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A dam‐inspired textile patch with layer‐by‐layer isovolumetric water transport for sweat loss monitoring

open access: yesInfoMat, EarlyView.
A dam‐inspired textile patch for controllable and quantitative sweat transport (as in dams transporting ships) and sweat loss monitoring. Unlike the conventional Janus‐structured textile of directional water transport model, this textile patch features a multi‐laminated all‐porous fabric structure with an unprecedented layer‐by‐layer isovolumetric ...
Mengyuan Liu   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
wiley   +1 more source

Impatience for negative experiences

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Conceptualizing impatience as an emotion, and patience as the regulation of that emotion, offers new insights and opportunities for the study of consumer behavior. While this framework has primarily been applied to impatience for positive events, many real‐life events of interest involve decisions about negative or mixed‐valence events.
David J. Hardisty
wiley   +1 more source

Coupled directional stability of multiple ship formations

open access: yes, 2013
This thesis addresses the problem of coordinated motion control and the stability loss of surface marine vehicles. The mathematical model is based on Nomotos second order model which captures the fundamental dynamics of turning on the horizontal plane with no side slip.
openaire   +1 more source

Last‐minute coordination: Adapting to demand to support last‐mile operations

open access: yesJournal of Operations Management, Volume 71, Issue 2, Page 176-194, March 2025.
Abstract In the highly competitive e‐commerce industry, customer‐facing warehouses are crucial as the “order penetration points” for e‐commerce last‐mile operations. This research examines how warehouses use last‐minute coordination, an unstructured mechanism, to ensure sufficient inventory at the order penetration points. Previous research has focused
Kedong Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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