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Continuum Mechanics Modeling of Flexible Spring Joints in Surgical Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A new mechanical model of a tendon‐actuated helical extension spring joint in surgical robots is built using Cosserat rod theory. The model can implicitly handle the unknown contacts between adjacent coils and numerically predict spring shapes from straight to significantly bent under actuation forces.
Botian Sun +3 more
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The Shadow of Colonial Slavery at Peterloo
Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2021 This article examines how colonial slavery featured in radical discourse in Britain during the Peterloo years, c.1816-1820. In the period leading up to the massacre at St.
Ryan Hanley
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Time for Change: A call for urgent action to end the forced child begging of talibés in Senegal [PDF]
, 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
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Sustainable and Direct Upcycling of Waste Graphite Anodes via Deep Eutectic Solvents
Advanced Science, EarlyView.A charged particle attacks the vacancy to realize the in‐situ P‐doping model. Cl− anions chelate with charged metal ions for the purpose of impurity removal, and meanwhile the cations bind to the electrons on the vacancy surface to neutralize the electrons.
Xue Liu +8 more
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Abolishing Slavery and its Contemporary Forms [PDF]
, 2002 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
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.SPARC is a soft, proprioceptive, agile robot for 3D climbing, and exploration, integrating three parallel‐configured 3D‐printed Kresling origami actuators with embedded proprioception, a dual closed‐loop feedback control system, and pneumatic suction feet, enabling precise trajectory following in 3D, smooth transitioning from the ground to the wall ...
Weicheng Fan +7 more
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Altre Modernità, 2019 The theme of contemporary slavery is necessarily linked to the history of slavery, especially as a part of former colonialist countries’ past (and identity).
Veronica Landi
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International Workshop for Practitioners on Child Domestic Work - Summary Report [PDF]
, 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
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King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
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Compilation of Reports from the Conference on Trafficking of Human Beings and Migration: A human rights approach [PDF]
, 2005 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
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