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Views on Everyday Life and Reflections on Future Death and Dying Among Older Persons Residing in Nursing Homes: A Meta‐Ethnographic Synthesis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Older People Nursing, Volume 21, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Life issues relating to identity, meaning and dignity are inherent to human existence and remain significant throughout the entire lifespan. To meet the needs of older persons residing in nursing homes, it is essential to understand their views on everyday life, particularly regarding the proximity of death, reflections on future ...
Peter Lundberg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Liquid Crystal Elastomers Filaments for Adaptive Textiles and Soft Robotics: A Processing‐Centric Review

open access: yesMacromolecular Rapid Communications, Volume 47, Issue 15, 4 August 2026.
Liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) filaments are fabricated through extrusion with in‐process UV curing, enabling controlled flow alignment and network locking of mesogens. The resulting structure responds to thermal or optical stimuli, inducing molecular reorientation and macroscopic contraction.
Anne Schwarz‐Pfeiffer, Shazia Mehtab
wiley   +1 more source

Of cables and threads

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 283-295, August 2026.
Abstract Over the past two decades, gondola lifts have become central to interventions in urban Latin America's auto‐constructed peripheries. As cable car urbanism reshapes the city's edge, it raises fundamental questions about the notion of the “urban fabric” as a sociomaterial practice, an epistemology, and a site of politics.
Federico Pérez Fernández
wiley   +1 more source

Palatal violence: Sonic gatekeeping and enemy‐making in wartime Ukraine

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract Within 2 days of Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine, a single word—palianytsia, a Ukrainian round loaf—became a phonetic test separating Ukrainians from Russians. The article traces how a culinary term was enregistered as a wartime shibboleth that structurally marks the very citizens it was meant to protect as enemies.
Anatoli Ulyanov
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation of Factors Affecting the Performance of Textronic UHF RFID Transponders. [PDF]

open access: yesSensors (Basel), 2023
Ziobro A   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Application of Piezoelectric PLLA Braided Cord as Wearable Sensor to Realize Monitoring System for Indoor Dogs with Less Physical or Mental Stress. [PDF]

open access: yesMicromachines (Basel), 2023
Tajitsu Y   +21 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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