A Soft Robotic Fish With a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Body and Negative Stiffness Spine
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work introduces a bio‐mimetic soft robotic fish driven by fiber‐reinforced dielectric elastomer actuators integrated as its body. By prestretching this active skin against a flexible spine, a negative stiffness system is created, enabling large‐amplitude bending.
Markus Koenigsdorff +4 more
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Productivity and Efficiency of US Gas Transmission Companies: A European Regulatory Perspective [PDF]
, 2008 Keywords JEL Classification On both sides of the Atlantic the regulation of gas transmission networks has undergone major changes since the early 1990’s.
Jamasb, Tooraj +2 more
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Strategic Design of Soft Actuators in Translational Medical Robotics for Human‐Centered Healthcare
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Soft robotics enables biocompatible, compliant medical devices, but clinical translation requires design‐driven engineering beyond materials. This perspective reviews implantable, surgical, and wearable systems by actuation mechanism, highlighting how optimized architectures and integration improve mechanical interfacing, adaptability, and durability ...
Ho Jun Jin +3 more
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Modeling the Education Supply Chain with Network DEA Model: The Case of the European Union [PDF]
Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences SeriesThis study evaluates the effectiveness of the educational supply chain in 27 EU states using the relational network DEA. The education system consists of three interconnected stages: primary, secondary, and tertiary education.
Anna Maria Pasztori
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Dynamic Network DEA and An application to Japanese Prefectures [PDF]
, 2017 Workshop 2013 on Dynamic and Network DEA (January 29-30, 2013)The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we develop a multi-period dynamic multi-process network DEA (data envelopment analysis) model.
FUKUYAMA Hirofumi +2 more
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Analyzing the solutions of DEA through information visualization and data mining techniques: SmartDEA framework [PDF]
, 2011 Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has proven to be a useful tool for assessing efficiency or productivity of organizations, which is of vital practical importance in managerial decision making.
Akcay, Alp Eren +5 more
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Advances in Electroactive Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Intelligent Robotics and Electronics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Electroactive liquid crystal elastomers (eLCEs) integrate molecular anisotropy with electrical functionality to enable programmable actuation and reconfigurable electronics. This review classifies eLCEs into robotic actuators and adaptive electronics, summarizes key actuation mechanisms, and highlights fabrication strategies that bridge materials to ...
Kavita Ramesh Rathod +14 more
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A New Short-Term Prediction Method for Estimation of the Evaporation Duct Height
IEEE Access, 2020 Evaporation duct is a kind of chaotic phenomenon over the ocean. In this paper, a new nonlinear prediction algorithm, the Darwinian evolutionary algorithm (DEA), is introduced to obtain the specific nonlinear formula P(·) of the chaotic phenomenon.
Yanbo Mai +5 more
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DEA model for measuring the quality control of public transport networks [PDF]
Vojnotehnički Glasnik, 2012 Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a mathematical programming technique successfully used to quantify the efficiency of companies in the manufacturing and service sector.
Dragan S. Pamučar, Boban D. Đorović
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Benchmarking with network dea in a fuzzy environment [PDF]
RAIRO - Operations Research, 2019 Benchmarking is a powerful and thriving tool to enhance the performance and profitabilities of organizations in business engineering. Though performance benchmarking has been practically and theoretically developed in distinct fields such as banking, education, health, and so on, benchmarking of supply chains with multiple echelons that include certain
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