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World Development Indicators 2012
, 2012 World Development Indicators 2012 is a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about development and the quality of people's lives. Organized around six themes, world
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Environment Matters at the World Bank, 2009 Annual Review : Banking on Biodiversity [PDF]
, 2010 This issue of environment matters celebrates the 2010 international year of biodiversity and describes some of the challenges and opportunities in protecting biodiversity for the benefit of humankind. From
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This study explores how information processing is distributed between brains and bodies through a codesign approach. Using the “backpropagation through soft body” framework, brain–body coupling agents are developed and analyzed across several tasks in which output is generated through the agents’ physical dynamics.
Hiroki Tomioka +3 more
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Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
, 2004 In Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics would have on metaphysics.
Epperson, Michael
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.An enhanced universal gripper combining rigid mechanics with self‐adaptable fingers is presented for industrial automation. The novel six‐bar linkage with integrated compliant pad eliminates mechanical interference while enabling passive shape adaptation.
Muhammad Usman Khalid +7 more
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A report on the panel discussion: Balkans – „the soft underbelly of Europe”? Lodz, November 21, 2016
Przegląd Nauk Historycznych, 2017 -
Sławomir Lucjan Szczesio
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WALL-E’s world: animating Badiou’s philosophy [PDF]
, 2010 This article illustrates the philosophy of Alain Badiou through Pixar’s 2008 animation ‘WALL-E’. The fictional story tells of a toxic planet Earth long abandoned following an ecological disaster.
Ian Graham Ronald Shaw, Shaw, I.
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Origami‐Inspired Structural Design for Aquatic‐Terrestrial Amphibious Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work presents a lightweight amphibious origami robot actuated by a single shape memory alloy wire. A rigid foldable origami structure with displacement amplification enables efficient terrestrial crawling and aquatic swimming. The addition of fan‐shaped units allows controllable turning in both environments.
Weiqi Liu +5 more
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ReligionsIn answering the following two important questions about forgetting or forgetfulness—Can a “happy forgetting” be possible? Can forgetfulness, including (non-Western) Daoist-Zhuangzian forgetfulness, be a virtue?—this article takes a cross-cultural ...
Youru Wang
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Pohyb života a svět. O fenomenologii a metafyzice světa u Jana Patočky
Reflexe, 2018 The new interpretation of the concept of the natural world in J. Patočka, introduced by R. Barbaras, as opposed to the interpretation of his philosophy as the synthesis of the philosophy of consciousness or reflective philosophy in E. Husserl, and of the
Karel Novotný
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