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Hard‐Magnetic Soft Millirobots in Underactuated Systems
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review provides a comprehensive overview of hard‐magnetic soft millirobots in underactuated systems. It examines key advances in structural design, physics‐informed modeling, and control strategies, while highlighting the interplay among these domains.
Qiong Wang +4 more
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Rent-seeking and innovation [PDF]
Innovations and their adoption are the keys to growth and development. Innovations are less socially useful, but more profitable for the innovator, when they are adopted slowly and the innovator remains a monopolist.
David K. Levine, Michele Boldrin
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.An enhanced universal gripper combining rigid mechanics with self‐adaptable fingers is presented for industrial automation. The novel six‐bar linkage with integrated compliant pad eliminates mechanical interference while enabling passive shape adaptation.
Muhammad Usman Khalid +7 more
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Crowding-out in Productive and Redistributive Rent-Seeking. [PDF]
This paper presents a general rent-seeking model in which participants decide on entry before choosing their levels of efforts. The conventional wisdom in the rent-seeking literature suggests that the rent dissipation increases with the number of ...
Bruno Lovat +3 more
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Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong +2 more
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Residential Rental Contracts - the state and perspectives of some aspects of legal regulation [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Splitu, 2015 This paper provides a comparative analysis of the law on residential rental in Austria and Germany. It represents a highly regulated legal area which plays a significant role in the life of European citizens who do not own their house or flat and as such
Davorin Pichler
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The Value of Rents and the Likelihood of Conflicts [PDF]
This paper extends the prey--predator model of Grossman and Kim (1995) to analyze the relation between the value of the contested rent and the emergence of a conflict.
Bennour, Khaled
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Modular, Textile‐Based Soft Robotic Grippers for Agricultural Produce Handling
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This article introduces textile‐based pneumatic grippers that transform simple textiles into robust bending actuators. Detailed experiments uncover how cut geometry and fabric selection shape performance. Successful handling of fragile agricultural items showcases the potential of textile robotics for safe, scalable automation in food processing and ...
Zeyu Hou +4 more
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Rent-Seeking in Developed and Developing Countries: Cross Section and Time Series Studies [PDF]
The property rights issue is one of the most important institutional differences between developed/developing countries. The violation of the property rights results with rentseeking.
Dilek Demirbas
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