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SFK: Shape‐ and Function‐Grounded Keypoint Representation for Sequential Manipulation

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sequential manipulation is the process by which robots perform multiple interdependent steps to accomplish composite tasks, demanding tight integration of perception, planning and execution. Existing methods incorporate explicit features such as category, semantics, 6D pose or affordance to enhance consistency, yet single‐feature ...
Yaxin Liu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Animal Shears.

open access: yes, 1890
Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design consists in "mechanism for imparting a combined reciprocating and edgewise play to the cutting knife or knives in order to cause the teeth of said knife or knives to follow or describe a curved or ...
Bechtol, William S.   +1 more
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Now You See Them, Now You Don't: Understanding New Hire Ghosting and Its Antecedents

open access: yesHuman Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT New hire ghosting, in which applicants accept an offer and then quit before their first day without notice, is an emerging and consequential staffing phenomenon. Drawing on job embeddedness theory, we conceptualize new hire ghosting as a form of pre‐entry withdrawal influenced by dispositional risk and the fragile fit, links, and sacrifice ...
Andrew B. Speer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Tribological Properties of Metallic Sliding Surfaces through Micro Multi-texturing Techniques

open access: yes, 2019
Friction reduction is important for minimizing energy loss and improving the life of sliding components. Surface texturing is considered an effective way to control the wear and friction on these components.
Reséndiz-Pérez, Jaime De Jesús
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Navigating Ethical Review Processes in Conflict‐Affected, Authoritarian Contexts: A Case Study of Myanmar's Interim Ethics Review Board (IERB)

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the formation and operation of Myanmar's Interim Ethics Review Board (IERB), which was established in November 2023 by displaced academics involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement against the 2021 military coup. Operating within a highly repressive, conflict‐ridden environment, the IERB exemplifies a locally‐led and ...
Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Results of research of combine harvester cutterbar.

open access: yes, 2021
. The new combine harvester technology for grain crops also includes combing the plants at the root. However, harvesting of the combed stalks is still a major constraint on the widespread use of the new harvesting technology.
Mykhailova, Lyudmyla   +7 more
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Listening to Children's Need to Matter in Skipped Generation Migrant Households: A Study in Rural Hunan, China

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the experiences of children who live in skipped generation households because of parental migration. Drawing on our matched interviews with 34 children and 20 grandparents from 19 skipped generation households in rural Hunan, central China, we examine what the children wanted significant adults to know about their care ...
Rachel Murphy, Li Mi, Xiaoyan Huang
wiley   +1 more source

(44(3):335-343)Experiment and Improvement of the Pruning Machine for Fruit Orchard

open access: yes, 2010
配合亞熱帶果樹如荔枝等之密植栽培,利用機械修剪以矮化果樹,便於採收與管理之構想,設計截頂角錐型整修機。整修機經數度田間試驗與改良後,目前已研製完成;其機長316公分(作業時250公分),寬120公分(作業時405公分),高201公分,動力源為16HP/2,200rpm柴油引擎,行走部為四輪驅動、四輪轉向,行駛速度1.0~15公里/小時,最小轉彎半徑2公尺,車身最低離地距離13公分。側整枝刀組及三層水平整枝刀組均裝於同一機架上,並以同一樞軸為迴轉驅動中心;機體左右兩側各有整枝機構一組 ...
陸龍虎   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The Master's Problem: Revisiting Hegel's Critique of Social Domination

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues for a reinterpretation of Hegel's internal critique of the master in his famous ‘Master–Slave Dialectic.’ Hegel argues that, in addition to the evident injustice suffered by the enslaved, the arrangement also undermines the master's own purposes.
Stephen Cunniff
wiley   +1 more source

The compounding effects of accumulated perceived employer exploitation when tough business decisions must be made

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine how a single exploitative employer decision event, conceptualized as a shock, interacts with employees' accumulated perceived employer exploitation to amplify feelings of violation and influence adverse employee reactions. This interaction effect, and its boundary conditions, constitutes the primary theoretical contribution of the ...
Dorothea Roumpi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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