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Design Optimization of a Variable Stiffness Robotic Gripper with Passive Restoration Fabricated by Multimaterial 3D Printing

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A multimaterial robotic gripper fabricated via multimaterial 3D printing integrates conductive thermopolymer joints with flexible elastomeric components. Joule heating enables precise joint‐level stiffness modulation, enhanced by embedded temperature sensors, passive shape restoration, and active cooling, enabling versatile manipulation capabilities ...
Daniel Jee Seng Goh   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Time for Change: A call for urgent action to end the forced child begging of talibés in Senegal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Anti-Slavery International
core   +1 more source

Recent Advances in Robotic Systems for Robot‐Assisted Transoral Surgical Procedures: A Systematic Review

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review systematically examines robotic systems for robot‐assisted transoral surgical procedures, classifying them based on transoral access depth, and evaluates their fundamental design principles, mechanical innovations, algorithmic advancements, and clinical implementation status.
Yuhao Shi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do You Know About the ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Anti-Slavery International
core   +1 more source

A Generative AI‐Assisted Piezo‐MEMS Ultrasound Device for Plant Dehydration Monitoring

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This study introduces a complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS)‐compatible wearable piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducers (PMUTs) that sandwiches the leaf (PMUT–Leaf–PMUT, PLP) and employs generative artificial intelligence for real‐time analysis.
Kaustav Roy   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

International Workshop for Practitioners on Child Domestic Work - Summary Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Anti-Slavery International
core   +1 more source

The right of reparation and natural freedom in De instauranda Aethiopum salute by Alonso de Sandoval S.J.

open access: yesFilosofia Unisinos, 2017
This article discusses the topic of the right of reparation in the light of the second edition of De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1647) by Alonso de Sandoval S.J. (1576/1577-1652).
Márcio Paulo Cenci
doaj   +1 more source

Unveiling the Fundamental Principles of Reconfigurable Resistance States in Silver/Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Nanofluids

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
The electrophoretic reorganization of Ag nanoparticles within a poly(ethylene glycol) leads to the formation of conductive bridges with reconfigurable resistance states. Diverse conduction characteristics of the bridge range between ohmic conduction, nonlinear tunneling, or space charge‐limited conduction, and high resistance states.
Daniil Nikitin   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Queen of the fields”: Slavery’s Graphic Violence and the Black Female Body in 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)

open access: yesTransatlantica, 2019
This paper examines Steve McQueen’s strategy in 12 Years a Slave, which consists in filming the horrors of slavery through a narrative construction that mostly concerns Solomon Northup, a “temporary” slave who survives slavery, and a visual construction ...
Hélène Charlery
doaj   +1 more source

Les Lieux de Memoire and the Legacies of Roma Slavery in the Collective Memory. Case Study in Tismana, Gorj County, Romania

open access: yesSociologie Românească, 2023
This article aims to analyse the content of the local collective memory regarding slavery in Tismana, the place of the first documentary attestation of “Gypsies” in Romanian territory as slaves.
Adrian-Nicolae Furtună
doaj   +1 more source

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