Results 51 to 60 of about 957 (216)

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

open access: yesMacromolecular Rapid Communications, EarlyView.
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

Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
wiley   +1 more source

Mindful Stitch: Generating dialogue in and around the threads of wellbeing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article investigates wellbeing and mindfulness within contemporary art and craft practice, exploring initial introductions by Jon Kabat-Zinn of mindfulness practices into modern westernised medicine as a group or independent outlet. 21st Century
Swinnerton, Emma Louise
core   +1 more source

Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
wiley   +1 more source

Natalia Ledzhanova, Valentina Basangova, Embroidery

open access: yes, 2019
This is Natalia’s story: My name is Natalia. I am a teacher at the Tsagan-Aman gymnasium. I sew and teach sewing to children. People often ask me about the dress that I am wearing now. The embroidery on my chest is called zeg.

core   +1 more source

Design and Performance Analysis of Compact Wearable Textile Antennas for IoT and Body-Centric Communication Applications

open access: yesInternational Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2021
This paper presents two compact textile-based planar dipole and loop antennas for wearable communication applications operating in the 2.4 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical radio (ISM) bands.
Sanjit Varma   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source

Embroidery Modelling and Rendering [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Embroidery is a traditional non-photorealistic art form in which threads of different colours stitched into a base material are used to create an image.
Chen, Xinling
core  

Exploration of Adventure Gim Embroidery in Society 5.0

open access: yes, 2023
Gim embroidery has been used during the reign of Paku Buwono X at the Surakarta Hadiningrat Palace and Hamengku Buwono VIII at the Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat Palace.
., Guntur   +2 more
core  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy