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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
wiley   +1 more source

India, China and the China+1 Strategy: Trade, Investment and Policymaking in a Fragmented World

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT COVID‐19 and geopolitical tensions have compelled global firms to diversify parts of their operations to other countries. Although India looks primed to gain from this ‘China+1’, the authors' research, including interviews with 50 executives, officials and experts across India, America, Europe and Singapore, paints a more cautious picture ...
P. S. Srinivas, Frank N. Pieke, Alfred Schipke   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intelligent kinematic physics engine construction for hyper-redundant cable-driven flexible manipulator. [PDF]

PLoS One
Wang S, Wang P, Wang X, Chen S, Liu M.
europepmc   +1 more source

What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
wiley   +1 more source

Progress-driven sampling and multi-channel extension for bidirectional manipulator path planning in constrained environments. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Xu D, Xu H, Ju J, Liu Y, Zhou Q, Qian L, Xie SQ.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Novel Collision-Free Homotopy Path Planning for Planar Robotic Arms. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2022
Velez-Lopez GC, Vazquez-Leal H, Hernandez-Martinez L, Sarmiento-Reyes A, Diaz-Arango G, Huerta-Chua J, Rico-Aniles HD, Jimenez-Fernandez VM.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

RBF neural network based shape control of hyper-redundant with constrained end-effector

, 2006
Hyper-redundant manipulator has more degrees of freedom than the least necessary to perform a given task, thus it has the features of overcoming conventional industrial robot's limitation to carry out a designated difficult task. When the manipulator
Liu JG(刘金国), Ma SG(马书根), Wang YC(王越超), Li B(李斌)   +3 more
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Can citizen election observation increase public confidence in US elections?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Nonpartisan citizen election observation plays an important role in promoting the credibility of electoral processes around the world. This article assesses whether nonpartisan observation can shape attitudes among the US public, randomizing information about nonpartisan domestic observers in a series of survey experiments fielded to nearly 10,
Jennie Barker, Oren Samet, Susan D. Hyde
wiley   +1 more source

Pose Stabilization Control for Base of Combined System Using Feedforward Compensation PD Control During Target Satellite Transposition. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Hu Z, Yang J, Xu W, Chen H, Xu L, Meng D.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mobile Manipulators in Industry 4.0: A Review of Developments for Industrial Applications. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2023
Ghodsian N, Benfriha K, Olabi A, Gopinath V, Arnou A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source