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Stair‐Climbing Wheelchairs for Enhanced Mobility: A Comprehensive Review of Fundamental Mechanisms, Design Concepts, and Performance Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT People with physical disabilities face significant mobility challenges while climbing uneven surfaces and staircases. In these circumstances, traditional wheelchairs do not provide stable, safely controlled mobility, underscoring the importance of building superior stair‐climbing wheelchairs for both medical and infrastructure purposes.
Gopisetti Manikanta   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investor Heterogeneity, Sustainable Board Governance, and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance: Empirical Evidence From Europe

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study applies an agency‐theoretical lens to examine how investor heterogeneity, specifically institutional, foreign, and domestic ownership, influences corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. Drawing on extensions of classical agency theory that account for heterogeneous shareholder preferences and principal‐principal conflicts,
Maximilian Focke
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting Climate‐Friendly Behaviour Under Cognitive and Coordination Constraints: A Multi‐Level Framework for Sustainable Development Governance

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite widespread concern about climate change, climate‐friendly behaviour remains difficult to sustain in practice. This article argues that the core challenge lies less in insufficient motivation than in the cognitive and coordination demands imposed by prevailing decision environments.
Luca Lancini
wiley   +1 more source

From Inner Capacities to Global Outcomes: Social–Emotional Capital as a Driver of SDG Performance

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite unprecedented global commitment to the 2030 Agenda, progress toward the sustainable development goals (SDGs) continues to lag in ways that structural, institutional, and resource‐based explanations do not fully explain. This study argues that a critical missing dimension is human: the psychological and relational capacities that enable
Mohamed Nassar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collateralization of the Body in the Central Sahara: On Forms and Effects

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article tracks a transporter along the route linking Tripoli to the Saharan town of Ghadames in post‐2011 Libya, asking what secures an obligation when the institutions that normally underwrite it (offices, courts, recognized names) have receded. I distinguish the debt, the sum owed, from the security pledged to answer for it: what may be
Moad Musbahi
wiley   +1 more source

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