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Optical Flow Enables Hand Tracking With EyeGlove Low‐Cost Cameras in Confined Environments

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A cost‐effective (<£150) hand‐wearable stereo vision system, EyeGlove, is proposed to support visual inspection in confined environments. The system integrates disjointed low‐cost cameras to enable dexterous camera manipulation and wearable display unit for real‐time interaction.
Erhui Sun, Xin Dong, Dragos Axinte, Andy Norton   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff, Tobia Lakes, Marten Graubner, Axel Werwatz, Silke Hüttel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does education policy affect teachers' learning needs? An international comparison of trends in teachers' continuing professional learning needs in secondary schools in Australia, England, Japan and the Netherlands

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Education policy changes are believed to influence teachers' continuing professional learning (CPL) needs, but there is limited empirical evidence to support these claims. This lack of deep understanding has significant practical implications. This study used a new circular conceptual framework to analyse teachers' CPL needs. Leveraging public
Rikkert M. van der Lans, Remmert Daas, Joost Jansen in de Wal, Elaine Wilson, Noriyuki Inoue, Tracy L. Durksen, Frank Cornelissen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Operationalising global education in teacher education and training: A model for contextualising terminology

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite a growing international consensus that students need to be provided with the type of education that effectively prepares them to engage in and contribute to their globalised world, and that teachers need to be appropriately trained to facilitate this teaching and learning, ‘global education’ continues to be hindered by a lack of ...
Sarah‐Louise Jones, Miriam Ham, Karena Menzie‐Ballantyne   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Grey Zone of Stakeholder Engagement: Misalignment as a Manifestation of Greyness in Stakeholder Collaboration

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study identifies and conceptualises the grey zone of stakeholder engagement and explores how it manifests in a collaborative context related to the promotion of a circular economy. While prior research on stakeholder engagement has highlighted the positive, value‐creating bright side or the harmful dark side of stakeholder engagement, we ...
Annika Blomberg, Anna Hannula, Johanna Kujala   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Initiating Market Formation Through Local Policy Innovation: Plot Handover as a Driver for Circular Construction

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition to circular construction suffers from uncertainties related to costs, market realities, supply, regulations and expertise using secondary materials in building projects. Uncertainties are large, and resolving them needs policy interventions.
Erkki‐Jussi Nylén, Tommi Halonen
wiley   +1 more source

“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
wiley   +1 more source

Social Sustainability in Circular Bioeconomy Business Models: Insights From Argentina

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on circular bioeconomy business models (CBEBM) has largely prioritised environmental and economic aspects, leaving out the social pillar. To address this gap, this paper analyses to what extent and in what ways social sustainability is integrated into CBEBM, based on 12 cases from northern Argentina, a region with high potential for ...
Celina N. Amato, Mónica Buraschi, Karen M. Siegel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually ...
Sarah Hitzler, Jonas Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source