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Recent advances in multifunctional soft robots: A materials–structures–systems co‐design perspective for synergistic integration

open access: yesFlexMat, EarlyView.
Abstract Soft robots, engineered from highly compliant materials, offer superior adaptability and safety in unstructured environments compared to their rigid counterparts. Recent advancements, fueled by bio‐inspiration and material programmability, have led to the rapid co‐evolution of their core modules: actuation, sensing, protection, energy, and ...
Qiulei Liu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A new species of Trite Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Zealand, with remarks on Trite relationships and radiation [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2017
A species known from earlier behavioural studies as “Holoplatys sp.”, is described as Trite pollardi sp. nov. Within the genus Trite, two species groups are distinguished: the planiceps-group (found in New Caledonia, New Zealand, Lord Howe Island and ...
Barbara Patoleta, Marek Żabka
doaj   +2 more sources

Deliberate Practice Supervision to Enhance the Effectiveness of Behavioral Activation for Depression: A Case Study

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 81, Issue 6, Page 526-537, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Deliberate Practice (DP) is a model of behavioral skill acquisition structured by several key tasks. The past decade has shown a consistent growth in interest in this form of learning for psychotherapy skills, with promising research suggesting DP training is superior to traditional learning methods of psychotherapy. This paper presents a case
Dan Sacks
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the toll of childhood socioeconomic disadvantage on adolescent mental health in three UK cohorts

open access: yesJCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Low socioeconomic position (SEP) in childhood is robustly associated with adolescent mental health difficulties, yet this relationship is changing over time due to contextual and conceptual differences in these constructs. Consistent SEP and mental health data from different cohorts are required to understand changes over time ...
Caitlyn Rawers   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sexual selection driving diversification in jumping spiders [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002
Theory predicts that speciation rates should be accelerated in organisms undergoing sexual selection. In systems involving female choice, sexual selection acts directly on traits that may be important in prezygotic reproductive isolation, potentially fostering rapid divergence of such traits among allopatric populations.
Susan E, Masta, Wayne P, Maddison
openaire   +2 more sources

How can children and young people have a voice in urban treescapes?

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Scientific understanding of climate change has, to date, failed to result in sufficient action. This paper proposes that a deficit model of top‐down learning and dissemination in relation to public engagement with science may be part of the problem, particularly when considering the attitudes, values and empowerment of children and young ...
Simon Carr   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

First report of Psecas euoplus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 from Colombia, with new salticid records for the department of Córdoba (Araneae, Salticidae) [PDF]

open access: yesCheck List
Psecas euoplus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 is recorded for the first time from Colombia. In addition, the known distribution of the species Lyssomanes amazonicus G.W. Peckham, E.G. Peckham & Wheeler, 1889, Lyssomanes bitaeniatus G.W.
Leiner A. Suárez-Martínez   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

CARDBOARD SHELTERS AS A TOOL FOR SUPPORTING BENEFICIAL INVERTEBATE PREDATORS IN APPLE ORCHARDS

open access: yesVědecké Práce Ovocnářské
This study focuses on the use of cardboard shelters in the apple orchard to support key predators, primarily spiders and earwigs. The use of shelters was assessed over two years, with seasonal changes in their occupancy by spiders (Araneae) and the ...
Jana Niedobová   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
wiley   +1 more source

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