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3D‐Printed Dual‐Doped Ag2Se‐Based Thermoelectric Films With Enhanced Thermal Stability

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Sb–Se dual doping enhances the thermal stability of Ag2Se‐based thermoelectric systems. The compositionally tuned nano‐ink is printed into flexible films by direct ink writing (DIW), retaining improved thermoelectric properties after annealing up to 400°C.
Ahasun Habib Hridoy, Nishat Paul, Naimul Arefin, Axel Lopez, Peiran Wei, Brandon Dumars, Yan Chen, Mortaza Saeidi, Minxiang Zeng   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Programmable Pneumatic Actuator System for a Bioinspired Artificial Colon

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A modular soft robotic colon simulator driven by programmable pneumatic actuation is developed to mimic physiological and pathological‐like motility patterns of the large intestine. Finite element–guided design and distributed control enable anatomically realistic deformation for peristalsis, segmentation, and mass movements, supporting capsule ...
Andrew Bickerdike, Bo Tian, Xizheng Fang, Zepeng Wang, Yang Liu, Lucy Adams, Shyam Prasad   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Possibility of monitoring D.v. virgifera flight by processing image of phero-traps using Raspberry Pi based devices [PDF]

Acta Agriculturae Serbica, 2017
Necessity for seasonal monitoring of economically most important pests in different crops, increase input costs of their surveillance. In maize fields, Western corn rootworm - WCR (Diabrotica virgifera sp.
Marković Dušan, Ranđić Siniša, Tanasković Snežana, Gvozdenac Sonja   +3 more
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Optically Active Birefringent Polymer–Lipid Hybrid Microparticles With Dual‐Stimuli Responsiveness

Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
The present study reports on geometrically tunable, magnetic and NIR‐stimuli‐responsive anisotropic microparticles that exhibit intrinsic birefringence due to their lamellar crystalline architecture, enabling label‐free detection under a polarized light.
Burcu Okmen Altas, Emre Bukusoglu, Nihal Aydogan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

CUSTOS ASSIMÉTRICOS (STICKY COSTS): UM ESTUDO APLICADO A OPERADORAS DE PLANOS DE SAÚDE DA MODALIDADE MEDICINA DE GRUPO

Mundo Livre, 2020
O estudo objetivou analisar a forma como se comportam, em termos assimétricos, os custos das operadoras de plano de saúde (OPS) na modalidade de Medicina de Grupo no Brasil.
Ewerton Alex Avelar, Ludmila Teixeira Rodrigues, Mariana Moreira Silva, Wesley Cirino dos Santos   +3 more
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Elimination of Necking and Aspect Ratio Dependence in Uniaxial Actuators by Continuous Fiber Reinforcement

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A novel carbon fiber reinforcement for dielectric elastomer actuators enhances actuation force while decoupling electromechanical performance from the actuator's aspect ratio. Unlike conventional fiber reinforcements, it enables a uniform planar stretch state along the entire actuator.
Markus Koenigsdorff, Stefania Konstantinidi, Anett Endesfelder, Petr Osipov, Johannes Mersch, E.‐F. Markus Vorrath, Martina Zimmermann, Yves Perriard, Gerald Gerlach   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong, Yucheng Luo, Rob Bernardus Nicolaas Scharff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Narrative Trap: How Reaching for Ever More Can Make Us Miserable and What We Can Do About It

LSE Public Policy Review
How best to navigate our way through life is far from straightforward. It can sometimes be made a little easier by following social narratives about how to live well that have stood the test of time.
Paul Dolan
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3D‐Printing Aided Rapid Prototyping of Pretensioned Tensegrity Structures for Robotic Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Printing, injection molding, and assembly (PMA) is a method for rapid prototyping mesoscale, topologically complex, and tensioned tensegrity structures. In combination with PMA method, two mold design strategies: modular mold and compact channel layout, enable efficiency and scalability for tensegrity fabrication.
Yi Sun, Jan Petrš, Omar Aloui, Dario Floreano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ANÁLISE DO COMPORTAMENTO ASSIMÉTRICO DOS CUSTOS POR NATUREZA DOS GASTOS DE INDÚSTRIAS LISTADAS NAB3

ABCustos
O objetivo da pesquisa foi analisar o comportamento dos custos por natureza em relação às oscilações de volume de atividades em indústrias listadas na B3.
Luiz Henrique Figueira Marquezan, Carmen Luisa Jung, Taís dos Santos Storgatto, Vinícius Costa da Silva Zonatto   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source