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Artificial Intelligence‐Driven Development in Rechargeable Battery Materials: Progress, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
AI is transforming the research paradigm of battery materials and reshaping the entire landscape of battery technology. This comprehensive review summarizes the cutting‐edge applications of AI in the advancement of battery materials, underscores the critical challenges faced in harnessing the full potential of AI, and proposes strategic guidance for ...
Qingyun Hu, Junyuan Lu, Jian Hui, Ziyuan Rao, Yang Ren, Hong Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Amalgamation of South Africa’s rural municipalities: is it a good idea?

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2017
The majority of South African municipalities facing the challenges of unemployment, poverty and weak infrastructure are in rural areas. To fulfil their mandate, they depend significantly on financial transfers.
Mkhululi Ncube, Jabulile Monnakgotla
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The Impact of the Covid 19 Crisis on the Fiscal Stability of Republic of Srpska

ECONOMICS, 2022
The consequences of the COVID-19 crisis have had a negative impact on the fiscal stability of Republic of Srpska. Although the crisis is not officially over yet, a large number of countries needed to implement fiscal consolidation.
Gojković Biljana
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The Synergy of Artificial Intelligence and 3D Bioprinting: Unlocking New Frontiers in Precision and Tissue Fabrication

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Advances in integrating artificial intelligence into 3D bioprinting are systematically reviewed here. Machine learning, computer vision, robotics, natural language processing, and expert systems are examined for their roles in optimizing bioprinting parameters, real‐time monitoring, quality control, and predictive maintenance.
Joao Vitor Silva Robazzi, Irem Deniz Derman, Deepak Gupta, Logan Haugh, Yogendra Pratap Singh, Vaibhav Pal, Yasar Ozer Yilmaz, Suihong Liu, Andre Luis Dias, Rogerio Andrade Flauzino, Ibrahim Tarik Ozbolat   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional Materials for Environmental Energy Harvesting in Smart Agriculture via Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores functional and responsive materials for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) in sustainable smart agriculture. It examines how particulate contamination and dirt affect charge transfer and efficiency. Environmental challenges and strategies to enhance durability and responsiveness are outlined, including active functional layers ...
Rafael R. A. Silva, Giulio Fatti, Emanuel Carlos, Guilherme Ferreira, Sumita Goswami, Suman Nandy, Luiz H. C. Mattoso, Elvira Fortunato, Caio G. Otoni, Rodrigo Martins   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implications of fiscal policy on household consumption in Kenya: A nonlinear auto-regressive distributed lag approach

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2022
Orientation: Fiscal policy can be applied with a stabilisation intention if government finance choices can influence household consumption behaviour. According to Keynes, expansionary fiscal policy is the best economic stabilisation tool.
Naomy N. Muindi, Sophia Z.E. Mukorera
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Engineered Interface and Spatial Arrangement of Inorganic Components for Dendrite‐Free Li Anodes in Carbonate‐Based Electrolyte

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A solid‐state ion exchange strategy constructs dentrimental Li2CO3 into a high‐modulus, high‐surface‐energy interface to enable dendrite‐free deposition of Li metal anode in the harsh carbonate‐based electrolyte. Abstract The practical application of lithium metal batteries (LMBs) in carbonate‐based electrolytes is hindered by uncontrolled lithium (Li)
Qiannan Zhao, Kaiqi Zhao, Jae‐Hoon Baek, Ronghua Wang, Chaohe Xu, Jong‐Beom Baek   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy recommendations on tacing and reducing program mismatch and perverse incentives present in earmarking sin tax to tobacco growing areas

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Recognizing that the Philippine 1991 tobacco tax sharing law favoured the development of tobacco, the Sin Tax Law, a separate law on restructuring cigarette tax, expanded the use of such to also cover shifting farmers to viable alternative ...
Madeiline Joy Aloria, Meg Reganon, Jenina Joy Chavez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Engineering Complexity: Advances in 3D Breast Cancer Models for Precision Oncology

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
In vitro breast cancer models that closely mimic the complex biological and cellular interactions within the tumor microenvironment hold strong promise for enhancing our understanding of tumor progression, immune system behavior, and resistance to therapies, which are essential for developing personalized cancer treatments. Abstract Engineered in vitro
Wonwoo Jeong, Sang Jin Lee
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Tax Complexity and Firm Tax Evasion: A Cross-Country Investigation

Economies
This paper endeavours to investigate whether a complex tax system influences firms’ propensity toward tax evasion across countries. To achieve the objectives of this study, we utilised the World Bank Enterprise Survey and the World Bank’s Doing Business ...
Prianto Budi Saptono, Gustofan Mahmud, Fauzilah Salleh, Intan Pratiwi, Dwi Purwanto, Ismail Khozen   +5 more
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