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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Positive responses of flower visiting bees to landscape heterogeneity depend on functional connectivity levels

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2017
Landscape changes can lead to bee species loss, what impairs proper landscape level pollination processes, impacting both nature conservation and human welfare.
Danilo Boscolo, Paola Mandetta Tokumoto, Patrícia Alves Ferreira, John Wesley Ribeiro, Juliana Silveira dos Santos   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coordinated Architectural and Chemical Reinforcement in the Crushing Mandible of a Soldier Termite

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The crushing mandible of a soldier termite withstands substantial biting loads despite lacking mineral. Its cuticle is partitioned: convex teeth pair hardness and zinc enrichment with aligned chitin fibers for contact durability, while stiffer concave regions between teeth carry bending loads.
Andrew Tran Nguyen, Patryk Wąsik, Juan Fernando Cucuyame Morales, Marie Kate Palau, Adrian Francisco Duran Ornelas, Phani Saketh Dasika, Jin Hee Kim, Radhika Laxminarayana, Eric Hintsala, Greta Chang, Junzhi Liao, Lizhi Sun, Nathan Lord, Atsushi Arakaki, Paul Bardunias, Pablo Zavattieri, David Kisailus   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Natura 2000 sites as a crucial part of nature conservation? An analysis of landscape development in selected areas of the Czech Republic

Moravian Geographical Reports
The Natura 2000 network is the key tool for preserving biodiversity in the EU. However, such a system of territorial protection is under increasing anthropogenic pressure and sites with no national designation are managed rather insufficiently across ...
Janík Tomáš, Zýka Vladimír, Havlíček Marek, Borovec Roman, Demková Katarína, Skokanová Hana, Lichová Anna, Mrkvová Barbora, Romportl Dušan   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

TaqMan Assays for Simultaneous Detection of Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis

Pathogens, 2020
Anthrax is a worldwide zoonotic disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Primarily a disease of herbivores, human infections often result from direct contact with contaminated animal products (cutaneous and inhalational anthrax ...
Diansy Zincke, Michael H. Norris, Odalis Cruz, Berzhan Kurmanov, W. Scott McGraw, David J. Daegling, John Krigbaum, Thi Thu Ha Hoang, Kamil Khanipov, Georgiy Golovko, Ted Hadfield, Jason K. Blackburn   +11 more
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Electrochemical Pathways for Nitrate Conversion to Ammonia: From Environmental Challenges to Ammonia Economy

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This perspective presents recent advances in electrocatalytic nitrate reduction, focusing on reaction mechanisms, catalyst design, and electrolyzer configurations. Key challenges in selectivity, stability, and practical wastewater treatment are highlighted, while future directions for advancing sustainable ammonia synthesis and nitrate remediation are ...
Xintong Li, Yunpeng Zuo, Xiaoran Zhang, Jieqiong Shan, Kenneth Mei Yee Leung, Bin Liu, Peter Strasser, Adrian Fisher, Zonglong Zhu, Xin Wang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial variation in invasive silver carp population ecology throughout the upper Mississippi River basin* [PDF]

, 2020
Understanding spatial variation in non‐native fish species population ecology is imperative, where environmental, biotic and invasion‐related mechanisms contribute to spatial heterogeneity.
Wahl, David, Colombo, Robert, Michael J. Weber, Clay L. Pierce, Sullivan, Christopher, Robert E. Colombo, Weber, Michael, Quinton E. Phelps, Phelps, Quinton, Pierce, Clay, Christopher J. Sullivan, David H. Wahl   +11 more
core   +1 more source

75 years of dryland science: Trends and gaps in arid ecology literature. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Growth in the publication of scientific articles is occurring at an exponential rate, prompting a growing need to synthesise information in a timely manner to combat urgent environmental problems and guide future research.
Aaron C Greenville, Chris R Dickman, Glenda M Wardle   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Melanin's Role in Balancing Mechanical Strength and Reproductive Output in Environmentally Stressed Fungal Spores

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Melanin content directly controls fungal spore mechanical properties, with pigmented spores achieving rupture forces two orders of magnitude higher than hyaline spores. Environmental stress drives this quantity‐quality tradeoff; stressed species invest energy in melanin‐reinforced, mechanically superior thick‐walled, super‐hydrophobic spores, while ...
Atul Agrawal, Steven E. Naleway
wiley   +1 more source

ECOLOGY AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS [PDF]

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1970
ABSTRACT Placing an ecological approach in the general framework of American geographic thought indicates the usefulness of distinguishing two trends in the development of this thought—the one ecological, the other spatial. American geography tended to reject the ecological approach because it was identified at an early period with environmental ...
openaire   +2 more sources