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Strong‐Magnetic Flexible Composites for Magnetically Responsive Soft Robots

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This perspective provides an overview of the performance mechanisms, preparation methods, and applications of strong magnetic flexible composite materials in soft actuators (such as gripping, movement, and sensing), and further explores current opportunities and challenges.
Wenwen Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The FairShares Model: a communitarian pluralist approach to constituting social enterprises? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Objectives - This paper is an exploration of the intellectual antecedents and philosophical assumptions that underpin the FairShares Model - a set of brand principles and Articles of Association published by the FairShares Association.
Bull, Mike, Ridley-Duff, Rory
core   +1 more source

Molecular Appendix Adjusted Architectural Propagations of Red‐Light Controlled Macroscopic Photoactuating Performances

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Amphiphilic chloroazobenzenes, bearing different amino acids as end groups alanine, phenylalanine, and valine, exhibit excellent photoisomerizations. Varying structures of three amino acid groups participate in supramolecular formations and therefore photoinduced morphological transformations via adjusting intermolecular interactions. These interaction
Shuangshuang Meng   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges and Future Directions in Assessing the Quality and Completeness of Advanced Materials Safety Data for Re‐Usability: A Position Paper From the Nanosafety Community

open access: yesAdvanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.
Nanosafety data provide a guiding example for establishing best practices in data management, aligning with FAIR principles and quality criteria. This review explores existing quality assessment approaches for reliability, relevance, and completeness, emphasizing the need for harmonization and adaptation to nanomaterials and advanced materials. The aim
Verónica I. Dumit   +43 more
wiley   +1 more source

The identification of skills and competencies for effective management in social enterprises. A managerial perspective

open access: yesManagement, 2016
The need to adapt to external business requirements, turbulences present in the environment as well as the dynamic changes occurring in the non-profit sector require the presence of managers who are not only capable of taking proper care of financial ...
Wronka-Pośpiech Martyna
doaj   +1 more source

Crossroads Rhode Island: Proposed Social Enterprise Business Plan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Crossroads Rhode Island provides their clients with a continuum of care that includes basic emergency needs, shelter, housing, case management and vocational services for individuals and families.
Brookes, Joe   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Pathogenic Role of FGFR3 Autoantibodies in Small Fiber Neuropathy

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Autoantibodies against fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) are identified as pathogenic drivers of pain in small fiber neuropathy. By binding to sensory neurons in dorsal root ganglia, FGFR3 autoantibodies activate MAPK signaling and induce hyperexcitability and mechanical hypersensitivity, establishing FGFR3 autoantibodies as a therapeutic ...
Lyuba Y. Salih   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social enterprise in the UK homelessness sector: Lessons for Kazakhstan

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2016
Kazakhstan’s homelessness social enterprise (SE) practitioners tend to argue that core to the SE concept is the idea that this is first and foremost a business whose income generation function enables it to sustain the viability of social projects.
Aslan S. Tanekenov
doaj   +1 more source

A Comparative Social Enterprise Analysis: Motives, Processes and Barriers

open access: yesStudia i Materiały, 2014
Social entrepreneurship is a model that has a significant impact on the social transformation process. It has emerged as an effective and complementary method of achieving social change which has been poorly interpreted by governments and businesses ...
Fatih Öztürk
doaj   +1 more source

Social Enterprise Businesses: A Strategy for Creating Good Jobs for People with Disabilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Over the past 10 years, there has been a tremendous growth in entities known as social enterprise businesses. This approach has been particularly promising in creating new opportunities for individuals with disabilities in emerging and growth industries.
Elaine Katz, Ronnie Kauder
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