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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas +6 more
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Horizontal versus Vertical Interdependence in Multinational Activity [PDF]
Recent research in international economics highlights the role of interdependencies of investment decisions and sales of multinational firms. Previous work focused on and provided evidence for aggregate flows or stocks of foreign direct investment ...
Harald Badinger, Peter Egger
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Social capital, political trust and self-reported psychological health: A population-based study.
, 2009 This study investigates the association between political trust (an aspect of institutional trust) in the Riksdag (the national parliament in Sweden) and self-reported psychological health, taking generalized (horizontal) trust in other people into ...
Lindström, Martin, Mohseni, Mohabbat
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Electrochemical etching provides an eco‐friendly alternative to hazardous HF methods for MXene production. This approach facilitates the selective isolation of the A‐layer from MAX phases with tunable surface terminations. Controlling voltage, electrolytes, temperature, and duration enables the optimal structural integrity. Nevertheless, existing scale
Jagdeep Singh +4 more
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Environmental regulation and horizontal mergers in the eco-industry
This paper considers the environmental policy and welfare implications of a merger between environment firms (i.e., firms managing environmental resources or supplying pollution abatement goods and services).
David, Maia +2 more
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Trust and transformation in the water sector in South Africa
, 2005 Water policy under the 1956 Water Act actively discouraged participation and water was managed centrally. The principles enshrined in the National Water Act (no 36 of 1998), designed in line with international sustainable development goals that actively ...
Goldin, Jaqui
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Vertical integration, trust, and information asymmetry in quality grain-bakery chains
Appropriate and reliable governance structures are essential to reduce information asymmetry and strengthen trust in the food supply chains. Stronger integration of chain actors reduces costs due to streamlining information channels and improving ...
Viaggi, Davide +6 more
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Formal-cultural accountability: a [new] paradigm of public accountability
Cogent Social SciencesThis article aims to reveal the formal-cultural accountability model applied in Ciburial Village. A qualitative approach, more specifically, critical ethnography was used through observations, in-depth interviews and documentary studies to achieve the ...
Lilik Purwanti +4 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Coagulative granular hydrogels are composed of packed thrombin‐functionalized microgels that catalyze the conversion of fibrinogen into a secondary fibrin network, filling the interstitial voids. This bio‐inspired approach stabilizes the biomaterial to match the robustness of bulk hydrogels without compromising injectability, mimicking the initial ...
Zhipeng Deng +16 more
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, 2014 Horizontal selling alliances are cooperative efforts between two or more independent sales organizations, at the same level of the value chain, aimed at the joint initiation and maintenance of customer relationships. Marketers faced with complex, uncertain, and rapidly changing environments are increasingly forming these alliances to augment the skills
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