Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A novel soft robotic propeller overcomes traditional efficiency‐flexibility tradeoffs via a hybrid pneumatic‐cable actuation strategy. This architecture enables active stiffness modulation with dual‐mode locomotion: tunable biomimetic swimming and earthworm‐inspired wriggling for confined spaces.
Jiazi Geng +6 more
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LAND LEASE MARKETS AND AGRICULTURAL EFFICIENCY: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM ETHIOPIA [PDF]
This paper develops a theoretical model of land leasing that includes transaction costs of enforcing labor effort, risk pooling motives and non-tradable capital inputs.
Fafchamps, Marcel, Pender, John L.
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Comparative analysis of marginal profit between da Vinci SP and multi-port systems in colorectal cancer surgery: a single-center descriptive cost-accounting study. [PDF]
J Robot SurgDeguchi K, Hirano Y.
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Interpretable Short‐Term Electric Load Forecasting
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A temporal fusion transformer is implemented to generate day‐ahead forecasts of the hourly electrical load of a departmentbuilding at an Italian university. A forecasting performance improvement of more than 25% compared with established benchmark models and a provision of inherent robust interpretability insights reveal the potential of this model for
Alessandro Nicola +6 more
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A spatiotemporal dataset of farmland rent aligned with farming seasons across China 2021-2025. [PDF]
Sci DataXing Q, Zhu S, Zhu D, Wang J.
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Energy‐Aware Perturbation Optimization for Memristor‐Array Convolutional Neural Networks
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Memristor‐array inference becomes more energy efficient when layer inputs are reshaped before computation. Sinusoidal perturbation encoding with dual‐threshold screening reduces active voltage pulses and contracts ADC input‐current ranges, jointly lowering crossbar and peripheral energy while preserving accuracy across hardware MNIST validation, deep ...
Ao Xu +6 more
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Financial precarity and mental health among French health students: a nationwide cross-sectional study. [PDF]
BMJ OpenTavolacci MP +5 more
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Continuous and Large‐Scale: ELEANOR, the Soft Architected Arm Inspired by the Elephant Trunk
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A large‐scale, architected continuum robot inspired by the macroscopic properties of the African elephant trunk achieves adaptive elephant‐like movements and whole‐body grasping. The results demonstrate that designing from the natural system’s macroscopic properties, rather than prescribing behaviors, provides a powerful strategy for developing ...
Giovanna A. Naselli +8 more
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Paying in the dark: third-party administrator fees and the limits of employer cost control in self-insured health plans. [PDF]
Health Aff SchButtorff C +4 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This work presents an inchworm‐like dual‐balloon‐assisted colonoscopic robot (IDCR) based on a rod‐driven two‐segment continuum section. The IDCR enables the active straightening of the sigmoid colon through an inchworm‐like locomotion strategy, thereby avoiding loop formation.
Dezhi Song +4 more
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