Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects
This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios +4 more
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Positive Politeness Dominates: Examining The Politeness Strategies in an Indonesian EFL Textbook
Understanding politeness strategy helps speakers understand which expressions are appropriate to use depending on the situation. This study aims to provide an overview of politeness strategies found in the EFL textbook Bahasa Inggris: Think Globally, Act
Muslim, Ahmad Bukhori, Silvya, Dhiana
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Building rapport in an online community via positive politeness strategies
The present paper concentrates on the role of politeness strategies in on-line groups formed around an Internet message board dedicated to dieting. As the concept of weight is a sensitive part of people’s identity, it produces face-threatening acts as ...
Trávníková Petra +1 more
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Human‐in‐the‐Loop Swarms: A Bionic Swarm Approach to Real‐World Soil Mapping
This article introduces the “Bionic Swarm,” a novel system that lowers the barriers to real‐world swarm validation by abstracting difficult hardware tasks to app‐guided human agents. We demonstrate the system's utility through the experimental validation of a geotechnical soil‐mapping swarm algorithm and show superior performance to baseline approaches
Petras Swissler +5 more
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A piezoelectric meta‐transducer generates an ultrasonic rainbow, steering guided elastic waves to different angles according to frequency. A dithering‐based binary electrode design enables a closer realization of the target wavenumber filter, improving directional purity and suppressing unwanted lobes. Numerical and experimental validation demonstrates
Masoud Mohammadgholiha +5 more
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Overview of the proposed Gate‐Align‐SED, including two stages of training: (1) Mean‐Teacher SSL Training; and (2) Enhancer Model Training. In complex real‐world environments such as disaster monitoring, effective sound event detection (SED) is often hindered by the presence of noise and limited labeled data.
Jieli Chen +4 more
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Understanding Platelet Donor Experience in Greece: Satisfaction Drivers, Service Gaps, and Implications for Service Design. [PDF]
Karakolias S, Palla A.
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Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy
Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
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Social friction vs. cognitive efficiency: A comparative analysis of help-seeking behaviors in human communities and generative AI. [PDF]
Qi L, Zhao L.
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The rain feels different under the same umbrella: Experiences with poverty across LGBTQ subgroups
Abstract Population‐based survey data have demonstrated that LGBTQ communities report varying rates of economic insecurity, yet very little research directly assesses how pathways into and experiences with poverty look different among subgroups at the intersections of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).
Bianca D. M. Wilson, Lillian Nguyen
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