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Small‐Scale Magnetic Peristaltic Soft Robot With Mobility and Transport Capabilities

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study introduces a miniature, untethered soft magnetic microrobot with peristaltic capabilities for both locomotion and cargo transport. Eight helically magnetized elastomeric strips deform under rotating fields (10–80 mT, 1–5 Hz), enabling movement across rods and lumina at up to 4.1 body lengths min‐¹.
Mohammad Hasan Dad Ansari   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Color‐Pure Organic Luminophores: Characteristics, Definitions, Physical Basis and Fundamental Design Principles

open access: yesAngewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Color‐pure all‐organic emitters, i.e., with narrow spectral characteristics, are intensively studied for high‐definition organic LEDs and multi‐color bioimaging. In order to guide targeted materials design, this educative review discusses spectral characteristics, proper definitions and units, and the physical basis of spectral broadening, to distill ...
Johannes Gierschner   +6 more
wiley   +2 more sources

In Defence of Inactivity: Boredom, Serenity, and Rest in Heaven

open access: yesTheoLogica, 2018
“Dynamic” views of heaven are currently popular, in which the blessed spend eternity progressing and developing, as opposed to “static” views, in which they do not.
Jonathan Hill
doaj   +1 more source

The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Dublin III Regulation determines which EU Member State is responsible for examining asylum claims, but its implementation carries significant consequences for those subjected to it. This study examines how Dublin III, as implemented in the Netherlands, affects asylum seekers' psychosocial wellbeing using Silove′s Adaptation and Development
Imen El Amouri
wiley   +1 more source

Animal Boredom

open access: yes, 2018
Animal boredom is an unpleasant state experienced by animals in monotonous environments, which can pose a serious threat to animal welfare. It is common parlance to say of animals that they are bored.
Nico Dario Müller, Müller, Nico Dario
core   +1 more source

The Theory of Boredom as a Sign of Existential Disconnection—Alves Ferreira’s Theory of Subjective Anomie

open access: yesPhilosophies
This article proposes a conceptual reformulation of the phenomenon of boredom by carefully distinguishing ordinary situational or psychologically driven boredom from what is here termed existential boredom: a specific mode of disconnection in which the ...
João Miguel Alves Ferreira
doaj   +1 more source

Correlating Boredom Proneness and Automation Complacency in Modern Airline Pilots

open access: yes, 2018
The research project determined whether boredom proneness and self-assessed boredom affect automation complacency in modern airline pilots. Modern transport category aircraft are increasing in automation sophistication.
Bhana, Hemant
core  

Toward a Model of Boredom: Investigating the Psychophysiological, Cognitive, and Neural Correlates of Boredom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Boredom is a universal human experience that has the potential to impact a broad range of activities, especially when experienced at chronic and/or elevated levels.
Merrifield, Colleen
core  

Existential boredom as a phenomenon of human social existence

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
Background. Until now, science lacks a holistic philosophical understanding of the phenomenon of existential boredom and has not developed an attitude towards it, although it is recognized in the scientific community.
Svetlana M. Maltseva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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