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Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong, You Zhou, Qingxiu Li, Wenyu Zhao, Sunyingyue Geng, Hangfei Li, Yan‐Bing Leng, Shirui Zhu, Guanglong Ding, Yongbiao Zhai, Ziyu Lv, Ye Zhou, Su‐Ting Han   +12 more
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Democratic Hopes in the Polycentric City [PDF]

, 2004
The polycentric model of municipal governance suggests that multiple jurisdictions may approximate an efficient market for local public services: citizens move to jurisdictions offering services they value at tax rates they are willing and able to pay ...
King, Loren
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Functional Metal Complexes for Solar–Light‐Driven Energy Conversion

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review provides an exhaustive summary of the recent advancements of functional metal complexes in solar‐to‐electrical, ‐chemical, and ‐thermal energy conversion, comprising material categories, design strategies, underlying principles of operation, and identified improvement of performances.
Yanyan Qin, Dou Luo, Miao Zhang, Wai‐Yeung Wong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collective Competence as an Enabler for Service Integration in Health and Social Care Services

Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2022
Therese Dwyer Løken, Marit Kristine Helgesen, Catharina Bjørkquist Faculty of Health, Welfare and Organisation, Østfold University College, Halden, NorwayCorrespondence: Therese Dwyer Løken, Østfold University College, Post Box 700, Halden, 1757, Norway,
Løken TD, Helgesen MK, Bjørkquist C
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The quality of state and municipal services provision in the field of entrepreneurship

Вестник Майкопского государственного технологического университета, 2023
The article discusses providing state and municipal services in the assessment of entrepreneurs in the region. Monitoring data “Assessment of citizens' satisfaction with the quality of state and municipal services in the Republic of Kalmykia”, has been ...
Anastasia Borisovna Khashaeva
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Municipal services: organisations, companies and alternatives [PDF]

, 2008
A review of the impact of international institutions and multinational companies on municipal services worldwide, and of campaigns for ...
Hall, David, Lethbridge, Jane
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Positively Charged Polymer‐Brush MOFs for Large‐Area, Pressure‐Resistant Gas Separation Membranes

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A universal POPA strategy enables positively charged polymer‐brush MOFs with self‐adaptive interfacial interlocking to resist aggregation under fast processing. This design ensures seamless dispersion within large‐area selective layers, achieving 1 m‐wide roll‐to‐roll fabrication of pressure‐resistant MMCMs with tunable CO2 separation performance ...
Yi Yang, Ye Yuan, Yuxiu Sun, Fei Shi, Chenyang Song, Weifan Wang, Qinghua Li, Menglong Sheng, Zhihua Qiao, Jingwei Hou, Anthony K. Cheetham, Zhi Wang   +11 more
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Measuring the efficiency in Spanish municipal refuse collection services [PDF]

, 1999
The objective of this study is to analyse the technical or productive efficiency of the refuse collection services in 75 municipalities located in the Spanish region of Catalonia. The analysis has been carried out using various techniques.
Bosch Roca, Núria, Pedraja, Francisco, 1958-, Suárez Pandiello, Javier   +2 more
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Highly Resolved Community Sewage Metagenomics Unveiling Landscape and Transmission Patterns of Antibiotic Resistome in Hong Kong Populations

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A large‐scale, high‐resolution antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance in Hong Kong community sewage combining short‐ and long‐read sequencing. The resistome profile is comprehensively characterized, and this upstream sampling strategy demonstrated superiority in reflecting the human gut resistome.
Jiahui Ding, Mengying Wang, Xiaoqing Xu, Dou Wang, Xi Chen, Shuxian Li, Xiawan Zheng, You Che, Yu Deng, Tommy T. Y. Lam, Liguan Li, Tong Zhang   +11 more
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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