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Challenges of Bank Consolidation to the Central Bank of Nigeria: A Descriptive Analysis [PDF]

Consolidation is one of the trends that characterize banking industry restructuring in Nigeria. However, the emerging scale of bank mergers raises challenging policy questions that must be addressed by policy makers in the course of promoting economic ...
Ahmad Bello, Dogarawa
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Self‐Powered All‐in‐One Wearable Bioelectronics Driven by Pneumatic Energy Buffering of Daily Footsteps

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A pneumatic energy‐buffering strategy transforms transient and intermittent footsteps into quasi‐continuous electrical energy for a self‐powered wearable biosensing platform. The footwear‐integrated air‐pumping harvester, combined with the rationally designed power‐management system, powers a wearable ankle PPG device with reduced motion artifacts ...
Ji‐Seok Kim, Tae Woog Kang, Hyunjoon Yoo, Jawon Ha, Yunuo Huang, Hee Han, Chi Won Ahn, Woon‐Hong Yeo, Il‐Kwon Oh   +8 more
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Integration and consolidation in EU banking - an unfinished business [PDF]

The objective of this paper is to review the obstacles to cross-border integration and consolidation, which confront banks operating within the EU. Theoretical and empirical evidence supports the view that integration and consolidation in the banking ...
Christoph Walkner, Jean-Pierre Raes
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An Interpretable, Data‐Driven, Hierarchical Multi‐Domain Fusion Framework for Classification and Motor Function Scoring in Chronic Ankle Instability

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
An AI‐enabled digital twin framework integrates wearable EMG sensing with hierarchical multi‐domain fusion to classify chronic ankle instability, distinguish clinically relevant subtypes, and generate continuous motor function scores. Clinically interpretable functional stratification and SHAP‐based biomarker analysis provide transparent decision ...
Tianle Jie, Datao Xu, Zhifeng Zhou, Bas Van Hooren, Huiyu Zhou, Yi Yuan, Xiangli Gao, Monèm Jemni, Liangliang Xiang, Meizi Wang, Justin Fernandez, Tibor J. Goda, Yaodong Gu   +12 more
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Thermodynamics and Kinetics in Host Design for Dendrite‐Free Zinc Metal Anodes

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes recent advances in host design strategies for high‐performance zinc metal anodes, and deeply elucidates their thermodynamic and kinetic design principles from the perspective of surface modification, interface engineering, and spatial confinement.
Peng Xiao Sun, Quanwei Ma, Yangyang Liu, Longhai Zhang, Rui Wang, Yu‐Hui Zhu, Tengfei Zhou, Sen Xin, Le Yu, Chaofeng Zhang   +9 more
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Freestanding Hierarchical‐Porous BCZT Thin Films Enable Efficient Ultrasonic Energy Harvesting in Soft Tissue

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Freestanding hierarchical‐porous BCZT thin films integrate a compliant porous surface with a dense piezoceramic backbone to balance mechanical reliability, voltage sensitivity, and acoustic coupling. The films enable stable wearable pulse‐wave monitoring and enhanced tissue‐coupled ultrasonic energy harvesting, offering a promising route toward soft ...
Zifan Li, Shengwei Gao, Wang Hong, Yuxin Chen, Yiyang Gu, Xu Wang, Chen Tang, Ying Hong, Xuemu Li, Xiaodong Yan, Yi Zheng, Yiming Liu, Junchen Liao, Biao Wang, Shiyuan Liu   +14 more
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Experimental Demonstration of Temporally Aware Fault‐Tolerant Sensor Fusion Using Memristive Associative Learning

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
In dynamic driving scenarios, the proposed approach ensures only temporally aligned sensor inputs to make driving decisions, preventing false activations. By enabling selective hardware‐level learning, it achieves fast, reliable responses under noisy conditions.
Kapil Bhardwaj, Ashfak Nehal, Dmitrii Semenov, Roman Sotner, Sayani Majumdar   +4 more
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Atomic Scale Control of Thermal Conductivity in LaMnO3/SrMnO3 Superlattices

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Interface‐dominated cross‐plane thermal transport in [(LaMnO3)m/(SrMnO3)n]10 superlattices can be controlled by the octahedral rotation/tilt angle φOOR of the MnO6 octahedra, which as well is controlled by the “m/n” ratio. ABSTRACT We report atomic scale structure and phonon thermal transport in (LaMnO3)m/(SrMnO3)n/SrTiO3(100) superlattices (LMO/SMO ...
H. Ulrichs, V. Roddatis, U. Roß, J. P. Bange, D. Meyer, S. Lopatin, V. Radisch, D. Metternich, I. V. Maznichenko, S. Ostanin, R. Egoavil, I. Lazić, V. Moshnyaga   +12 more
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Minimal Migration Virtual Machine (VM) Selection Algorithm in Dynamic VM Consolidation

Virtual machine consolidation in cloud data centers is a strategy to optimize the utilization of physical server resources. Virtual machine consolidation involves the migration of virtual machines from the overloaded and under loaded hosts. Planning the migration of virtual machines involve the decision of virtual machine selection and placement.
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Banking industry's consolidation: what's a small business to do? [PDF]

Relaxation of the rules governing where banks can expand and new technologies for providing banking services have contributed to rapid consolidation in the industry. In addition, the number of commercial banks in the United States has been shrinking, and
Loretta J. Mester
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