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Gender and the Outdoors: An International Conversation [PDF]

, 2008
Over the past two to three decades in outdoor education circles, there has been a gradual swell of interest in bringing a gender lens to the examination of issues, theory and practice within the field.
Dignan, Annie, Pinch, Katherine J., Cosgriff, Marg, Breunig, Mary   +3 more
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Toward Pore‐Engineered 3D‐Printed Materials for Sorption Water Harvesting, Interfacial Evaporation, and Radiative Cooling

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Water harvesting, radiative cooling, and interfacial solar evaporation are fundamentally governed by coupled heat, mass, and light transport processes. These processes are mediated by pore architecture, including pore size, connectivity, and hierarchical organization.
Dejan J. Trajkovski, Higgins M. Wilson, Abdallah Y. M. Ali, Jiaxing Xu, Ruzhu Wang, Primož Poredoš   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collision‐Resilient Winged Drones Enabled by Tensegrity Structures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Based on structures of birds such as the woodpeck, this article presents the collision‐resilient aerial robot, SWIFT. SWIFT leverages tensegrity structures in the fuselage and wings which allow it to undergo large deformations in a crash, without sustaining damage. Experiments show that SWIFT can reduce impact forces by 70% over conventional structures.
Omar Aloui, Raphael Zufferey, William Stewart, Mohammad Askari, Simon Jeger, Dario Floreano   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Improving the Robustness of Visual Teach‐and‐Repeat Navigation Using Drift Error Correction and Event‐Based Vision for Low‐Light Environments

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Visual teach‐and‐repeat (VTR) navigation allows robots to learn and follow routes without building a full metric map. We show that navigation accuracy for VTR can be improved by integrating a topological map with error‐drift correction based on stereo vision.
Fuhai Ling, Ze Huang, Tony J. Prescott
wiley   +1 more source

Consensus and guidelines on myopia control in children by the Taiwan Myopia Disease Society

Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology
PURPOSE: Myopia is a major public health concern in East Asia. Despite available interventions, clinical variations persist in diagnosis and treatment. This study aimed to develop consensus-based clinical recommendations for myopia control in Taiwanese ...
Jui-Yen Lin, Hung-Chi Chen, Pei-Chang Wu, Ken-Kuo Lin, Chih-Chien Hsu, Der-Chong Tsai, Chih-Ping Wang, Chun-Fu Liu, Han-Chih Cheng, Chau-Yin Chen, Yun-Wen Chen, Wei-Yu Chiang   +11 more
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Time spent outdoors and sleep normality: A preliminary investigation

Population Medicine, 2021
Introduction Sleep deficiency is associated with health risks, and time outdoors is related to health benefits. This study assessed time outdoors and its association with sleep normality.
Lindsey A. Wood, Madeline M. Tomlinson, Jack A. Pfeiffer, Kandi L. Walker, Rachel J. Keith, Ted Smith, Ray A. Yeager, Aruni Bhatnagar, Savanna Kerstiens, Delana Gilkey, Hong Gao, Sanjay Srivastava, Joy L. Hart   +12 more
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Amsterdam makes it illegal to smoke cannabis outdoors.

, 2023
After years of threatening to clean up Amsterdam’s ancient red light district, the city council took the first step on Thursday by making it illegal to smoke cannabis outdoors...
Cluskey, Peter
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Task‐Oriented Path Planning Towards Autonomous Sensor Network Deployment in Rainforest Canopies

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
An informative path planner for drone‐based deployment of wireless sensor networks in rainforest canopies is presented, addressing key challenges in large‐scale biodiversity monitoring. By integrating canopy surface detection with connectivity‐aware sampling under strict flight constraints, the approach enables efficient and reliable aerial sensor ...
Rita Santos Raminhos, Salua Hamaza
wiley   +1 more source

Technical Feasibility Study of Autonomous Field Robot‐Based on‐the‐go Assessment of Soil Nutrients Using Ion‐Sensitive Field‐Effect Transistors

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Autonomous field robots equipped with ISFET‐based sensors enable rapid, spatially resolved soil nutrient analysis directly in the field. An automated system based on the BoniRob platform is presented for standardized on‐site extraction and measurement of key macronutrients and soil pH.
Vadim Riedel, Stefan Hinck, Edgar Peiter, Arno Ruckelshausen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source