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Robotics for Crop Pollination: Recent Advances and Future Direction

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is great interest in alternative pollination strategies for crop production in the face of climate change and perennial threats to the traditional pollination mechanisms. This review explores the potential of robotic pollination as a promising solution to these challenges affecting crop fertilization, agricultural sustainability, and ...
Ranjan Sapkota, Matthew D. Whiting, Dawood Ahmed, Manoj Karkee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Restoring Lateral Connectivity to Anthropogenic Riverscapes: Six Lessons From Stage Zero

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Centuries of river modification, particularly straightening and incision, have severely reduced lateral connectivity between rivers and their floodplains. As a result, Stage 0 riverscapes, characterised by high lateral connectivity (e.g., anastomosing or wetland riverscapes), are now rare in anthropogenic landscapes.
Richard J. Mason, Matthew F. Johnson, Ben Eardley, Matthew J. Hemsworth, Arnaud Foret, Luca Mao, Matt Parr, Alan Puttock, Richard E. Brazier   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic Impact of Income Inequality on Environmental Quality in Malaysia: Insights for Climate Action Using a Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology Framework

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the dynamic influence of income inequality on environmental quality in Malaysia and offers evidence‐based recommendations for climate action and policy. Using annual data from 1990 to 2022, the analysis utilizes the Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT) framework combined with ...
Masahina Sarabdeen, Ahmad Mohammadi, Rafia Afroz, Hawazen Zam Almugren   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The past century of massive increases in human population and resource use has seen many undesirable environmental effects, ranging from biodiversity loss to climate change. But a research gap exists, as the ultimate causes are often not described with precision or mentioned at all.
Mark Keegan, Anastasia Pseiridis, Philip Cafaro, Jane O'Sullivan, William Rees, Estelle Monique Sidze, Lawrence Whitmore, Enrique J. Derlindati, Mohammad Mainul Islam, Khaoula Houssini, S. Irudaya Rajan   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Small‐Scale Magnetic Soft Robots for Medical Applications: From Laboratory to Clinical Use

SmartBot, EarlyView.
Small‐scale magnetic soft robots are emerging as promising platforms for minimally invasive diagnosis and therapy in complex in vivo environments. This review compares untethered and tethered medical magnetic robots in parallel across five translational stages, from basic performance testing to clinical evaluation.
Xingxing Ke, Shizhi Li, Tianrui Zhang, Yue Zhong, Songyang Li, Shuo Zhang, Zhiping Chai, Menghao Pu, Zisheng Zong, Haochen Yong, Xingxing Dong, Lanting Huang, Zhen Deng, Shuaizheng Yan, Yue Zhang, Zhaoju Zhu, Mingzhu Zhu, Linze Li, Ruiquan Chen, Shu Zhang, Chong Wu, Di Wu, Lei Yang, Rui Chen, Tongzhi Niu, Hongling Qin, Han Ding, Bingwei He, Siqi Wu, Zhigang Wu   +29 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Compact Annular Electrostatic Clutch Joint: Dynamic Response Modeling and Time‐Sharing Control for Underactuated Robots

SmartBot, EarlyView.
Electrostatic clutches offer programmable variable stiffness for multi‐DOF robots, but their continuous motion is usually bottlenecked by spatial constraints and detachment delays. Here, the authors report a compact annular electrostatic clutch joint with a biphasic amplitude‐frequency modulation strategy to rapidly mitigate residual polarization ...
Haochen Yong, Jian Wang, Zhisheng Xia, Zhexuan Li, Han Ding, Zhigang Wu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Driving Drugs Deeper: Force‐Driven Microneedle Systems for Active Therapy and Their Road Towards Clinical Implementation

Small, EarlyView.
Force‐driven microneedles are presented as active therapeutic microdevices that overcome the diffusion limits of conventional patches. By integrating gas generation, magnetic actuation, cavitation, or iontophoresis, these systems drive payloads deeper into tissue, enabling faster, more controlled delivery and highlighting key design principles and ...
Majed Amini, Phoebe Li, Hamed Shahsavan, Mahla Poudineh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Concrete with a very high number of load cycles—Identification of stress levels for efficient investigation of fatigue behavior

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Fatigue stresses are receiving increasing attention in structural engineering, particularly in the design of increasingly slender structures. However, the mechanical response of concrete—particularly its fatigue behavior under very high numbers of load cycles—is still scarcely understood.
Kerstin Willers, Lutz Gerlach, Frank Dehn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Serviceability reserves of historic reinforced concrete slabs implications for structural reuse

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract The transition to a circular economy in the construction sector requires reliable methods to assess whether existing reinforced concrete elements can be reused in new load‐bearing structures. A central question is whether slabs designed according to historical standards also meet today's serviceability requirements.
Robin Mecka, Freek P. Bos, Oliver Fischer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mercury Content and Screening Exposure Assessment in Sports Food Supplements. [PDF]

Toxics
Puścion-Jakubik A, Jabłonka D, Wojciuk D, Markiewicz-Żukowska R, Socha K.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source