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Hidden costs of a thriving Yellow River: Severe groundwater depletion
Geography and SustainabilityGroundwater storage (GWS) is essential for supporting agricultural irrigation and revegetation in the water-scarce Yellow River Basin (YRB). Early studies have mainly focused on the impacts of revegetation on GWS, and rarely consider the influences of ...
Mengzhu Liu +6 more
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Cost management in the conditions of the actual world financial crisis [PDF]
In this article we outlined the importance of the costs of providing the necessary information to the management in order to take the best decisions in crisis conditions.
Eliza Ştefania BANA, Florin SGARDEA
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Team building and hidden costs of control [PDF]
, 2012 This paper investigates the interaction of intrinsic and extrinsic incentives. We propose a simple principal-agent model with control that incorporates the existence of social groups resulting from common experiences in the past.
Riener, Gerhard, Wiederhold, Simon
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Learning Highly Dynamic Skills Transition for Quadruped Jumping Through Constrained Space
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A quadruped robot masters dynamic jumps through constrained spaces with animal‐inspired moves and intelligent vision control. This hierarchical learning approach combines imitation of biological agility with real‐time trajectory planning. Although legged animals are capable of performing explosive motions while traversing confined spaces, replicating ...
Zeren Luo +6 more
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Hard‐Magnetic Soft Millirobots in Underactuated Systems
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review provides a comprehensive overview of hard‐magnetic soft millirobots in underactuated systems. It examines key advances in structural design, physics‐informed modeling, and control strategies, while highlighting the interplay among these domains.
Qiong Wang +4 more
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The hidden burden of the income tax: Compliance costs of German individuals [PDF]
We analyze the compliance costs of individual taxpyers resulting from the German income tax. using survey data that has been raised between December 2008 and April 2009, we find evidence for a considerably higher cost burden of self-employed taxpaxers ...
Blaufus, Kay +2 more
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The True Cost of Poor Sanitation [PDF]
, 2016 New research in this report, building on pioneering work from the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Programme, underscores the hidden costs of poor sanitation. Death and disease are tearing families apart.
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Robots can learn manipulation tasks from human demonstrations. This work proposes a versatile method to identify the physical interactions that occur in a demonstration, such as sequences of different contacts and interactions with mechanical constraints.
Alex Harm Gert‐Jan Overbeek +3 more
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Public subsidies for private purposes [PDF]
A discussion of the use of municipal debt issues to fund publicly supported stadiums, focusing on the role of federal tax exemption as a hidden subsidy in reducing local funding costs and on the rationale for seeking public subsidies of private, local ...
William P. Osterberg
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TacScope: A Miniaturized Vision‐Based Tactile Sensor for Surgical Applications
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.TacScope is a compact, vision‐based tactile sensor designed for robot‐assisted surgery. By leveraging a curved elastomer surface with pressure‐sensitive particle redistribution, it captures high‐resolution 3D tactile feedback. TacScope enables accurate tumor detection and shape classification beneath soft tissue phantoms, offering a scalable, low‐cost ...
Md Rakibul Islam Prince +3 more
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