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Jointless Tongue‐Like Bioactuator for Multidirectional Motion Through Directional Electrical Stimulation

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A tongue‐like bioactuator is developed using orthogonally aligned cultured skeletal muscle tissues. By applying directional electrical stimulation of varying strengths, the actuator achieves jointless, multidirectional movements. The device features a fully soft, skeleton‐free design, enabling biomimetic deformation and functional actuation, and offers
Xuankai Gao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Import procedures for timber to the European Union : options for streamlining procedures for legal timber [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This report provides a description of the institutions involved in timber import and an overview of import procedures and related documents in the Netherlands in the framework of the European Union Action Plan for Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and ...
Kamphuis, B.M., Verwaart, D.
core   +1 more source

Diatom‐Inspired 1D Immobile Robots Capable of 2D Collective Mobility

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents a diatom‐inspired robotic system that explores group coordination through limited physical interactions. The researchers tune groups of Barbots, simple robotic agents that possess neither individual mobility nor explicit communication capabilities, to achieve complex and adaptive collaboration based on environmental light.
Tianyi Hu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A multicriteria analysis of stated preferences among freight transport alternatives [PDF]

open access: yes
Stated preferences data can be of different types: choice data, rankings or ratings. In all cases, these data can be used in different ways as inputs of econometric discrete choice models.
Christophe Bouffioux   +2 more
core  

Freight forwarder işletmelerinde müşteri memnuniyetinin araştırılması; İstanbul ilinde mevcut freight forwarder müşterileri üzerine bir uygulama

open access: yes, 2021
Logistics, goods and services are national and is the line that plans and organizes the delivery of the international platform to the customers in the fastest and reliable manner. With this feature, logistics activities has become a very important concept for the enterprises and it has been seen that it gives great advantages to the businesses if they ...
openaire   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

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