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Information Transmission Strategies for Self‐Organized Robotic Aggregation

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
In this review, we discuss how information transmission influences the neighbor‐based self‐organized aggregation of swarm robots. We focus specifically on local interactions regarding information transfer and categorize previous studies based on the functions of the information exchanged.
Shu Leng   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Residential child care practitioners in autism-specific units: the perceptions of potential staff and newly recruited current practitioners

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2011
This paper presents findings about the beliefs and experiences of potential and current residential child care practitioners who work with children affected by autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Irene Stevens
doaj   +1 more source

Cross‐Scale Hierarchical Targeted Delivery System Based on Small‐Scale Magnetic Robots

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article reviews a cross‐scale hierarchical targeted delivery system that integrates magnetic continuum robots and magnetic microrobots. By combining rapid long‐range navigation with precise microscale targeting, the system overcomes key limitations of single‐scale approaches.
Junjian Zhou   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial Vol4 no1

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2005
One of the key skills in residential child care practice is assessment. In this edition of the journal, several writers have taken some aspect of assessment as their theme, be it risk assessment, assessment of new staff, or a tool for assessing the needs
Irene Stevens
doaj   +1 more source

A Plug‐and‐Play Volume Minimizing Micromixer

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Microscale fluid mixing has numerous applications where rapid and efficient mixing is required, including drug discovery, bio‐analysis and point‐of‐care diagnostics. Conventional soft lithography processes, however, make the integration of robust and reliable mixing difficult to implement in practice, especially across different flow rates ...
Kirill Kolesnik   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fulfilled lives, supportive communities: implementation of the Children and Young Persons Act 2008: notifications to be sent by Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) to local authorities about children’s social care providers (under Section 30A of the Care Standards Act 2000). [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
"This is a consultation about the information Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) are required to notify to all local authorities in Wales and England when they take specific actions against providers of children's homes, residential ...

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Nature‐Inspired Surface Modification Strategy Reverses the Autophagic Flux Impairment of Mitochondrial Transplantation for Attenuating Ischemic Strokes

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
The functionalized starch modifies the mitochondrial surface and encapsulates resveratrol into the cavity of helices, facilitating a novel mitochondrial transplantation platform (MLSR). Upon internalization in recipient cells, MLSR triggers mitophagy and maintains positive autophagic flux through RIP1/RIP3 pathway inhibition.
Nisha Wang   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Residential and support services for older people in the Waikato, 1992-1997: Privatisation and emerging resistance [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
As disproportionate users of services, older people are more vulnerable to shifts in policy in health care and social support. This paper focuses on older people as a group affected by economic and social restructuring.
Chalmers, Lex, Joseph, Alun E.
core   +1 more source

Climate Action Impacts on Steelmaking Emissions of Persistent Organic Pollutants Highlight a Gap Between the Paris Agreement and the Stockholm Convention

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Emissions of unintentionally produced persistent organic pollutants (UPOPs) and global warming are two major environmental challenges. But their governance has largely evolved in parallel, leaving the toxicity implications of climate‐driven industrial transitions poorly understood.
Yuxiang Sun   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guest Editorial Vol3 no1

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2004
As the new director of the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC), and being new to the Scottish social policy context, I have had the opportunity over these last six months to view the situation of residential child care from a different ...
Jennifer Davidson
doaj   +1 more source

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