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Recent Advances of Slip Sensors for Smart Robotics
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review summarizes recent progress in robotic slip sensors across mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, magnetic, and acoustic mechanisms, offering a comprehensive reference for the selection of slip sensors in robotic applications. In addition, current challenges and emerging trends are identified to advance the development of robust, adaptive,
Xingyu Zhang +8 more
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Defining And Measuring Green FDI: An Exploratory Review Of Existing Work And Evidence [PDF]
, 2011 This paper was developed at the request of the OECD Working Party of the Investment Committee to document efforts to date to define and measure green FDI and to investigate the practicability of various possible definitions, as well as to identify ...
Golub, Stephen S. +2 more
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Response Of The Dupi Tila Aquifer to intensive pumping in Dhaka, Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2003 This paper focuses on the water-quantity issues facing Dhaka because of the rapid exploitation of the Dupi Tila aquifer. Dhaka is one of the world’s largest groundwater-dependent cities, relying on water withdrawn from this underlying semiconfined sand ...
Kazi, Matin Ahmed +2 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Reclaimed water: Sewage effluents as source of irrigation water attracting increasing attention
California Agriculture, 1957 About 10% of the developed water supply in California is used for domestic or industrial purposes and 90% for crop irrigation.
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SOLAR THERMAL SYSTEMS: CURRENT SITUATION AND AMBITIOUS GOALS
Nonconventional Technologies Review, 2020 Solar thermal energy is a straightforward application of renewable energy. The unique advantage of solar heating and cooling technologies is that they are compatible with nearly all sources of back-up heat and almost universally applicable due to their ...
Nikolaos Taousanidis +2 more
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The prospects of rainwater harvesting in the Ho CHi Minh City [PDF]
, 2015 Wisely using natural water resources to serve human needs plays a decisive role in ensuring water and food security. In the natural water cycle, rainwater is considered as a valuable renewable resource.
Dao, Phan +2 more
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China’s rising hydropower demand challenges water sector [PDF]
, 2015 Demand for hydropower is increasing, yet the water footprints (WFs) of reservoirs and hydropower, and their contributions to water scarcity, are poorly understood.
AY Hoekstra +25 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Grain‐like Zr3+‐ZrO2 and Pt single atoms are integrated into an S‐scheme Zr3+‐ZrO2@g‐C3N4 heterostructure to enable efficient visible‐light‐driven seawater hydrogen production. The combined effect of Pt single‐atom sites and the S‐scheme charge‐transfer pathway accelerates carrier separation, preserves strong redox ability, and markedly enhances ...
Hezheng Sun +8 more
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Mapping the “Supply–Demand–Flow” of Ecosystem Services for Ecosystem Management in China
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study develops a “supply–demand–flow” framework clarifies how ecosystem services move between regions by distinguishing potential and actual supply and demand. Using integrated biophysical–socioeconomic modeling, nine services in China were mapped.
Yikun Zhang +3 more
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