before US elections, when popularity has high payoffs.
Alfano, Marco, Clarr, Margaux, Marques Pereira, Jaime, Maystadt, Jean-Francois   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Water Permeates and Plasticizes Amorphous Carbon Dots: Unraveling the Inner Accessibility of the Nanoparticles by Glass Transition Studies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The water permeability of amorphous carbon dots (CDs) is demonstrated by investigating their plasticization. Novel polyamide‐based and amorphous nanoparticles are synthesized by controlling their inner packing density. Water plasticization is evidenced by the decrease of the CDs glass transition temperature with increasing the hydration degree.
Elisa Sturabotti, Valerio Di Lisio, Lucia Cardo, Alessandro Camilli, Estela Moretón Alfonsín, Daniele Cangialosi, Amaia Iturrospe Ibarra, Arantxa Arbe, Maurizio Prato   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Directional Flow of Confined Polaritons in CrSBr

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
CrSBr, a layered magnetic semiconductor, naturally channels self‐hybridized excitonpolaritons into highly directional flow. Its intrinsic optical anisotropy, high refractive index, and strong lightmatter coupling enable long‐range guided modes along the a‐axis, with propagation lengths set by their excitonphoton admixture.
Pratap Chandra Adak, Sichao Yu, Jaime Abad‐Arredondo, Biswajit Datta, Andy Cruz, Sorah Fischer, Kseniia Mosina, Zdeněk Sofer, Antonio I. Fernández‐Domínguez, Francisco J. Garcia‐Vidal, Vinod M. Menon   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Triply‐Twinned Metamaterials: Unraveling the Mechanics and Failure Pathways Through High‐Resolution XCT

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Triply‐twinned architected lattices transform deformation from bending to stretching of struts, delivering up to threefold increases in stiffness and strength across polymeric and metallic systems. High‐resolution synchrotron XCT and image‐based simulations reveal how meta‐grain architecture, defects, and AM build orientation govern failure pathways ...
David McArthur, George Maddison, Jaianth Vijayakumar, Paul Tafforeau, Kathy Christofidou, Peter David Lee, PJ Tan, Chu Lun Alex Leung   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The number of drones to inseminate a queen with has little potential for optimization of honeybee breeding programs

Hereditas
Background Mating control is a crucial aspect of honeybee breeding. Instrumental insemination of queens gives the breeder maximum control over the genetic origin of the involved drones.
Manuel Du, Richard Bernstein, Andreas Hoppe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Electrically Assisted Thermal Stamping of Tunable Carbon‐Based Nanofilms for Direct Fabrication of Hydrophobic, Energy Harvesting, and Sensing Devices

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Schematic illustration of the electrically assisted thermal stamping (EATS) method for direct fabrication of carbon‐based nanofilms and their multifunctional applications. Localized Joule heating triggers simultaneous exfoliation, reduction, and fluoropolymer incorporation under ambient conditions, yielding tunable carbon‐based thin‐film coatings ...
Byungseok Seo, Yong Choi, Gajendra S. Shekhawat, Minjoong Shin, Kunmo Koo, Xiaobing Hu, Jiheon Kim, Wonjoon Choi, Xinqi Chen, Vinayak P. Dravid   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ion‐Reconfigurable “N”‐Shaped Antiambipolar Behavior in Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A unique N‐shaped negative differential transconductance (NDT) characteristics is demonstrated in single‐polymer organic electrochemical transistors through a sequential doping–redox–doping process driven by iodide ions. This redox‐driven mechanism enables low‐voltage, ion‐controlled reconfigurability and tunable current modulation, allowing seamless ...
Debdatta Panigrahi, Daniele Zucchelli, Zeinab Hamid, Christina Kousseff, Arup Sarkar, Aristea Pavlou, Zhitian Ling, Somayeh Kashani, Iain McCulloch, Paul W. M. Blom, Fabrizio Torricelli, Paschalis Gkoupidenis   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Travel route and formation optimization for flocks of drones in package delivery by using an ACO based V-Shape algorithm

Results in Engineering
Despite a lot of research throughout the last half century about the fact that geese and other bird species have the tendency to fly in a V-Shape configuration, investigation about applying this phenomenon to swarms of drones used in parcel delivery is ...
E. De Kuyffer, W. Joseph, L. Martens, T. De Pessemier   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Polymorph‐Specific Electronic Transduction in WO3 during Molecular Sensing

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Metal‐oxide polymorphs with similar surface chemistry can nevertheless exhibit distinct sensing properties. In γ‐ and ε‐WO3, analyte adsorption appears comparable; yet, only ε‐WO3 induces a pronounced lattice electronic perturbation that accommodates charge in sub‐conduction band minimum states.
Matteo D'Andria, Meng Yin, Stefan Neuhauser, Vlasis G. Mavrantzas, Ying Chen, Ken Suzuki, Andreas T. Güntner   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bottom‐Up Programming of Cell States in Cancer Organoids with Defined Synthetic Adhesion Cues

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A bottom‐up biomaterial platform is developed to program transcriptomic states in pancreatic cancer organoids by tuning adhesion cues within synthetic matrices. By combining a Design of Experiments framework with multiobjective optimization, matrix compositions are identified that enrich specific cellular programs like EMT.
Ali Nadernezhad, Verena J. Kast, Dagmar Pette, Franziska Baenke, Daniel E. Stange, Carsten Werner, Daniela Loessner   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source