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Recent advances in multifunctional soft robots: A materials–structures–systems co‐design perspective for synergistic integration

open access: yesFlexMat, EarlyView.
Abstract Soft robots, engineered from highly compliant materials, offer superior adaptability and safety in unstructured environments compared to their rigid counterparts. Recent advancements, fueled by bio‐inspiration and material programmability, have led to the rapid co‐evolution of their core modules: actuation, sensing, protection, energy, and ...
Qiulei Liu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Education in the Shadow of War: Turkish Naval School during the First World War

open access: yesYakın Dönem Türkiye Araştırmaları
The First World War, one of the largest global conflicts, was fought between the Central Powers and the Allied Powers from 1914 to 1918. The war significantly disrupted education and training processes across various sectors.
Mehmet Korkmaz
doaj   +1 more source

Plany rozbudowy fortyfikacyjnej w ramach Frontu Mazowieckiego wobec zagrożenia niemieckiego z Prus Wschodnich w 1919 r.

open access: yesKlio, 2020
In the military nomenclature, the area of northern Mazovia was referred to as "Mazovian theater". This concept was introduced after the First World War by the Supreme Command of the Polish Army.
Wiesław Bolesław Łach
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Special Interrogation Report: Brigadefuhrer Kurt Meyer Command, 12th SS Panzer Division (6 June-25 August 1944) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Brigadefuhrer Kurt Meyer remains a controversial figure in Canadian military history. As a commander of Waffen-SS troops in Normandy, he fought the Canadians in the days and weeks after the Allied landings and allegedly ordered the killing of prisoners ...
Anonymous
core   +1 more source

Financial Development Under Economic Sanctions: Short‐Run Market Responses and Long‐Run Institutional Adjustment

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how the financial development of the target economy evolves under the long‐lasting economic sanctions, emphasizing the temporal patterns of the impact. Using panel data for 136 economies from 1980 to 2021 and an event‐study approach, we identified a temporal pattern that illustrates how economic sanctions exert a ...
Yu Jiang, Xue Meng
wiley   +1 more source

TERRORISM AND PRIVATIZATION OF STATE SPACES IN THE SAHEL: CASE OF THE POLISARIO FRONT [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Universitară de Sociologie, 2021
For several decades, the Sahel (Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Nigeria) has been at the heart of global insecurity. Several illicit trafficking activities are taking place there (drug and fuel trafficking, human trafficking, arms sales), encouraged by ...
Alphonse Zozime TAMEKAMTA
doaj  

A Divided Front: Military Dissent During the Vietnam War

open access: yes, 2017
Emerging from a triumphant victory in World War Two, American patriotism surged in the 1950s. Positive images in theater and literature of America’s potential to bring peace and prosperity to a grateful Asia fueled the notion that the United States could
Sawyer, Kaylyn L.
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“Of Pure European Descent and of the White Race”: Recruitment Policy and Aboriginal Canadians, 1939–1945 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
According to the records of the Indian Affairs Branch, just over 3,000 Status Indians voluntarily enlisted in the military forces of Canada during the Second World War. Of these, 213 were killed.
Sheffield, R. Scott
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Understanding Autistic Young Adults' Perceptions and Experiences of Traumatic and Stressful Events

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 81, Issue 6, Page 445-461, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives The aim of this study was to explore how young autistic adults experience and respond to stressful life events, and the relationship between autistic characteristics and symptoms of stress associated with these events. Methods Using an exploratory sequential mixed‐methods approach, an online qualitative survey was first administered
Alliyza Lim, Robyn L. Young
wiley   +1 more source

From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa

open access: yesJournal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
wiley   +1 more source

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