Cast in a racial and class mode of transport: exploring the "invisible" drivers of the minibus taxi industry in South Africa. [PDF]
Front SociolFobosi SC.
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Inspired by the octopus and the golden wheel spider, soft robots with liquid crystal elastomer arc fibers as appendages are fabricated to transcend surface constraints through an elevated center of mass and minimal contact footprints. By leveraging curvature‐encoded deformation‐recovery cycles, these robots exhibit contractile, torsional, and flexural ...
Jong Bin Kim +5 more
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Applying social entrepreneurship to One Health and climate education: a retrospective analysis of pre- and post-course survey data for a One Health and Global Food Security course. [PDF]
Front Vet SciParsons B, Watson B.
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Nocturnal Intraocular Pressure Monitoring With a Soft Contact Lens Sensor for Glaucoma Management
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.A soft contact lens sensor enables continuous, noninvasive monitoring of nocturnal intraocular pressure (IOP) under closed‐eye sleep conditions. By integrating a highly compliant inductive–capacitive circuit onto a commercial lens, the device achieves record sensitivity and stable performance.
Yumin Dai +19 more
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Policy lessons regarding medical security for rare diseases inChina: Insights from Zhejiang Province through the multiplestreams framework. [PDF]
Intractable Rare Dis ResWang M, Rong C, Wang P.
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Nonlocal Metaspire: A Scalable Elastic Material Platform With Decoupled Mechanical Modes
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Nonlocal Metaspire introduces sequential rotation to realize wider scalability in implementing complex nonlocal couplings in elastic metamaterials while suppressing unintended mode coupling. Numerical results clarify the underlying wave motions, demonstrate mode‐decoupled roton and maxon formation, and support a straightforward extension to higher ...
Seung Han Kim +3 more
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Efficiency and equity of water transfers to megacities: reconfiguring urban water security in Istanbul. [PDF]
PeerJVarty Bayar F, Daloğlu Çetinkaya İ.
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Multilayered Digital Microfluidic Chip for Cell‐Based Assays
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.A multilayered digital microfluidic (mDMF) chip architecture is introduced to improve throughput and robustness in cell‐based assays. By multilayering electrode components and dielectric layers on glass, this design significantly reduces actuation voltage, maintains reliability, and enables expansion of the operational area with minimum current leakage.
Mert Ozden +2 more
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Developing the NOMI framework for food and nutrition security in a climate-exposed delta: qualitative evidence from the Indian Sundarbans. [PDF]
Dialogues HealthDas N, Poddar D.
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Femtosecond‐Laser Mould Texturing Enables Tunable Biointerfaces in COC Microfluidics
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.Femtosecond‐laser texturing of injection‐mould inserts enables scalable engineering of biointerfaces in cyclic olefin copolymer microfluidics. Replicated micro‐ and nano‐topographies modulate surface roughness and wettability, leading to texture‐dependent protein adsorption and cell adhesion without chemical post‐processing.
Irene Varela‐Leniz +9 more
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