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Microengineered Gradient Hydrogels for Mechanobiology

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Gradient hydrogels are used to mimic the mechanical heterogeneity in native tissues, offering powerful in vitro platforms to study cell‐material interactions in diverse pathophysiological contexts. Here, we present a comprehensive review of the design and experimental considerations for stiffness gradient hydrogels, discussing exemplary achievements ...
Shin Wei Chong, Deepu Ashok, Anna Waterhouse, Marcela M. M. Bilek, Daniele Vigolo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing appliances for mobile commerce and retailtainment [PDF]

, 2003
In the emerging world of the new consumer and the `anytime, anywhere' mobile commerce, appliances are located at the collision point of the retailer and consumer agendas. The consequence of this is twofold: on the one hand appliances that were previously
Kourouthanassis, P., Moussouri, T., Roussos, George   +2 more
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Epidermal Patch Technologies for Integrated Healthcare and Infection Management

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Epidermal patches have evolved from simple wound coverings into multifunctional, skin‐conformable platforms integrating drug delivery, biosensing, and therapeutic functionalities. This review highlights their material innovations, fabrication strategies, and intelligent designs, including hydrogels, microneedles, and flexible electronics, while ...
Yuqi Wang, Atakan Tevlek, Pawel L. Urban, Boaz Mizrahi, Onome Ejeromedoghene, Roshan Deen, Yuanjing Lin, Jagan Mohan Dodda   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Representations of Disability in a Large Norwegian News Corpus: A Topic Modeling Approach Informed by Critical Discourse Studies

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
In this study, we examine how people with disabilities are framed in news media discourse in the early 21st century. Using Norway as a case study, we compiled articles from nationwide newspapers from the years 2005 and 2019 into two corpora comprising ...
Håvard Tvedt Bakka, Jan Grue
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Media Use and Political Engagement: Cross-Cultural Approaches| Media Use and Political Engagement: Cross-Cultural Approaches—Introduction

International Journal of Communication, 2023
Democracies around the world are struggling with the decline of civic and political engagement. At the same time, new forms of engagement such as lifestyle politics, Internet activism, and political consumerism are on the rise.
Özen Odağ, Frank M. Schneider, Larisa Buhin, Jinhee Kim   +3 more
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Fully Wireless and Flexible Valves for Multiplexed and Prolonged Intravesical Liquid Release

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A fundamental mechanism for the simultaneous control of multiple magnetic valves is reported in a miniature soft robotic patch for intravesical drug delivery, enabling fully wireless and programmable liquid release. Integrated with a bioadhesive interface and induction‐coupling‐based liquid volume sensing, the soft robotic patch is promising to enable ...
Boyang Xiao, Yi Zhu, Yusheng Wang, Janene M. Pierce, Jeffrey J. Tosoian, Xiaoguang Dong   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Italian premiership after Berlusconi: A limited legacy


Italian Political Science, 2022
The fall of Silvio Berlusconi’s last government in 2011 and the financial crisis and drastic measures implemented by Mario Monti’s technical government anticipated a real electoral earthquake in 2013.
Annarita Criscitiello
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Public Engagement Model to Analyze Digital Diplomacy on Twitter: A Social Media Analytics Framework

International Journal of Communication, 2021
Social media’s pervasiveness has created new demands for openness, transparency, real-time communication, and public engagement in diplomacy. In this study, we analyze public engagement strategies for diplomacy on Twitter that were employed by a German ...
M. Laeeq Khan, Muhammad Ittefaq, Yadira Ixchel Martínez Pantoja, Muhammad Mustafa Raziq, Aqdas Malik   +4 more
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The Politics of Exile: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1991
Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint is a relentless attack on the notions of exile as relief from the societal constraints of national development and freedom to live in a cultural environment conducive to ...
Gay Wilentz
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Transparency Trade-Offs: Priority Setting, Scarcity, and Health Fairness [PDF]

, 2019
This chapter argues that rather than viewing transparency as a right, we should regard it as a finite resource whose allocation involves tradeoffs. It then argues that those tradeoffs should be resolved by using a multi-principle approach to distributive
Persad, Govind
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