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AFM‐based nanomechanical mapping and mechanobiology, two unforeseen fields that have lifted each other up

Journal of Microscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract AFM is not for the faint of heart. It has never been for these 40 years since its invention or for any of the modalities that have emerged. And among them, the initial concept of using AFM to measure cell mechanics was simply brazen. On the one hand, those pioneers hacked an imaging tool optimised for minimal mechanical interaction between ...
Núria Gavara
wiley   +1 more source

The calculation of warping spools of warp-knitting machines

Trudy Odesskogo Politehničeskogo Universiteta, 2014
The paper is devoted to the development of scientific bases of the knitting machine design, in particular, to the calculation of warping spools of warp-knitting machines.
Віталій Васильович Чабан, Борис Федорович Піпа   +1 more
doaj  

Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
wiley   +1 more source

[Woman using a knitting machine, 4]

, 2004
Photograph of a woman using a knitting machine at UNT's Scoular ...

core   +1 more source

Shaping the System Through Turbulence: Strategic Leadership and the Micro‐Foundations of Ecosystem Orchestration in Times of Disruption

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract While research on ecosystems and their orchestration has grown rapidly, we still know little about how individual strategic leaders may mobilize ecosystemic action in times of disruption. This article addresses this gap by drawing on an in‐depth case study of the Antwerp Square Mile, the world’s oldest and most renowned diamond trading ...
Bart De Keyser, Koen Vandenbempt
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

Polymer-Driven and Hybrid Actuation Fabrics: Integrating Responsive Polymeric Materials and Hierarchical Textile Architectures. [PDF]

Polymers (Basel)
He W, Yu R, Fei B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Re‐Imagining Regulatory Governance

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper invites the readers to rethink regulatory governance by examining how trust‐based and rule‐based governance interact. To do this, it uses analytical narratives of three fictional polities: “Trustland”, “Regland”, and “Concordia”. Each polity represents a stylized model of governance: Trustland is anchored in trust‐based governance ...
David Levi‐Faur
wiley   +1 more source

Multimodal semantic learning for early fault diagnosis in warp knitting machines via masked fault modeling. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Gao W, Shi H, Li D, Liu Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Analysing Island Change Through Infrastructures of Social Reproduction

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores through a case study of Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, how the expansion of an urban environment that seemingly should accommodate women's everyday lives continues to be shaped by gendered challenges. Based on 13 life history interviews with elderly female residents, the analysis shows that (i) urban change is constituted by ...
Sissal Dahl, Leonieke Bolderman
wiley   +1 more source