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Hydrogel Confinement Strategies for 3D Cell Culture in Microfluidic Systems
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Hydrogel confinement structures are key to organizing 3D cell cultures in microfluidic devices. This review classifies five structural strategies (micropillar, phaseguide, porous membrane, stepped‐height, and support‐free) and examines their trade‐offs alongside fabrication methods.
Soohyun Kim, Min Seok Lee, Sung Kyun Lee
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Precarious Work: How Temporary Jobs and Subcontracting Undermine Women, Migrants, and All Workers’ Rights to Decent Work Worldwide [PDF]
, 2009 This document provides a number of case studies of US corporations’ use of precarious and contract labor to weaken unions and cut costs. Also describes the effects of these practices on the working conditions and labor rights of women and ...
International Labor Rights Forum
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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review highlights the principle mechanisms of slipping at the microscale, linking contact mechanics with a friction behavior model for surface interfaces. Main strategies to develop anti‐slip properties to the surfaces are discussed alongside standardized testing approaches.
Sogand Abbaspoor‐Zanjani +3 more
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Flexible Sensor‐Based Human–Machine Interfaces with AI Integration for Medical Robotics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review explores how flexible sensing technology and artificial intelligence (AI) significantly enhance human–machine interfaces in medical robotics. It highlights key sensing mechanisms, AI‐driven advancements, and applications in prosthetics, exoskeletons, and surgical robotics.
Yuxiao Wang +5 more
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Your Valentine’s Day Chocolate: The Sweet and the Bitter [PDF]
, 2007 This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
International Labor Rights Forum
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The Marching Priest: The Civil Rights and Labor Activism of Father Sherrill Smith during the 1950s and 1960s [PDF]
, 2021 Mark Newman
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Multi‐Material Additive Manufacturing of Soft Robotic Systems: A Comprehensive Review
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review explores the transformative role of multi‐material additive manufacturing (MMAM) in the development of soft robotic systems. It presents current techniques, materials, and design strategies that enable functionally graded and adaptive structures.
Ritik Raj +2 more
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Invisible Labor, Invisible Rights
Columbia Journal of Gender and LawImmigrant women of color have long formed the backbone of the American domestic workforce, and in the past few decades, they have been increasingly stepping in to fill the country’s deepening childcare crisis. While scholars have examined the racialized, gendered, and classed dimensions of domestic labor and the transnational “global nanny chain,” far ...
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Rosemary’s Story: Fired for being pregnant [PDF]
, 2009 This story is part of ILRF’s Mothers’ Stories series, which highlights a working mother around the world every day before Mother’s Day. Rosemary is an agricultural worker in Peru who was fired on February 5, 2007 for being pregnant.
International Labor Rights Forum
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