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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Soft Robotics: Assessing Promise and Limitations

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are programmable soft materials that undergo large, anisotropic deformation in response to external stimuli. Their molecular alignment encodes directional actuation in a monolithic structure, making them long‐standing candidates for soft robotic systems.
Justin M. Speregen, Timothy J. White
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Backpropagation Through Soft Body: Investigating Information Processing in Brain–Body Coupling Systems

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This study explores how information processing is distributed between brains and bodies through a codesign approach. Using the “backpropagation through soft body” framework, brain–body coupling agents are developed and analyzed across several tasks in which output is generated through the agents’ physical dynamics.
Hiroki Tomioka, Katsuma Inoue, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Kohei Nakajima   +3 more
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir, Muhammad A. Khalid, Manish Chauhan, Pietro Valdastri, James H. Chandler   +4 more
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Solid Harmonic Wavelet Bispectrum for Image Analysis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The Solid Harmonic Wavelet Bispectrum (SHWB), a rotation‐ and translation‐invariant descriptor that captures higher‐order (phase) correlations in signals, is introduced. Combining wavelet scattering, bispectral analysis, and group theory, SHWB achieves interpretable, data‐efficient representations and demonstrates competitive performance across texture,
Alex Brown, Mathilda Avirett‐Mackenzie, Carolin Villforth, Georgios Exarchakis   +3 more
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A Brain‐Wide Atlas of Astrocytic Oxytocin Receptors Reveals a Glial Basis for Nucleus Accumbens Modulation of Affiliative Behavior

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The cellular actors of oxytocin signaling are under intense scrutiny. A brain‐wide anatomical and functional analysis in mice and rats reveals widespread expression of oxytocin receptors in astrocytes. These receptors are functionally active and, in the nucleus accumbens, selectively regulate male social affiliation.
Clémence Denis, Stefan Stojilkovic, Kai‐Yi Wang, Cristina Márquez, Annabel C. Kleinwächter, Angel Baudon, Yuval Podpecan, Aurélia Ces, Mélanie Kremer, Isabelle Arnoux, Nathalie Rouach, Jemima Helen, Sophie Trender, Andreas Wallkum, Selina Wunsch, Franziska Schommer, Moritz C. Wimmer, Tim Schubert, Felix Franke, Jabir Aliyu Muhammad, Eva M. Eisemann, Ingrid Camila Possa‐Paranhos, Cassandra Baumann, Pierre‐Alexis Derrien, Quirin Krabichler, Cosmo Garcia, Henning Fröhlich, Matthew K. Kirchner, Valery Grinevich, Pascal Darbon, Javier E. Stern, Ferdinand Althammer, Alexandre Charlet   +32 more
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Communicating on Twitter for Charity: Understanding the Wall of Kindness Initiative in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan

International Journal of Communication, 2018
This study highlights the important role of social media for charity through an analysis of tweets about the Wall of Kindness charity initiative in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, we employ a theoretical
M. Laeeq Khan, Zulfia Zaher, Bowen Gao
doaj  

From Ambition to Action: Barriers and Enablers for the Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in the Kunming–Montreal Biodiversity Framework and the Role of Non‐State Bridge Organizations

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Graphical abstract illustrating the transition from global biodiversity ambition to on‐the‐ground implementation of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework after COP16, highlighting the roles of governments, non‐state actors, scientific knowledge systems, and resource mobilization in achieving transformative biodiversity outcomes.
Susan Enechojo Ogbe, Jinfeng Zhou, Linda Wong, Jiachen Gao   +3 more
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Temporality and translation: Thematic and non-thematic narrative

Encounters in translation
Narrative theorists broadly agree that stories are important to both being and knowing. There is less agreement, however, as to exactly how deep narrative goes. The strongest narrativists—such as David Carr and Alisdair MacIntyre—argue that story is so fundamental that human existence itself has an intrinsic narrative structure.
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Sustainable Materials Design With Multi‐Modal Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Critical mineral scarcity, high embodied carbon, and persistent pollution from materials processing intensify the need for sustainable materials design. This review frames the problem as multi‐objective optimization under heterogeneous, high‐dimensional evidence and highlights multi‐modal AI as an enabling pathway.
Tianyi Xu, Tianshuo Wei, Yan Ge, Bo Peng, Yue Li, Maolin Wang, Peng Wen, Chao Yang, Ye Wei   +8 more
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Fine‐Tuned Regulation of mRNA Translation and Transport by STAU2 Condensate Facilitates Neuronal Development and Plasticity

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
STAU2 undergoes phase separation to form dynamic condensates that package target mRNAs and deliver them to the distal ends of growing neuronal dendrites. STAU2 condensates stabilize embedded mRNAs and repress their translation. Synaptic activity bidirectionally remodels STAU2 condensates, coordinating local translation of STAU2‐associated mRNAs ...
Shijing Huang, Yuanyuan Chu, Ruiqian Zhao, Siyu Li, Yu Feng, Hongdan Zheng, Yunli Xie, Tong Wang, Wenyu Wen   +8 more
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