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Advances in Halide Perovskites for Photon Radiation Detectors

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This work highlights recent progress in perovskite‐based photon radiation detectors, covering organic–inorganic hybrid, inorganic, lead‐free double, and vacancy‐ordered halide perovskites. Their detection performance is compared, material‐specific advantages and challenges are examined, and provides insight into current limitations and future ...
Liangling Wang, Jieqi Wang, Xiaojun Cui, Carsten Ronning   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transducers Across Scales and Frequencies: A System‐Level Framework for Multiphysics Integration and Co‐Design

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Transducers convert physical signals into electrical and optical representations, yet each mechanism is bounded by intrinsic trade‐offs across bandwidth, sensitivity, speed, and energy. This review maps transduction mechanisms across physical scale and frequency, showing how heterogeneous integration and multiphysics co‐design transform isolated ...
Aolei Xu, Mengyao Xiao, Zhouli Sui, Yinpeng Wang, Daoye Zheng, Yuxin Liu, Luwei Wang, Huajun Liu, Chengkuo Lee   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Advances of Slip Sensors for Smart Robotics

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent progress in robotic slip sensors across mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, magnetic, and acoustic mechanisms, offering a comprehensive reference for the selection of slip sensors in robotic applications. In addition, current challenges and emerging trends are identified to advance the development of robust, adaptive,
Xingyu Zhang, Liao Wu, Shuai He, Zhao Sha, Yuwan Huang, Shuying Wu, Dewei Chu, Chun H. Wang, Shuhua Peng   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parental encouragement is positively associated with outdoor active play outside of school hours among 7–12 year olds [PDF]

PeerJ, 2015
Background. Physical activity is important for children’s physical, mental, and social well-being. Outdoor active play is an important yet unstudied domain of children’s physical activity.
Thomas Ferrao, Ian Janssen
doaj   +2 more sources

Playing Outdoors

, 2019
This book explores the magic of spontaneous play self-organized by children. Outdoor play must be encouraged in kindergarten, in school and in community settings. Today, much of the time and play of children is organized by adults. This book is about the magic of self-organized play. Children express joy and independence in outdoor play.
openaire   +2 more sources

Children’s outdoor play injuries: how real are parental concerns of danger in outdoor play?

International Journal of Play
Risky play can be defined as any play that is thrilling or exciting, involving risk of injury [Sandseter, E. B. H. (2007). Categorising risky play—How can we identify risk-taking in children's play? European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 15(2), 237–252.].
Fiona Armstrong, David Gaul
openaire   +1 more source

Discourses of outdoor play at new modern preschools

, 2022
This study is part of a larger research project with the aim with to study how the outdoor environment and playgrounds affects children's physical activities and relational encounters with nature and peers.
Manni, Annika,, Löfgren, Håkan,, Mårtensson, Fredrika,, Annerbäck, Johanna,, Fröberg, Andreas,   +4 more
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3D Printing of Soft Robotic Systems: Advances in Fabrication Strategies and Future Trends

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Collectively, this review systematically examines 3D‐printed soft robotics, encompassing material selections, function integration, and manufacturing methodologies. Meanwhile, fabrication strategies are analyzed in order of increasing complexity, highlighting persistent challenges with proposed solutions.
Changjiang Liu, Bin Cui, Xumin Huang, Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, T. Thang Vo‐Doan, Ruirui Qiao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bi-directional association between sleep and outdoor active play among 10–13 year olds

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there is a bi-directional relationship between sleep characteristics (time in bed, sleep duration, sleep chronology, and sleep efficiency) and time spent participating in outdoor active play
Yingyi Lin, Michael M. Borghese, Ian Janssen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental and practice factors associated with children’s device-measured physical activity and sedentary time in early childhood education and care centres: a systematic review

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2022
Background Early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings offer a potentially cost-effective and sustainable solution for ensuring children have opportunities to meet physical activity (PA) and sedentary time (ST) guidelines.
Anne Martin, Rachel Brophy, Joanne Clarke, Charlotte J. S. Hall, Russell Jago, Ruth Kipping, Tom Reid, Benjamin Rigby, Hilary Taylor, James White, Sharon A. Simpson   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source