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Monitoring and Evaluating Sustainable Mobility in a Fragmented Port-City Environment: Evidence from a Maritime University [PDF]

open access: yesTransNav
The implementation of sustainable mobility initiatives in academic institutions plays a crucial role in shaping environmentally friendly transport behaviours and enhancing urban accessibility.
Agnieszka Jankowska   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advances in Halide Perovskites for Photon Radiation Detectors

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This work highlights recent progress in perovskite‐based photon radiation detectors, covering organic–inorganic hybrid, inorganic, lead‐free double, and vacancy‐ordered halide perovskites. Their detection performance is compared, material‐specific advantages and challenges are examined, and provides insight into current limitations and future ...
Liangling Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cold Climate Maritime Engineering: The Need for Development of Educational Materials [PDF]

open access: yesTransNav
Maritime activity in the Arctic has increased significantly due to declining sea ice, longer open-water seasons, and growing interest in shipping, tourism, fisheries, and natural resources.
Magne Petter Sollid   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Overview of definitions of maritime safety, safety at sea, navigational safety and safety in general [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Safety, along with the issue of security, is the most substantial and critical issue to any society and nation of the mankind. The fact that human elements contribute dominantly, in particular, to the transportation – marine, air and road traffic ...
Neumann, T., Formela, K., Weintrit, A.
core   +1 more source

Recent Advances of Slip Sensors for Smart Robotics

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent progress in robotic slip sensors across mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, magnetic, and acoustic mechanisms, offering a comprehensive reference for the selection of slip sensors in robotic applications. In addition, current challenges and emerging trends are identified to advance the development of robust, adaptive,
Xingyu Zhang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Developments in Maritime Security and Their Impact on International Shipping [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Security has been taken very seriously following the September 11 disaster in the USA. This paper examines the legal issues surrounding the prevention of maritime terrorism, especially IMO and American initiatives, and highlights the effects of these ...
Pohlit, Claude
core   +1 more source

Research on key dimensions of seaworthy ro-ro passenger ship types for large-scale ships in Bohai Bay

open access: yesShuili Shuiyun Gongcheng Xuebao
The rational expansion of passenger ro-ro transport ships in the Bohai Bay requires scientific guidance, ensuring the coordinated development and safety of cross-sea transportation.
GAO Song, LI Xiang, LIU Wendi
doaj   +1 more source

Work at the Periphery: Issues of Tourism Sustainability in Jamaica

open access: yesCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2014
The tourism industry in Jamaica, as elsewhere in the Caribbean, has provided government interests and tourism stakeholders with increasingly profitable economic benefits.
Lauren C. Johnson
doaj   +1 more source

Toward Perception‐Native Electronic Skin: Bio‐Inspired In‐/Near‐Sensor and Neuromorphic Computing for Humanoid Robots

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Dense tactile streams from across the humanoid body converge on collide in a central wiring and data bottleneck. By relocating computation closer to and then into the skin itself, near‐ and in‐sensor architectures, together with neuromorphic computing, chart a path toward perception‐native electronic skin, in which the conversion of stimulus into ...
Mijin Kim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterized Ecoflex Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Hybrids for Advanced Flexible Devices

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Ecoflex–PDMS hybrids are systematically characterized to identify an optimal composition that balances stretchability, optical transparency, and plasma bonding, enabling multifunctional applications in stretchable microfluidics, flexible sensing, and soft robotics.
Xiaoyue Kang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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