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Action now concerning factory fire in Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2000 The Clean Clothes Campaign reports one of many factory fires in Bangladesh, which killed 53 people. The CCC proposes that every organization ask what the retailers in their country plan to do in Bangladesh to ensure better working ...
Clean Clothes Campaign
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Moth‐Wing‐Inspired Multifunctional Metamaterials
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This study develops a moth‐wing‐inspired heterogeneous metamaterial that achieves synergistic broadband sound absorption, mechanical energy dissipation, and thermal insulation within a lightweight architected framework. Combining bioinspired gradient design, genetic‐algorithm optimization, and additive manufacturing, the bionic heterogeneous acoustic ...
Haoran Pei +12 more
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A new flame‐based colour space for efficient fire detection
IET Image ProcessingComputer vision‐based fire detection algorithms have been extensively researched over the past decades as they offer reliable and efficient solutions to early fire detection, as well as economical solutions in outdoor environments.
Oluwarotimi Giwa, Abdsamad Benkrid
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“Always Ready for any Sticky Job”: The Canadian Corps of (Civilian) Firefighters in the Second World War [PDF]
, 2012 The Canadian Corps of (Civilian) Firefighters was created. In 1942 to assist the British National Fire Service (NFS) in fighting fires caused by German bombings.
Hart, Keith
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Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Neuromorphic Devices and Applications
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Organic electrochemical transistors are emerging as promising platforms for neuromorphic devices that emulate neuronal and synaptic activities and can seamlessly integrate with biological systems. This review focuses on resultant organic artificial neurons, synapses, and integrated devices, with an emphasis on their ability to perform neuromorphic ...
Kexin Xiang +4 more
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Near-critical percolation with heavy-tailed impurities, forest fires and frozen percolation [PDF]
, 2018 Consider critical site percolation on a "nice" planar lattice: each vertex is occupied with probability $p = p_c$, and vacant with probability $1 - p_c$.
Berg, Jacob van den, Nolin, Pierre
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Recent Advances in Collective Behaviors of Micro/Nanomotor Swarms
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This review describes the driving forces behind collective motion, explores the self‐organization of micro/nano swarms across zero‐dimensional (0D), one‐dimensional (1D), two‐dimensional (2D), and three‐dimensional (3D) spaces, and highlights their potential in drug delivery, environmental monitoring, and smart devices.
Siwen Sun +4 more
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Tuning Pore Size in Porous Graphene Membrane for O2/N2 Separation
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Single‐layer graphene membranes featuring N‐functionalized, 0D pores offer a promising platform for O2/N2 separation. The heterogeneity of functional groups at the pore edge is dynamically tunable, enabling precise tuning of the pore limiting diameter and gas transport.
Kuang‐Jung Hsu +5 more
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