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Stimuli‐Responsive Materials for Biomedical Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Stimulus‐responsive materials (SRMs) hold great promise for use in a wide range of biomedical applications. This review covers four stimulus modalities, namely, electrical, optical, magnetic, and ultrasound, and their associated SRMs. It provides a summary of the materials in each modality, their development, and current research perspectives.
Adriana Teixeira do Nascimento   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

A survey of definitions of small business in the southern African context

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Business Management, 1989
This paper reports on a survey of the definition of small business as perceived by various organizations involved in small business training and development.
A. P. Du Plessis   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Materials Engineering for Light‐Activated Gas Sensors: Insights, Advances, and Future Perspectives

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Light activation of gas sensors is a promising strategy for enabling power‐efficient operation in next‐generation smart devices, where a rational design of sensing layers can enhance light energy utilization. This review discusses design strategies for light‐activated gas sensors, including doping‐induced band structure tuning, plasmonic nanoparticle ...
Jinho Lee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ceramics Surface Design by Laser Texturing: A Review on Structures and Functionalities

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Laser surface texturing (LST) is a huge source for innovation in ceramics, as its versatility allows a swift production of very distinct functionalities for attaining high performances in several fields. This function‐oriented review gathers highly relevant applications of laser surface textured ceramics, from optical, thermal, electronic ...
Edna Silva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entrepreneurial university development through the lens of stakeholders. Why? What? and How?

open access: yesJournal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The study, with the aim of comprehending the motives and subtleties of developing an entrepreneurial higher education institution (HEI) in Oman, is of significant importance.
Raihan Taqui Syed, David Spicer
doaj   +1 more source

Small and Medium Enterprises and Global Risks: Evidence from Manufacturing SMEs in Turkey

open access: yesInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2020
This study investigated how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in a country perceive major global risks. The aim was to explore how country attributes and circumstances affect SME assessments of the likelihood, impacts, and rankings of global risks, and
Ali Asgary   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Small business preference for software package [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Until late 2016, the majority of small business uses QuickBooks and Excel to do their accounting work. However, the functions of these accounting tools are insufficient, and also the demands of companies are increasing.
Li, Shuwen, Saadeh, Ahmed
core  

Tunable Electrical and Optical Properties in Atomic Layer Deposited TiO2:Pt Thin Films via Dynamic Metallic Nanoparticle Formation

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Atomic layer deposition (ALD)‐grown TiO2:Pt composite thin films prepared via a supercycle approach exhibit dynamic temperature‐dependent resistivity shifts from insulating through semiconducting to metallic‐like behavior. Platinum nanoparticles form controllably within an anatase TiO2 matrix, enabling simultaneous electrical conductivity enhancement ...
Ramin Ghiyasi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial innovation and its governance: Cases of two major innovations in the financial sector

open access: yesFinancial Innovation, 2017
The power of financial innovations to affect societies on global and intergenerational levels compels us to ask how we can ensure their responsible emergence in society.
Keren Naa Abeka Arthur
doaj   +1 more source

The role of small business in the national economy: world experience and domestic practice

open access: yesПутеводитель предпринимателя, 2020
The article discusses the role of small business in Russia and abroad, also highlights the problems that affect SMEs, the situation with the coronavirus pandemic, which affected Russian entrepreneurs.
E. E. Frolova, M. Kh. Tsoloev
doaj   +1 more source

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