Bioinspired Soft‐Skeleton Robotics With Cooperative Shape Transformation and Stiffness Adaptation
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A bioinspired soft‐skeleton robot that integrates variable‐stiffness chain skeletons into a soft textile skin is developed. The chain skeletons are highly flexible initially but can stiffen upon pneumatic actuation, enabling large deformation and enhanced load‐bearing capacity.
Mengyuan Niu +5 more
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Investor protection and stock performance: theoretical mechanisms and global empirical evidence [PDF]
Journal of Economics and DevelopmentPurposeOur study aims to provide insights into the potential effect of investor protection on stock performance in terms of stock returns and volatility.Design/methodology/approachBased on a sample of 38,916 firms across 39 countries for the period from ...
Thi Thuy Anh Vo, Thi Hong An Thai
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The Risk - Return Trade - off in Europe: Is There a Pro - cyclical Risk Aversion ? [PDF]
, 2012 This paper analyzes the risk-return trade-off in European equities considering both temporal and cross-sectional dimensions. We introduce not only the market portfolio but also 15 industry portfolios comprising the entire market.
Aragó, Vicent, Salvador, Enrique
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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BMJ Open, 2019 Objective To measure the trade-off between risk of complications versus patient improvement in pain and function in orthopaedic surgeons’ decisions about whether to undertake total knee arthroplasty (TKA).Methods A discrete choice experiment asking ...
Mandana Nikpour +7 more
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The foregone risk premium: a communicative and practical method for the evaluation of risk-return profiles in agriculture [PDF]
Risk considerations have become increasingly important in nowadays agriculture, due to a variety of reasons. Surprisingly, the practice of formalized risk management is not widespread despite the huge amount of scientific literature on this topic.
De Cock, Lieve +3 more
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Testing for efficiency in the New Zealand horse racetrack betting market a thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Applied Economics at Massey University [PDF]
, 1998 Using a large sample of New Zealand pari-mutuel horse race betting data, this study tests for market efficiency. This involves testing for weak form efficiency and an anomaly known as the favourite longshot bias. Additionally, a test developed by Henery (
McKee, Malcolm
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Strategic Design of Soft Actuators in Translational Medical Robotics for Human‐Centered Healthcare
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Soft robotics enables biocompatible, compliant medical devices, but clinical translation requires design‐driven engineering beyond materials. This perspective reviews implantable, surgical, and wearable systems by actuation mechanism, highlighting how optimized architectures and integration improve mechanical interfacing, adaptability, and durability ...
Ho Jun Jin +3 more
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A credibilistic mean-semivariance-PER portfolio selection model for Latin America
Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2019 Many real-world problems in the financial sector have to consider different objectives which are conflicting, for example portfolio selection. Markowitz proposed an approach to determine the optimal composition of a portfolio analysing the trade-off ...
Fernando García +3 more
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The Impact of Off-Balance-Sheet Activities on Banks Returns: An Application of the ARCH-M to Canadian Data [PDF]
This paper revisits the impact of off-balance-sheet (OBS) activities on banks risk-return trade-off. Recent studies (e.g., Stiroh and Rumble 2006) suggest that increasing OBS activities do not necessarily yield straightforward diversification benefits ...
Christian Calmès, Raymond Théoret
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