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Fabrication Technologies for Soft, Multimaterial Optical Fibers for In Vivo Diagnostics and Phototherapy, With a Focus on Extrusion Printing

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Soft multimaterial optical fibers integrate multiple functionalities—such as waveguiding, side emission, sensing, drug delivery or actuation—into a single filament for wearable, implantable, and tissue‐integrated devices for diagnostics and phototherapy.
Zahra Kafrashian, Jun Feng, Aránzazu del Campo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perfusion Bioreactor Culture Incorporating Mechanical Confinement Enhances Mesenchymal Stem Cell Extracellular Vesicle Production and Wound Healing Potential

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Scalable manufacturing challenges and limited potency remain two of the most intransigent issues limiting clinical translation of EV therapeutics. Mechanical cues can induce phenotypic changes and increased vesiculation in EV source cells without the use of extraneous reagents, chemicals, and/or cargo, thereby potentially drastically improving the ...
Emily H. Powsner, Raith Nowak, Stephanie M. Kronstadt, Nicholas H. Pirolli, Talia J. Solomon, Kristin Nikolov, William Pieper Holeman, Ian M. Smith, Kimberly M. Stroka, John P. Fisher, Steven M. Jay   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Buyer-Backed Purchase Order and Advance Payment Discount Financing Under Carbon Trade Revenue-Sharing Contract

SAGE Open
The promotion of low-carbon production is a crucial aspect of sustainable development, and carbon trading has proven to be an effective means of achieving this goal.
Guozhao Cao, Yanqing Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Do Transaction Costs and Risk Preferences Influence Marketing Arrangements in the Illinois Hog Industry? [PDF]

, 2009
Risk reduction and transaction costs are often used to explain contracting in the U.S. hog industry with little empirical support. Using a unified conceptual framework that draws from risk behavior and transaction cost theories, in combination with ...
Franken, J.R.V., Garcia, P., Pennings, J.M.E.   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

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

The Jurisprudential and Economic Foundations of Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Contracts and Their Role in Managing Liquidity in Islamic Banks

European Journal of Islamic Finance
This paper examines the jurisprudential and economic foundations of Build–Operate–Transfer (BOT) contracts and evaluates their role as a Sharīʿah-compliant mechanism for managing excess liquidity in Islamic banks.
Dr.Ahmad Asad Ibrahim, Ahmed M. Alsaad
doaj   +1 more source

Development of Heat Engines Powered by Twisted and Coiled Polymer Fiber Actuators

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Continuously rotating engines driven by thermally responsive actuating materials can turn waste heat into useful energy. For the first time heat engines operated by twisted and coiled polymer fiber actuators are demonstrated with engine design guided by two simple analytical models.
Geoffrey M. Spinks, Burhan Bin Asghar Abbasi, Zhen Jiang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Iran's Petroleum Contract “IPC” in comparison with Buy-back and Production Sharing Agreement

Energy Strategy Reviews
Iran's Petroleum Contract “IPC” as a risk service contract, contains some important improvements and features in order to attract foreign investments and know-how to the long-standing oil industry of Iran.
Mohammad Ali Bahmaei, Ehsan Afshar
doaj   +1 more source

Incentives Embedded in Institutions: The Case of Share Contracts in Ghanaian Cocoa Production [PDF]

Providing price incentives to farmers is usually considered essential for agricultural development. Although such incentives are important, regarding price as the sole explanatory factor is far from satisfactory in understanding the complex realities of ...
Takane, Tsutomu
core  

Direct Gravity‐Induced Modulation of Cardiac Conduction Pathways Evidenced Through Propagation Features in Electrophysiological Mapping

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A high‐density wearable body‐surface potential mapping array reveals how gravity reshapes cardiac conduction in real time. By resolving spatiotemporal delay patterns invisible to conventional ECG, the platform uncovers posture‐dependent electrophysiological adaptations across the thorax.
Ruben Ruiz‐Mateos Serrano, Matias L. Picchio, Daniele Mantione, David Mecerreyes, George G. Malliaras   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source