Gender mainstreaming and EU climate change policy [PDF]
This article uses feminist institutionalism to examine how gender mainstreaming has been sidelined in European Union (EU) climate change policy. It finds that, with a few exceptions largely emanating from the European Parliament's Committee on Women's ...
Allwood, G
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Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges
This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder +3 more
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Convergence or divergence of the European Union’s energy strategy in the Central European countries? [PDF]
Even though there is no common energy policy, EU energy strategy sets the background of the energy landscape in Europe. EU energy policy responds to different challenges in the energy market. One of them is climate change.
Grażyna WOJTKOWSKA-ŁODEJ +1 more
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Unleashing Competition in EU Business Services. CEPS Policy Brief No. 284, 24 September 2012 [PDF]
In most EU member states, the business services industry has booked no productivity growth during the last two decades. The industry’s performance in the other member states was weaker than that of its US counterparts.
Kox, Henk
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Continuum Robots in Surgery: From Engineering Design to Clinical Practice
The hyper‐redundant nature of continuum robot structures enables near‐infinite degrees of freedom leading to immense potential for medical applications. This review provides a historical background of continuum robots and novel ideas shaping their progress to current structural design, sensing technology, modeling techniques, and control methods.
Griffin Smith +6 more
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Public domain government report re-posted as part of an Institutional Repository collection to aggregate energy policy.This Energy Policy Paper highlights the energy situation during the period 1988 1992, and the projections for the period 1994 2004.
National Energy Policy Committee
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Autonomous Navigation of Pollen‐Inspired Magnetic Microrobots for Biomedical Applications
A sunflower pollen‐inspired magnetic microrobot enables controlled rolling navigation in vessel‐like environments. Its open geometry reduces hydrodynamic drag, while vision‐based closed‐loop control, shortest‐path planning, and reinforcement learning support target‐reaching and maze navigation with microrobot‐scale accuracy, highlighting a route toward
Ali Anil Demircali +6 more
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A Guide to EU Renewable Energy Policy [PDF]
The European Union’s renewable energy policy is one of the most ambitious attempts to facilitate a transition towards more sustainable energy systems. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the policy and its implementation. It contains key case studies for understanding how member states have shaped the policy; how the EU has affected the ...
openaire +2 more sources
The Global Energy Market: Comprehensive Strategies to Meet Geopolitical and Financial Risks—the G8, Energy Security, and Global Climate Issues [PDF]
A study of ongoing threats to energy markets with policy recommendations to safeguard transparent and open global energy ...
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
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Flexible Sensors for Robotics Tactile Perception: A Review
Flexible tactile sensing for robotics is reviewed through four interconnected dimensions. Physical mechanisms include piezoresistive, capacitive, piezoelectric, triboelectric, iontronic, and optical sensing. Structural design includes bioinspired, defect‐based, and MEMS‐based tactile systems.
Yu Song, Ying Chen, Yihao Chen, Xue Feng
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