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Generalized Task‐Driven Design of Soft Robots via Reduced‐Order Finite Element Method‐Based Surrogate Modeling

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A unified, reusable modeling pipeline enables task‐driven design of soft robots across actuator families and task scenarios. High‐fidelity simulations are compressed into compact pseudo‐rigid‐body joint surrogates, while a design‐conditioned meta‐model generates new surrogates from geometry parameters without rerunning finite element method.
Yao Yao, David Howard, Perla Maiolino
wiley   +1 more source

Codification: The future of English consumer law? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
EuCML granted Brunel University London the permission to archive this article in BURA (http://bura.brunel.ac.uk)
Riefa, C
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Interpretation Rules and Good Faith as Obstacles to the UK\u27s Ratification of the CISG and to the Harmonization of Contract Law in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This essay examines Article 7 of the CISG, the provision on the Convention’s interpretation, through the lenses of both German and English law in order to shed light on interpretative issues in which there are divergent views in common law and civil law ...
Hofmann, Nathalie
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Innovative Artificial Intelligence‐Assisted Systems for Social Science Research: Architecture Design and Applied Practice

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid advancement of large language model (LLM) technology is profoundly transforming the practice of social science research. Scholarly discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI)'s role in social science research can be organised into three levels: AI as a research tool, AI as a methodological infrastructure and AI as a quasi‐cognitive ...
Jie Xiong
wiley   +1 more source

Buried Treasure: some lesser-known items in the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
Preprint of an article written in 1992 by Paul Norman (then Senior Assistant Librarian at IALS) describing some rare and lesser-known works in the Roman law, Roman-Dutch law and English law collections of IALS Library.
Norman, Paul
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Ius in Bello under Islamic International Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In 1966, Judge Jessup of the International Court of Justice pointed out that the appearance of an English translation of the teaching on the ‘Islamic law of nations’ of an eighth-century Islamic jurist (Shaybānī) is particularly timely and of so much ...
Badar, Mohamed
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The Open‐Source Paradox: Africa's Digital Sovereignty and the Structural Limits of Artificial Intelligence Autonomy

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Open‐source artificial intelligence is widely promoted as a democratising pathway to digital sovereignty for African states, offering access to frontier architectures without prohibitive capital investment. This paper investigates whether open‐source AI represents a credible route to autonomy or generates a new form of structural dependency ...
Ololade A. Shonubi
wiley   +1 more source

The Reformation of English Administrative Law [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
This article examines the process of constitutionalisation that is ongoing in English administrative law. It does so by focusing on two key questions which, although hitherto largely overlooked by commentators, are beginning to receive attention in the courts. The first question - the 'sin' of omission - relates to the question of how the courts should
openaire   +1 more source

The Case against 'Outsider Reverse' Veil Piercing in Company Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
For many years, jurists have struggled to rationalise the common law rules which prescribe the circumstances in which it is justifiable to eschew the principle of separate legal personality which posits that a company is distinct from its members and ...
Cabrelli, David
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The rain feels different under the same umbrella: Experiences with poverty across LGBTQ subgroups

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Population‐based survey data have demonstrated that LGBTQ communities report varying rates of economic insecurity, yet very little research directly assesses how pathways into and experiences with poverty look different among subgroups at the intersections of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).
Bianca D. M. Wilson, Lillian Nguyen
wiley   +1 more source

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