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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 +6 more
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Economic Value Added versus Traditional Performance Metrics in the Czech Food-Processing Sector [PDF]
The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between Economic Value Added, traditional performance measures (Return on Assets ‘ROA’ and Return on Equity ‘ROE’) and their ability to measure the creation of shareholder wealth in food ...
Chmelikova, Gabriela
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The Value of Economic Reality: Applying Economic Value Added [PDF]
, 2007 The concept of Economic Value Added (EVA) is a revolutionary way to measure the value of a business. In its simplest form, EVA is a system that determines companies’ worth and performance based on their economic reality, not numbers produced according to
Phillips, David M
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Bio‐Inspired Synthesis of Macroporous Single Crystal Particles as Scattering Agents
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A general strategy is presented that delivers unique, single‐crystal microparticles that combine submicron macroporosity and uniform particle shapes. A bioinspired approach is used to occlude three distinct types of additives – polystyrene microspheres, polymer vesicles and amino acids – within calcite single crystals, and subsequent thermal annealing ...
Stephanie E. Foster +11 more
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IS EVA AN IMPORTANT FORECASTING TOOL FOR KNOWLEDGEBASED ORGANIZATIONS IN ECONOMIC CRISES TIME? [PDF]
Nowadays we may observe that all the economies are passing through financial and economic crisis. How can move from high economic growth in the crisis? Here is a question that sits on many lips.
Elena Roxana Stan +2 more
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Electrospun Wood‐Derived Biopolymers as Electrodes in Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Electrospinning transforms wood‐derived cellulose and lignin into architecturally defined, binder‐free carbon electrodes with tuneable porosity and functionality. This review shows how fibre design enables decoupled charge and mass transport, enhancing performance across battery systems, while identifying key challenges in spinnability, scalability ...
Michael W. Thielke +3 more
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The value-added tax reform puzzle [PDF]
This explores the impact of a tax reform in some provinces of China which eliminated the value-added tax on some investment goods. While the goal of the experiment was to encourage upgrading of technology, the results suggest that there was no evident ...
Cai, Jing, Harrison, Ann
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Value Added Trade Restrictiveness Indexes. Measuring Protection within Global Value Chains [PDF]
, 2018 Production and trade are increasingly organized within Global Value Chains (GVCs) and therefore assessing who effectively pays the cost of protection is not straightforward.
Luca Salvatici +2 more
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Jurnal Ekonomi & Studi Pembangunan, 2018 The performance of financial statements shows the level of productivity in a company. Specific to banking sector, the performance of its financial statements can be analyzed from Economic Value Added (EVA) and Market Value Added (MVA).
I Wayan Sunarya
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Coordinated Architectural and Chemical Reinforcement in the Crushing Mandible of a Soldier Termite
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The crushing mandible of a soldier termite withstands substantial biting loads despite lacking mineral. Its cuticle is partitioned: convex teeth pair hardness and zinc enrichment with aligned chitin fibers for contact durability, while stiffer concave regions between teeth carry bending loads.
Andrew Tran Nguyen +16 more
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