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Women’s sex-toy parties: Technology, orgasm, and commodification [PDF]

Sexuality and Culture, 2001
This article presents participant-observation research from five female-only sex-toy parties. We situate the sale of sex toys in the context of in-home marketing to women, the explosion of a sex industry, and the emergence of lifestyle and body politics.
McCaughey, Martha, French, Christina
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Intelligent Acousto‐Electrical Metamaterials (IAM) for Sound Source Detection

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Our proposed metamaterial concept enables sound source detection using a single material, in contrast to conventional arrays that require dozens or even hundreds of transducers. We show that the coupled acoustic–vibrational–electrical responses in piezoelectric metamaterials give rise to topology‐governed charge transport, producing distinct voltage ...
Victor Couëdel, Haotian Lu, Jiayan Zhang, Desheng Yao, Ananya Bhardwaj, Ramiro Contreras, Karim Sabra, Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng   +7 more
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TRADITIONAL CHILDREN’S TOYS IN MUGLA / MUĞLA’DA GELENEKSEL ÇOCUK OYUNCAKLARI [PDF]

Folklor/Edebiyat, 2015
Toy is a tool necessary to briefly describe the child’s play. Depending on the developments in industry and technology fields, toys are changed with materials they are produced and both forms of production.
Bircan Kalaycı Durdu*
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Design of repeating projectile toy based on bistable spring propulsion [PDF]

, 2007
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 41).Recently, bistable springs have been proven as a viable propulsion method for the standard 1.75" foam balls used in ...
Blanco, Matthew C. (Matthew Corwin)
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Switchable Magnonic Crystals Based on Spin Crossover/CrSBr Heterostructures

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Multiscale modeling is employed to investigate the functionality of a light‐controlled, tunable magnonic crystal based on spin‐crossover Fe‐pz molecules integrated with a monolayer of CrSBr. Ab initio simulations confirm that the molecules remain functional on the CrSBr surface, while a semiclassical elastic model demonstrates that light‐induced ...
Andrei Shumilin, Sourav Dey, Denisa Coltuneac, Laurentiu Stoleriu, José J. Baldoví   +4 more
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An AI‐Enabled All‐In‐One Visual, Proximity, and Tactile Perception Multimodal Sensor

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Targeting integrated multimodal perception of robots, an AI‐enabled all‐in‐one multimodal sensor is proposed. This sensor is capable of perceiving three types of modalities, including vision, proximity, and tactility. By toggling an ultraviolet light and adjusting the camera focus, it switches smoothly between multiple perceptual modalities, enabling ...
Menghao Pu, Tiyong Zhao, Lingxi Zhang, Chaoqun Han, Zhiping Chai, Yifan Zhou, Han Ding, Zhigang Wu   +7 more
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Strong‐Magnetic Flexible Composites for Magnetically Responsive Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This perspective provides an overview of the performance mechanisms, preparation methods, and applications of strong magnetic flexible composite materials in soft actuators (such as gripping, movement, and sensing), and further explores current opportunities and challenges.
Wenwen Li, Shuai Liu, Xinyi Wang, Xinglong Gong, Shouhu Xuan   +4 more
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Boys and Their Toys? Masculinity, Technology, and Work [PDF]

International Labor and Working-Class History, 1998
workers' objections to protective policies in American industries during World War Two. Arwen Mohun (University of Delaware) addressed the provocative question of why workers sometimes willingly risked their health, discussing the "calculus of risk" as a social construct shaped by both labor and capital.
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Intelligent Sky Guardians (InSkyGuard): An Aerial Robotic Swarm for Autonomous Detection and Entrapment of Rogue Multirotors

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Intelligent Sky Guardians (InSkyGuard) is introduced as a four‐drone swarm that autonomously detects, tracks, and safely captures rogue drones using a coordinated net system. Computer vision and leader–follower control architecture enable synchronized enclosure, while integrated failsafes enhance system reliability. Validated through closed‐environment
Joshua Hastings, Levanya Dewanarayana, Iline Shaju, Haider Al‐Wizni, Sampson Marquis, Weicheng Huang, Pooya Sareh   +6 more
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Knockout of a single Pax6 gene (toy but not ey) leads to compound eye deficiency and small head in honeybees

Communications Biology
The compound eyes are crucial to honeybees, playing pivotal roles in color recognition, orientation, localization, and navigation processes. The development of compound eyes is primarily mastered by an evolutionarily conserved transcription factor Pax6 ...
Xiaofen Hu, Fuping Cheng, Zhixian Gong, Kaixin Qin, Tingting Shan, Wenwen Li, Lizhen Zhang, Weiyu Yan, Zhijiang Zeng, Zilong Wang   +9 more
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