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Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects

open access: yesAdvanced 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   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jihad Dalam Perspektif Al-Qur'an

open access: yesZAD Al-Mufassirin, 2022
The mission of jihad in islam, which is very noble today, is smeared with a misunderstanding of its concept. This paper explains the meaning of jihad in Islam to correct the understanding of some people who are mistaken in understanding the meaning of ...
Darwo Maryono
doaj   +1 more source

School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

open access: yesBritish 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

The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

open access: yesBritish 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anti-Communist Broadcasting and Slovak Catholic Diaspora in the Context of the Post-War Pontificate of Pius XII: Vatican Radio and Radio Free Europe

open access: yesJoMaCC
According to the newest research in the Vatican archives of Pius XII’s post-war pontificate the paper deals with the special role the Slovak post-war emigration played in the creation of anti-Communist strategies of the Holy See in the nascent Cold ...
Katrebová Blehová, Beáta
doaj   +1 more source

Is God a Violent God?

open access: yesTeologisk Tidsskrift, 2017
Does monotheism lead to violence? The article argues that the HB/OT gives different answers. There seems to be such a connection in some of the conquest narratives.
Karl William Weyde
doaj   +1 more source

Holy War: Expansion of the Naqada Culture and State-Building in Egypt

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2022
Archaeological research would make little substantial progress without transcending on occasion the obvious limits of its ‘technical’ routine for the greatest common factor: the genuinely interdisciplinary and all-inclusive domain of palaeopolitics ...
Branislav Anđelković
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesBiological 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   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sensemaking and CSR Character in Multinational Corporations: A Comparative Study of Headquarters and Subsidiary Practices in the UAE

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
wiley   +1 more source

Drugs ::America's holy war /

open access: yes, 2020
From the Publisher: "Using the best scientific evidence, Drugs: America's Holy War explores the impact and cost of America's "War on Drugs"-both in public spending and in human terms.
Benavie, Arthur,
core   +1 more source

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