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Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios, Léon Chiriatti, Simon Poppinga, Thomas Speck, Vincent Le Houérou   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography on Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Journal of Islamabad Medical and Dental College, 2020
Background: For Common Bile Duct (CBD) stones an Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is done prior to cholecystectomy. However, the ideal timing of cholecystectomy following ERCP is still a matter of debate. The aim of the present study
Ramlah Ghazanfor, Sara Malik, Maham Tariq, Mehwish Changeez, Javaria Malik, Khawaja Rafay Ghazanfor, Khadija Ghulam, Syed Waqas Hasan, Jahangir Sarwar Khan   +8 more
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Imperial Electioneering: The Evolution of the Election in the Holy Roman Empire from the Collapse of the Carolingians to the Rise of the Ottonians [PDF]

, 2014
The Holy Roman Empire had an electoral process for choosing the Holy Roman Emperor. The heritage of this unique medieval institution can be traced through from Charlemagne empire to the Ottonians.
Gentilucci, Louis T.
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“Will you be there for me?” Social support from family and friends during cold case sexual assault prosecutions

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract If sexual assault survivors report the assault to the criminal legal system, they often need informal support from family and friends throughout the long and frequently retraumatizing process of investigation and prosecution. This study is part of a long‐term community‐based participatory action research project in a predominately Black ...
Rebecca Campbell, Rachael Goodman‐Williams, Katie Gregory, McKenzie Javorka, Jasmine Engleton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The presence of the Holy in the Lilanukarana [PDF]

, 2001
The people of Braj1 are attracted by the Holy in many ways. But nowhere is its attraction per-ceived as strongly as in the public performances of the lilas of Krisna – the lilanukaranas.
Weber, Edmund
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Results and Use of Non-Linear Behavior Between Length and Bond Friction of Fully Grouted Rock Bolts in Selected Jointed Rock Masses

GeoScience Engineering, 2018
The anchor length db of rock bolts is often determined empirically by the insertion of the bond friction constant τb at the grout-rock interface. The relationship between force Fb by limit bond stress and bond length (or bond area) is their ratio. Within
Holý Ondřej
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School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
wiley   +1 more source

Vision of the world in Meister Eckhart’s philosophy [PDF]

Hum, 2016
Many people have dealt with the question of God, as have the entire history of religion and philosophy. Numerous difficulties arise while trying to understand this question.
Ivan Ševo
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall, Yusraa Maryam, Sumeya Loonat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short‐term tactics and long‐term impacts

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From butterflies to lizards and from sharks to seabirds, wildlife exhibit tactics to survive the impacts of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes, cyclones, or typhoons depending on where they occur. Some species seek refuge during the storm by moving, some remain in place and ride it out, and others move longer distances, avoiding the ...
Erin L. Koen, Mohamed Khalil Meliane, Zachery B. Holmes, Karl E. Miller, William J. Barichivich, Emilie Dedeban, Alex Furst, Miranda Imeri, Peyton E. Niebanck, Samantha Nunn, Kailee Pearson, Nicole Rita, Brier Ryver, Dakotah Shaffer, Susan C. Walls, E. Hance Ellington   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source