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Vision-Based Real-Time Traversable Region Detection for Mobile Robot in the Outdoors
Sensors, 2017 Environment perception is essential for autonomous mobile robots in human-robot coexisting outdoor environments. One of the important tasks for such intelligent robots is to autonomously detect the traversable region in an unstructured 3D real world. The
Fucheng Deng, Xiaorui Zhu, Chao He
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A Defense of Free-Roaming Cats from a Hedonist Account of Feline Well-being [PDF]
, 2019 There is a widespread belief that for their own safety and for the protection of wildlife, cats should be permanently kept indoors. Against this view, I argue that cat guardians have a duty to provide their feline companions with outdoor access.
E. Abbate, C.
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The conductive and stretchable photothermal CuSe fiber is fabricated for versatile biomedical applications. This CuSe fiber functions as a reliable wearable strain sensor and heater due to its high conductivity, stretchability and photothermal efficiency.
Kukro Yoon +9 more
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Frontiers in Bioscience, 2011 A review of the various approaches in understanding outdoor thermal comfort is presented. The emphasis on field surveys from around the world, particularly across Europe, enables us to understand thermal perception and evaluate outdoor thermal comfort conditions.
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Ordered three‐dimensional anodic aluminum oxide (3D‐AAO) nanoarchitectures with longitudinal and transverse pores enable architecture‐driven metamaterials. The review maps fabrication advances, including hybrid pulse anodization, and shows how 3D‐AAO templates tailor properties across magnetism, energy, catalysis, and sensing.
Marisol Martín‐González
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Numerical investigation of the effect of crosswind on sound propagation outdoors [PDF]
, 2016 The effect of wind on sound propagation in the atmosphere has been studied extensively before with an emphasize on downwind sound propagation, typically representing worst-case scenarios.
Homikx, Maarten, Van Renterghem, Timothy
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Liquid Metal‐Based Stretchable Strain Sensor for Fruit Growth Monitoring
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Schematic overview of the fruit growth sensor development workflow, including sensor fabrication by injection molding, electromechanical and environmental characterization, mechanical stability testing, electronic readout integration, and outdoor field validation for monitoring of fruit growth under practical orchard conditions.
Asad Ullah +7 more
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An improved technique for the use of zinc-rich coatings [PDF]
, 1973 Blistering and peeling of topcoats used over ethyl silicate, inorganic, zinc-rich protective coatings are virtually eliminated when primer is allowed to cure outdoors for extended period of time and is moistened during ...
Paton, W. J.
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Radiative Cooling by Green(er) Solvents‐Upcycled Polyvinyl Chloride From Drug Blisters Waste
Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.This study explores upcycling poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) from used pharmaceutical blisters into sustainable radiative cooling materials. Using solvent separation and membrane fabrication, PVC was converted into white membranes paired with aluminum foil.
Andrea Lanfranchi +2 more
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Identify and Report Water Pollution: An Interpretive Guide to Surface Water Conditions of the New Hampshire Coastal Watershed, 2nd edition [PDF]
, 2007 This gude was designed to help people who work or recreate outdoors to interpret surface water conditions so that they would recognize a pollution incident and know how to report it.
New Hampshire Estuaries Project
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