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The influence of humid heat on morbidity of megacity Shanghai in China
Environment InternationalBackground: Increased attention has been paid to humid-heat extremes as they are projected to increase in both frequency and intensity. However, it remains unclear how compound extremes of heat and humidity affects morbidity when the climate is projected
Chen Liang +5 more
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Extracting Information from the Market to Price the Weather Derivatives [PDF]
Weather derivatives were first launched in 1996 in the United-States to allow companies to protect themselves against weather fluctuations. Even now their valuation still remains tricky. Because their underlying is not a traded asset, the weather options
Hélène Hamisultane
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Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.Hybrid WPU coatings with a hierarchical structure are constructed by first directional freezing polymerization of degradable hydrogels with a vertical channel structure and then filling these channels with aqueous WPU solution containing carbon nitride (g‐C3N4) nanosheets.
Xiaobei Zhou +8 more
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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review highlights the principle mechanisms of slipping at the microscale, linking contact mechanics with a friction behavior model for surface interfaces. Main strategies to develop anti‐slip properties to the surfaces are discussed alongside standardized testing approaches.
Sogand Abbaspoor‐Zanjani +3 more
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Weather derivatives: Concept and application for their use in South Africa [PDF]
Recent innovations in energy markets suggest the possibility of addressing agricultural risk factors by issuing derivatives on weather elements. Such instruments appear particularly attractive, as asymmetric information and loss adjustment issues do not ...
Geyser, J.M.
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Waterborne polyurethane/graphene formulations are developed as piezoresistive coatings on glass fabric to enable flexible strain sensing. The graphene‐enabled conductive network provides a stable electromechanical response under cyclic compression. The coating demonstrates reliable pressure‐dependent resistance changes, highlighting its potential for ...
Vishnu Vijayan Pillai +8 more
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Multi‐million cycle reliability for liquid metal stretchable electronics is achieved through a continuous cycle of mechanical testing, failure mode and mechanism analysis and implementing subsequent mitigation strategies. ABSTRACT Stretchable electronics that combine mechanical compliance with reliable electrical performance are essential for ...
Lennert Purnal +8 more
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Weather Risk and the Off-Farm Labor Supply of Agricultural Households in India [PDF]
As one of the measures to smooth income, this paper focuses on the diversification of labor allocation across activities. A key feature of this paper is that it pays particular attention to differences in the covariance between weather risk and ...
Ito, Takahiro, Kurosaki, Takashi
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Smart Closed‐Loop Systems in Personalized Healthcare: Advances and Outlook
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.A smart closed‐loop e‐textile integrates multimodal sensing, onboard processing, wireless communication, and wearable power to enable real‐time physiological/biochemical monitoring and feedback‐controlled therapy. ABSTRACT Smart textiles represent a revolutionary frontier in healthcare, seamlessly blending fabric and advanced technologies to create ...
Safoora Khosravi +12 more
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Climatic changes and weather risk management in agriculture [PDF]
Anali Ekonomskog fakulteta u Subotici, 2016 Despite the constant development of the system of forecasting unpredicted events and risks, there are many economic sectors where revenues depend directly on the wheather variables.
Stevanović Simo +2 more
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