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Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Implementing soft yet strong and intelligent soft grippers request innovative and creative solutions in designing soft bodies and seamlessly integrating actuated systems with hierarchical sensing. This review systematically analyses soft grippers with a deep understanding of core components, from fundamental design principles to actuation and sensing ...
Haneul Kim   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Structural Dissatisfaction”: Academics on Safari in the Novels of Jennifer Egan

open access: yesOpen Library of Humanities, 2015
Jennifer Egan’s acclaimed 2010 novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, is a text populated by a disproportionately high number of, often unfulfilled, postgraduate researchers: “I’m in the PhD program at Berkeley”, proclaims Mindy; “Joe, who hailed from Kenya
Caroline Edwards
doaj   +2 more sources

THE RETURN OF THE LEECH

open access: yesInternational Journal of Clinical Practice, 2003
SUMMARYMedicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) have been used in medicine for thousands of years to treat a wide range of ailments. Nowadays, leeches are used successfully for only a few conditions, notably in the field of reconstructive or microsurgery, to salvage tissue flaps and skin grafts whose viability is threatened by venous congestion.
A M, Abdelgabar, B K, Bhowmick
openaire   +2 more sources

The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microbiological Leaching of Al from the Waste of Bayer Process by Some Selective Fungi [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, 2009
In present investigation the biological leaching of aluminum by isolated fungi from red mud, the main waste product of the alkaline extraction of Al from bauxite was studied.
Yousef Ghorbani   +2 more
doaj  

Career motivations and perceptions of teaching of 16–19‐year‐olds in England and Wales

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study provides an understanding of career‐related motivations of 16–19‐year‐olds in schools and A‐level colleges in England and Wales. The 672 participants (62% women) were asked to complete a modified version of the Motivations for Career Choice and the Persistence Research in Science and Engineering scales and provide comments on
Sophie Thompson‐Lee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a Phenomenology of Shakespeare’s Sky

open access: yesLinguaculture, 2023
This  paper  begins  with  a  phenomenological  analysis  of  the  sky  as  understood  by  early  modern  beholders  via  its  synonyms:  ‘sky’,  ‘welkin’,  ‘element’,  ‘vault’,  ‘heavens’,  and  ‘firmament’.
John Gillies
doaj  

Genomic insights into an obligate epibiotic bacterial predator: Micavibrio aeruginosavorus ARL-13

open access: yesBMC Genomics, 2011
Background Although bacterial predators play important roles in the dynamics of natural microbial communities, little is known about the molecular mechanism of bacterial predation and the evolution of diverse predatory lifestyles.
Wu Martin, Kadouri Daniel E, Wang Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

The Leeches of Japan

open access: yesJournal of Cell Science, 1886
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
openaire   +2 more sources

The costs of extra‐pair behaviours in birds

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Extra‐pair behaviours – reproductive behaviours, including those related to copulation and paternity of offspring, amongst animals outside of a social pair bond – have long intrigued behavioural ecologists, particularly from the female animal's perspective.
Jørgen S. Søraker, Jamie Dunning
wiley   +1 more source

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