Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.The article overviews past and current efforts on caloric materials and systems, highlighting the contributions of Ames National Laboratory to the field. Solid‐state caloric heat pumping is an innovative method that can be implemented in a wide range of cooling and heating applications.
Agata Czernuszewicz +5 more
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Intermediate Volatility Forecasts Using Implied Forward Volatility: The Performance of Selected Agricultural Commodity Options [PDF]
Options with different maturities can be used to generate an implied forward volatility, a volatility forecast for non-overlapping future time intervals.
Egelkraut, Thorsten M., Garcia, Philip
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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review highlights the principle mechanisms of slipping at the microscale, linking contact mechanics with a friction behavior model for surface interfaces. Main strategies to develop anti‐slip properties to the surfaces are discussed alongside standardized testing approaches.
Sogand Abbaspoor‐Zanjani +3 more
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Ductility Tuning via Cluster Network Characteristics of Porous Components
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Network optimization via cluster characteristics induced by interaction of stress concentration is proposed, demonstrating increased cluster size and dispersion in non‐uniform porous components. The optimized structures exhibit, for the first time, that enhanced ductility and damage progression is controllable through zigzag cluster network designed by
Ryota Toyoba +4 more
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Price volatility forecasts for agricultural commodities:an application of volatility models,option implieds and composite approaches forfutures prices of corn and wheat [PDF]
There has been substantial research effort aimed to forecast futures price return volatilities of financial and commodity assets. Some part of this research focuses on the performance of time-series models (in particular ARCH models) versus option ...
Benavides, Guillermo
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Respiratory Signal Processing and Analysis Using Flexible Capacitive Sensor Data
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Capacitive pressure sensors based on poly(glycerol sebacate) (PGS) substrates are developed for continuous, non‐invasive respiratory monitoring. Integrated with a signal processing algorithm, they enable accurate tracking of thoracic expansion and retraction.
Bernardo A. Vicente +3 more
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Accurate Yield Curve Scenarios Generation using Functional Gradient Descent [PDF]
We propose a multivariate nonparametric technique for generating reliable historical yield curve scenarios and confidence intervals. The approach is based on a Functional Gradient Descent (FGD) estimation of the conditional mean vector and volatility ...
Fabio Trojani, Francesco Audrino
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Maize price volatility and on-farm storage in Burkina Faso [PDF]
, 2014 The role of grain storage by inventory holders or government agencies in managing price volatility has received a great deal of attention. But the role of on-farm storage on price volatility is not so richly documented, in spite of its importance in ...
Le Cotty, Tristan +1 more
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Recent Advances of Slip Sensors for Smart Robotics
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review summarizes recent progress in robotic slip sensors across mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, magnetic, and acoustic mechanisms, offering a comprehensive reference for the selection of slip sensors in robotic applications. In addition, current challenges and emerging trends are identified to advance the development of robust, adaptive,
Xingyu Zhang +8 more
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The impact of market sentiment and trading volume on short-term stock volatility—empirical evidence from China’s A-share market [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesUtilizing monthly data from China’s A-share market from 2007 to 2023, this study employs the number of newly opened investor accounts to measure market sentiment and the number of trades to represent trading volume.
Xie Boning
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