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Enabling Real‐Time Shape‐Sensing in Soft Robots via a Miniaturized, Single‐Signal, Color‐Tuned Soft Optical Sensor

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A miniaturized soft optical sensor that uses thin film color tuning enables real‐time 3D shape‐sensing from a single red–green–blue (RGB) signal. When integrated into a soft robot, it enables closed‐loop control and autonomous navigation in a phantom lung environment without the need for onboard electronics, achieving sub‐millimeter accuracy through ...
Frank Juliá Wise   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discussion on the Principles of Formation of Fundamental Structures of the UN during the Creation of the Organization

open access: yesУправленческое консультирование, 2018
The article covers the negotiation process between USSR, USA and UK representatives during Dumbarton Oaks and Yalta (Crimean) conferences. The decisions made on these conferences led to the establishment of the core element of the post-war international ...
Dmitry Guennadievich Novik
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Democratization, New Leaders, and the Need for Economic Reform: Can Preferential Trading Agreements Help? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Can international institutions help leaders commit economic reform? In this article, we examine how leaders use preferential trading agreements with major powers (European Union and the United States) to promote liberal economic policies. We argue that
Baccini, Leonardo, Urpelainen, Johannes
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Warsaw, Town of and International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 264 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In the Matter of Impasse in Negotiations between TOWN OF WARSAW and INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL 264 (WARSAW HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT). PERB Case M2006-282. Edward A.
Schmidt, Edward A.
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Factors Driving Battery and Solar Purchase Decision of Residents: a Behavioural Choice Experiment Using a Hybrid Discrete Choice and Latent Variable Model

open access: yesAdvanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.
This article explores what drives households to adopt solar PV and battery systems in South East Queensland. Using hybrid discrete choice experiments, it reveals distinct adopter profiles and highlights cost, system size, and energy independence as key motivators.
Mohammad Alipour   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE CHALLENGES OF THE NEXT EUROPEAN UNION ENLARGEMENT [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2011
After nearly six decades of evolution marked by five successive waves of enlargement, today's EU with 27 Member States, totaling a population of close 500 million people, is a prosperous and powerful entity that exercises a growing influence on the ...
DAN VATAMAN
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Auctions vs negotiations in public procurement: which works better? [PDF]

open access: yes
Public agencies rely on two key modes to procure goods and services: auctions and direct negotiations. The relative advantages of these two modes are still imperfectly understood.
Armin Schmutzler, Rafael Lalive
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Gut Microbiota‐Derived Anandamide Mediates the Therapeutic Effects of Urolithin A on Alcohol‐Induced Cognitive and Social Dysfunction via CB1R‐DRD2‐RAP1 Signaling Axis

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This study reveals that Urolithin A (UA) counteracts alcohol‐induced cognitive and social dysfunction (AICSD) via a gut microbiome‐dependent mechanism. UA‐enriched Bacteroids sartorii and Parabacteroids distasonis elevate anandamide (AEA), which activates the CB1R‐DRD2‐Rap1 signaling cascade to drive synaptic repair and reduce neuroinflammation ...
Hongbo Zhang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Free Trade Agreements Between the EU and New Zealand and the EU and Australia: An Assessment of Labour Law Provisions

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Iuridica
In the first main part of the article, the author researches labour provisions included in the EU–New Zealand free trade agreement (FTA) of 2022. She explains why this FTA shall be perceived as a new, fifth generation FTA and what are the key changes the
Aneta Tyc
doaj   +1 more source

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