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International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digitalization and emerging technologies are increasing the demand for wireless sensing and the Internet of Things (IoT), which provide opportunities for autonomous sources of electricity in the form of energy harvesting systems. This paper focuses on the challenges in hybrid piezoelectric‐electromagnetic kinetic energy harvesting systems that
Petr Sosna, Damian Gaska, Zdeněk Hadaš
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The Interplay Between Families and Schools: Immigrant and Native Differentials in Educational Outcomes [PDF]
, 2013 We examine the effects of school context on educational outlooks and outcomes of the children of immigrants, in comparison with natives in Spain, an under-represented case in the international literature and a fast growing immigration destination in ...
Soysal, YN
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Despite their controversial nature, biodiversity offsets are often used as a regulatory tool to counterbalance the impacts of land clearing on biodiversity. Offsets usually aim to achieve no net loss (NNL) of biodiversity through protection and/or restoration of habitat.
Laure‐Elise Ruoso +3 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 : Unrealistic optimism is common among people making self-evaluations while reduced optimism has been linked to increased depressive symptoms. Given the importance of optimism for adaptive functioning, surprisingly little is known about resting brain ...
Jinfeng eWu +5 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Pedestrians are one of the most vulnerable groups at the roadside, furthermore, previous research has demonstrated perceptual-motor limitations in individuals with DCD which may put these individuals at even more at risk in the context of road crossing ...
Kate Wilmut, Catherine Purcell
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Optimism and lender liability in the consumer credit market [PDF]
, 2008 Credit purchases of consumer goods are commonly made upon terms governed by an agreement between the lender and the seller. This type of purchase is generally subject to a legal principle of joint responsibility under which the lender and the seller are ...
Iossa, E, Palumbo, G
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Remote sensing studies show that ephemeral forest regeneration is widespread in the tropics, limiting the climate and biodiversity benefits from net increases in forest cover. Socioeconomic, biophysical and landscape variables can help explain the spatial distribution of reforestation reversals.
Francis H. Joyce
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Optimism as a Candidate Health Asset: Exploring Its Links With Adolescent Quality of Life in Sweden [PDF]
, 2019 This study aims to understand the role that optimism could play in the context of a health asset approach to promote adolescent health-related quality of life (HRQOL).
Benson P. L. +15 more
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Fears and realisations of employment insecurity [PDF]
, 2009 We investigate the validity of subjective data expectations of job loss and on the probability of re-employment consequent on job loss, by examining associations between expectations and realisations.
Dickerson, A., Green, F.
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On the Positive Effects of Overcon fident Self-Perception in Teams [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper, we study the individual payoff effects of overconfident self-perception in teams. In particular, we demonstrate that the welfare of an overconfident agent in a team of one rational and one overconfident agent or a team of two overconfident
Ludwig, Sandra +2 more
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