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Ab Initio Thermoelectric Transport Calculations of Alloyed Half‐Heuslers

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
The effect of alloying on the electronic transport of half‐Heusler thermoelectric materials is explored using a fully ab initio approach. A novel method is developed that combines calculations of alloyed supercells with Boltzmann transport, considering the full energy and momentum dependent scattering processes from first principles extracted ...
Ankit Kumar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Cochlear Implants: The Need for Precise Temporal Coding

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Spatial hearing relies on sensitivity to interaural temporal cues, but this sensitivity is often poorly developed in patients with cochlear implants, particularly those with early‐onset hearing loss. Rats with cochlear implants, however, demonstrate excellent temporal sensitivity, suggesting that this limitation is not inevitable.
Nicole Rosskothen‐Kuhl   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anti-heroic figures, Dream Boxes, and the Search for the Nature of Humanity: A Cyborg Narrative in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

open access: yesWriting Chinese: A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Literature
KEYNOTE Yuqin Jiang is Professor of Comparative Literature, at the School of Humanities, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen. Her research interests span cyborg narrative, sci-fi poetics, digital humanities, science fiction, postcolonial literature, and ...
Yuqin Jiang
doaj   +1 more source

Why has sci-fi literature lost its popularity in Azerbaijan after 1990?

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2020
This paper examines the reasons why science fiction works are not popular in the last decades in Azerbaijan. The focus of this research is to determine whether there is a lack of science fiction novels in the market or low-quality of existing modern ...
Gunel Alasgarova
doaj   +1 more source

Écrire des fictions « vraies »

open access: yesCommunication, 2022
To what extent can fiction contribute to analyses in the social sciences? Are narrative techniques compatible with the epistemology of social science disciplines? Does the imaginary shape how we understand the world? If so, how?
Pierre Lascoumes
doaj   +1 more source

Spray‐Dried mRNA‐LNP Powder Enabling Multi‐Route Delivery With 3‐Year Refrigerated Stability

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Spray‐dried mRNA‐LNP powder with trehalose matrix enables reconstitution for parenteral delivery or direct administration via pulmonary and sublingual routes, maintaining protein expression comparable to liquid controls. The thermostable powder preserves colloidal stability, mRNA integrity, and biological activity for over 3 years at 2°C–8°C, while ...
Ashish Sarode   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The conflicts among globalization, modernization and tradition in science fiction: The case of

open access: yesCultures of Science
Science fiction takes many forms, including academic work that calls on readers to think about social and cultural problems. This paper takes a piece of science fiction, Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia , as an example and discusses the conflicts among ...
Bing Liu
doaj   +1 more source

“All these worlds are yours except …”: Science Fiction and Folk Fictions at NASA

open access: yesEngaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2019
Although they command real spacecraft exploring the solar system, NASA scientists refer frequently to science fiction in the course of their daily work. Fluency with the Star Trek series and other touchstone works demonstrates membership in broader geek ...
Janet Vertesi
doaj   +1 more source

New Empiricisms in the Anthropocene: Thinking With Speculative Fiction About Science and Social Inquiry

open access: yesQualitative Inquiry, 2020
Interest in new empiricisms and transdisciplinary methods has led many social inquirers to engage with 20th-century post-classical physical science.
E. de Freitas, S. Truman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Is There a Market for Organic Milk in Serbia? Insights From Integrated Choice and Latent Variable Model

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past growth in the global organic market has been concentrated in high‐income countries, while in middle‐income countries such as Serbia the organic market remains nascent and characterized by a sparse assortment of organic products, high retail premia and limited evidence on consumer preferences and their drivers.
Milan Tatic   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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