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Formal and Informal Social Care in People With Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: A Cross‐Sectional Multicenter Survey

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living. This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disparate regions of England: Salford (urban) and Norfolk (rural).
Mehreen Somro   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competition and complementarity of retailing in the historic city centre of Vienna

open access: yesBelgeo, 2006
The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of competition and complementarity on retailing in the historic city centre of Vienna and to analyse the changes brought about by these mechanisms.
Gerhard Hatz
doaj   +1 more source

Is an Apple an Orange? A Large Language Model Benchmark for Candidate Term Extraction and Subclass Decisions Against Upper Ontologies in Engineering and Materials Science

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Building machine‐readable vocabularies for materials science is slow, expert‐driven work. This study benchmarks 13 large language models on two of its first steps: finding candidate terms in engineering articles and deciding where they belong in a class hierarchy.
Thomas Bjarsch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowing the past, seeing the future - an exploratory study on the viability of retail patronage models based on revealed behaviour

open access: yesUrban, Planning and Transport Research, 2020
Understanding the viability and impact of out-of-town shopping centres is of equal importance for property developers, retailers, and city planners.
Heli Marjanen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender differences in lifestyles and perception of megamall patrons in Ibadan, Nigeria

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2021
The development of megamalls in Nigeria and other developing nations has witnessed tremendous impact, giving people choices of places for goods reasonably and relatively affordable.
Olawale Y. Olonade   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

OntOMat: Toward Ontology‐Based Product and Process Design Engineering and Optimization Solutions Fueling Circular Value Chains

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
The OntOMat ontology establishes a structured framework for polymer matrix fiber reinforced composite materials, integrating manufacturing processes, characterization methods, and multiscale design through the VDI/VDE 3682 formalized process description standard.
Nicolas Christ   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

In Situ Magnetic Ordering and Microfabrication of Liquid Crystal Networks with Discretized Alignment

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Miniaturizing liquid crystal network actuators typically demands costly laser writing or digital light processing. A low‐cost photolithography platform couples rotating photomasks with a Halbach magnetic array to discretize in‐plane molecular alignment down to 50 µm, producing programmable, light‐responsive grippers, checkerboards, and origami‐inspired
Matthew Gene Scarfo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

In‐House Manufacturing of 3D ECM Culture Chips via Vacuum Thermoforming for Enhanced Imaging Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Desktop vacuum thermoforming enables rapid, low‐cost fabrication of 96‐channel polystyrene culture chips with very thin imaging interfaces. The resulting platform supports cell lines, primary cells, and patient‐derived organoids, and enables high‐resolution confocal microscopy and single‐cell visualization, providing an accessible approach for advanced
Aleksandra Fomina   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rigenerazione urbana e commercio. Il caso di Birmingham [PDF]

open access: yesCiudades, 2007
In the last twenty years, Birmingham’s city centre and its urban environment have been radically transforming. During the nineties in England, a decisive change in the central government was registered, as much in the matter of retail policies as in the ...
Carlo Molteni
doaj  

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