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Developing temporary protection in Africa

Forced Migration Review, 2015
Formalised temporary protection arrangements in Africa could significantly improve access to territory and human rights for people displaced across borders by disasters. Such arrangements must adhere to states’ existing protection obligations.
Tamara Wood
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The Temporality and Stratification of Refugee Governance in Turkey: An Analysis for Temporary and International Protection from Reception to Return

Central and Eastern European Migration Review
Turkey faces significant challenges in managing refugee governance, hosting over 3 million protection beneficiaries across various categories, including ‘international’, ‘temporary’, ‘subsidiary’ and the distinct ‘conditional refugee’ status.
Nefise Ela Gökalp Aras
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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
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Biodegradable and Biocompatible Functional Polymers for Biomedical Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Biodegradable and biocompatible functional polymers integrate electrical, mechanical, and stimuli‐responsive functionalities while enabling programmed degradation under physiological conditions. This review introduces recent advances in conductive, shape‐memory, self‐healing, photocurable, and adhesive polymer systems, emphasizing material design ...
Won Bae Han, Shuvra Mondal, Sungkeun Han, Chan‐Hwi Eom, Venkata Ramesh Naganaboina, Suk‐Won Hwang   +5 more
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Emerging Post‐CMOS Hardware Neurons for Brain‐Inspired Computing: Devices, Circuits, and System Integration

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The physical realization of artificial neurons is a critical challenge for energy‐efficient neuromorphic computing. This review presents a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of artificial neuron implementations from conventional CMOS to emerging post‐CMOS technologies.
Kannan Udaya Mohanan, Hocheon Yoo, Benoît H. Lessard, Ioannis Kymissis, Chang‐Hyun Kim   +4 more
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The Opportunity Provided by Vaccination Offer to Refugees from Ukraine in European Countries

Vaccines
(1) The Russian invasion of Ukraine forced many people to leave their country and seek asylum in various European countries, with serious consequences from a health perspective.
Giulia Marchetti, Franca D’Angelo, Caterina Ferrari, Arianna Bellini, Marise Sabato, Salvatore Scarso, Pania Karnaki, Maurizio Marceca, Maria Laura Russo, Maria Elena Tosti, Silvia Declich   +10 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
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Numerical Simulation of the Effects of Rockfall Impact on the Dynamic Response of a Sandbag Protection System

Geotechnics
Rockfall is one of the most dangerous and unpredictable natural disasters that can seriously damage infrastructure. In traditional protection systems, sand is commonly used as a buffer material; however, the use of large sandbags as temporary protective ...
Nabeela Maheen, Kazuhide Sawada, Daisuke Ueda, Hayashi Motoyuki, Takahiro Yoshikawa   +4 more
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Load Distributing Metamaterials Via Discrete Optimization

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Mechanical metamaterials are computationally optimized to homogenize transmitted forces by minimizing the spread of reaction forces. The resulting architectures transform localized loading into broader, more uniform force distributions and experimentally demonstrate robust load spreading under quasi‐static and impact loading.
Andrea Detry, Hannes Holey, Raja Zulkarnain, Roberto Guerra, Ilaria Papa, Michael Zaiser, Stefano Zapperi   +6 more
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Asylum Amidst Crisis: The Evolution of Poland’s Refugee Legislation in the Wake of the Ukrainian Exodus

Trento Student Law Review
The article examines Poland’s legislative response to the sudden influx of Ukrainian refugees, caused by the Russian invasion of the country, with a focus on the Special Act as an implementative tool of the Temporary Protection Directive.
Marta Dziemianczuk
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