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Restricted Bailouts and the Commitment Problem in Federations [PDF]

Standard models of soft budget constraints consider bailouts as pure monetary transfers. However, in practice often additional obligations or restrictions, such as savings goals, are linked to monetary bailouts.
Karolina Kaiser
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Dispensing Volumetric Additive Manufacturing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Dispensing volumetric additive manufacturing (DVAM) prints 3D structures inside a photocurable resin droplet suspended from the tip of a glass pipette, enabling sequential printing without resin vats or manual part removal. Real‐time droplet profiling and ray‐tracing‐based correction compensate for optical distortion at the curved resin‐air interface ...
Hongryung Jeon, Yunsoo Lee, Seobin Park, Kyung‐Hwan Kim, Junyoung Seo, Im Doo Jung   +5 more
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Which Firms Have a Soft Loan ? Managers' Believes in a Cross-Country Survey in Transition Economies [PDF]

This paper is an empirical work grounded in the soft budget constraint literature. A loan is soft when a bank cannot commit to hold an enterprise to a fixed initial budget and/or the timing of repayment.
Bignebat, C., Gouret, F.
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Halide‐Dependent Photoluminescence and Heavy‐Atom Effects in Low‐Melting Organic–Inorganic Manganese Halides

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Two pyridinium‐based ionic liquid templated hybrid manganese halides, (C4Py)2[MnCl4] and (C4Py)2[MnBr4], display similar bulk structures but show significantly different photoluminescence behaviors due to the bromine heavy‐atom effect. Their stable local Mn environments remain intact even in the molten state, allowing applications such as luminescence ...
Biswajit Bhattacharyya, Christian Balischewski, Jiyong Kim, Tiago Duarte, Lianshe Fu, Rute A.S. Ferreira, Alkit Beqiraj, Iuliia Mikulska, Diego Gianolio, Eric Sperlich, Felix Stete, Wouter Koopman, Christina Günter, Katlen Brennenstuhl, Daniel Van Opdenbosch, Cordt Zollfrank, Armin Wedel, Beth J. Murray, Małgorzata Swadźba‐Kwaśny, Tillmann Klamroth, Michael U. Kumke, Verónica de Zea Bermudez, Andreas Taubert   +22 more
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LL‐37 Driven Phase Transition and Stacking in Oligolamellar Gram‐Negative Bacterial Membrane Models

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work establishes oligolamellar bacterial membrane models to investigate how LL‐37 disrupts the complex dual‐bilayer architecture of Gram‐negative bacteria. Combining SAXS, cryo‐TEM, electrophoretic mobility measurements, and coarse‐grained simulations, it reveals cardiolipin‐driven phase transitions leading to bicelle‐like structures and membrane ...
Bettina Tran, Diane C.A. Lima, Linda Sandblad, Madeleine Ramstedt, Thereza A. Soares, Stefan Salentinig   +5 more
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Structure Formation in Butterfly Scales: Interplay of Genetic Control, Mechanical Instabilities, and Dynamic Material Properties

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Butterfly wing scales are intricate cuticular functional nanosctructures. This perspective suggests that spatially varying material properties, cytoskeletal constraints, and growth‐driven mechanical instabilities shape the resulting nanoscale architectures created from single cells.
Anupama Prakash, Victoria Lloyd, Yi Yang, Anna‐Lee Jessop, Anthony McDougal, Primož Pirih, Guillaume Duclos, Andrew Parnell, Mathias Kolle, Nicola J. Nadeau, Bodo D. Wilts   +10 more
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Auxeticity‐by‐Assembly: Interlocking Modular Auxetic Metamaterials with Selectively Activatable AgNW–Graphene Oxide‐EGaIn Composite Interconnects for Scalable Freeform Photovoltaic Modules

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Auxeticity‑by‑Assembly converts freeform photovoltaics from cut‑defined layouts to assembly‑defined systems. Standardized interlocking units generate negative‑Poisson‑ratio, reconfigurable architectures, while hinge regions are wired by selectively activatable AgNW–GO@EGaIn composite interconnects and a folding‑enabled interconnector layer. A decimeter‑
Seok Joon Hwang, Jiwon Ryu, Dae‐Hee Cho, YoungHoi Cho, Yewon Hwang, Haram Lee, Dong Hoe Kim, Byeong‐Kwon Ju, Seok Chung, Deokjae Choi, Gee Yeong Kim, Heesuk Jung, Taehee Kim, Hyeonggeun Yu, Gabseok Seo, Phillip Lee   +15 more
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Robust Polymer Hydrogels Improve Electric‐Fish‐Inspired Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Electric‐fish‐inspired hydrogel batteries based on ion‐concentration gradients offer an attractive route to soft power sources; however, the poor mechanical properties of existing hydrogels limit device assembly and performance. Here, we report poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether acrylate hydrogels that enable ion‐gradient batteries composed of
Nick Zahnd, Satyajit Das, John Marc C. Puguan, Carolina Pierucci, Michael Mayer, Christoph Weder   +5 more
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Optoelectronic Control of Redox Dynamics in POM Memristors for Noise‐Resilient Speech and Hardware‐Level Motion Recognition

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Optoelectronic control of redox‐active polyoxometalate clusters in polymer matrices yields hybrid memristors with switchable volatile and non‐volatile modes, enabling reservoir‐type in‐sensor optical preprocessing and stable multilevel synapses for multimodal neuromorphic computing, including noise‐tolerant audiovisual keyword recognition and hardware ...
Xiangyu Ma, Ziyu Lv, Guohua Zhang, Zhongyue Xu, Yongbiao Zhai, Haiming Huang, Qiyan Zhang, Xiaojin Zhao, Yan Wang, Ye Zhou, Ziyu Xiong, Guanglong Ding, Wentao Xu, Su‐Ting Han   +13 more
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Some comparative economics of the organization of sports: competition and regulation in north American vs. European professional team sports leagues [PDF]

This article contends that a new research avenue is open to comparative economics which is the economic comparison between American (closed) and European (open) professional team sports leagues.
Wladimir Andreff
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