Flexible electro-hydraulic power chips by Chao Zhang, Jionghao Chen, Changyi Xu, Tairan He, Xiaolong Zhang, Junhui Zhang, Ximing Sun, Bing Xu, Yi Zhu, Huayong Yang

“…The proposed strategy is an important advance towards low-cost, mass-manufactured, and standard universal fluid power components for the next generation of multi-functional, autonomous soft systems.…”
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The Doctrine of Double Effect: An Aid in Decision-Making by Pavol Dancák

“…Such cases can be found in applied ethics: bio-medical ethics, business ethics, and legal ethics, but also in other areas of human activity, too, most recently,  in debates, concerning the use of autonomous vehicles or autonomous machines in general. …”
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Design of a Cost-Effective Ultrasound Force Sensor and Force Control System for Robotic Extra-Body Ultrasound Imaging by Yixuan Zheng, Hongyuan Ning, Eason Rangarajan, Aban Merali, Adam Geale, Lukas Lindenroth, Zhouyang Xu, Weizhao Wang, Philipp Kruse, Steven Morris, Liang Ye, Xinyi Fu, Kawal Rhode, Richard James Housden

“…These results demonstrate the potential of the system to provide safe, precise, and autonomous robotic ultrasound imaging in real-world conditions.…”
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A Framework for Resilient Community Microgrids: Review of Operational Strategies and Performance Metrics by Joy Dalmacio Billanes, Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen, Zheng Ma

“…The growing frequency of extreme weather events and grid disruptions highlights the urgent need for resilient energy systems. Decentralized and autonomous, community microgrids offer reliable and adaptable solutions. …”
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A Computational Framework for Optimal Adaptive Function Allocation in a Human-Autonomy Teaming Scenario by Sooyung Byeon, Joonwon Choi, Inseok Hwang

“…HAT involves cooperation between humans and autonomous agents to achieve common goals. As humans and autonomous agents possess different capabilities, function allocation plays a crucial role in ensuring effective HAT. …”
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Mixed-Effects Model to Assess the Effect of Disengagements on Speed of an Automated Shuttle with Sensors for Localization, Navigation, and Obstacle Detection by Abhinav Grandhi, Ninad Gore, Srinivas S. Pulugurtha

“…The findings serve as vital insights for advancing the reliability and safety of autonomous systems through targeted improvements in technology and infrastructure.…”
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Risk factors and preventive role of vaccination in adult tetanus fatality: a systematic review of reported cases (1990-2024) and meta-analysis by Selin Kolsuz, Deniz Güllü, Koçer Dilan Karahan, Önder Ergönül

“…The analysis focused on risk factors such as autonomic dysfunction, opisthotonus, incubation time, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, and dermatological conditions. …”
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Automated Quantification of Neuropad Improves Its Diagnostic Ability in Patients with Diabetic Neuropathy by Georgios Ponirakis, Hassan Fadavi, Ioannis N. Petropoulos, Shazli Azmi, Maryam Ferdousi, Mohammad A. Dabbah, Ahmad Kheyami, Uazman Alam, Omar Asghar, Andrew Marshall, Mitra Tavakoli, Ahmed Al-Ahmar, Saad Javed, Maria Jeziorska, Rayaz A. Malik

“…The optimal cut-off points were 90% for the detection of autonomic dysfunction (DB-HRV) and 80% for small fibre neuropathy (CNFD). …”
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Power consumption modeling and optimization for NB-IoT eDRX by Xin JIAN, Yixiao WEI, Yuqin LIU, Jian SONG, Xiaoping ZENG, Xiaoheng TAN

“…To extend the battery life of massive machine type devices (MTD),narrow-band Internet of things (NB-IoT) system extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) mechanism of LTE to the maximum as well as introduced a lower power state named as power saving mode (PSM).Three Markov models were established for three typical NB-IoT traffic scenarios,which called mobile autonomous reporting periodic report (MAR-P),mobile autonomous reporting exception report (MAR-E),software update/reconfiguration (SUR).The states of each Markov model were the working status of MTDs,including connected,idle and PSM state,in which the connected state was divided into random access state and data translating/receiving state to further evaluate the additional power consumption caused by collisions from massive MTDs concurrent access.Thereby,the power consumption and delay models with respect to each traffic scenarios were derived.Since the frequency of MAR-P traffic was far greater than the other two,the battery life of this traffic case with its optimal design choice was comprehensively analyzed.Numerical results show that,the battery life is mostly influenced by transmission period,maximum number of random access attempts,maximum number of data transmissions and traffic load,which can be maximized by appropriate parameters setting up.These works provide good references for NB-IoT device behavior modeling and optimization design.…”
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The spatial relationship and influence mechanism of traditional villages and intangible cultural heritage: a case study of the upper reaches of the Yellow River Basin by Qianming Xue, Yuehao Huang

“…TVs exhibit a “multi-core aggregation, dispersed concentration” pattern, with a high degree of imbalance at the provincial (or autonomous region) level. In contrast, ICH shows a “sparse south, dense center, and sparse north” distribution, with a lower degree of imbalance at the provincial level. (2) Although there is generally a high degree of spatial alignment between TVs and ICH, but at the provincial (or autonomous region) level, three types of regional displacements have been identified: high positive displacement, low positive displacement, and high negative displacement. (3) Factors such as altitude, river systems, temperature conditions, regional economy, accessibility, population density, urbanization rate, cultural characteristics, and funding policies significantly influence the spatial distribution of TVs and ICH. urbanization rate has a common influence and explanatory power on the spatial distribution of both TVsand ICH in the YRB, with altitude, financial policies, cultural history, and other factors having secondary influence and explanatory power.These factors are crucial in determining the pathways for their integrated development.…”
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Human-Machine Interface for a Smart Wheelchair by Amiel Hartman, Vidya K. Nandikolla

“…The LabVIEW cluster is developed for real-time autonomous path planning and sensor data processing. …”
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Philosophical Review of Artificial Intelligence for Society 5.0 by Ggaliwango, Marvin, Tamale, Micheal, Kanagwa, Benjamin, Jjingo, Daudi

“…However, the hardware and software of a fully autonomous, learning, reasoning AI system must mimic the processes and subsystems that exist within the human brain [14, 15].…”
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Laboratory practices in the teaching of basic biomedical sciences. Before or after seminars? by Sandra Williams Serrano, Luis Alberto Mass Sosa

“…New questions are made about whether this positioning could modify or not, the teacher´s position as a classroom researcher and consequently exercise autonomous influences for the development of the aforementioned abilities in the students, in accordance with the requirements of the new academic formation plans.…”
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La socialización frustrada de la industria del Calzado en Barcelona (1936-1939) by Joël Delhom

“…We focus on the factors that limited the autonomous action of the CNT, the resistances its Agrupación del Calzado had to deal with, the lack of leather and the limitations of the militants in charge. …”
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THE EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION’ BANKING SECTOR INTEGRATION: PROBLEMS AND THE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTIONS by T. Blokhina, A. Gladkaya, A. Kostina

“…Nowadays they are currently developing autonomously, despite the steps taken to integrate them has revealed. …”
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Permanence and Positive Periodic Solutions of a Discrete Delay Competitive System by Wenjie Qin, Zhijun Liu

“…A discrete time non-autonomous two-species competitive system with delays is proposed, which involves the influence of many generations on the density of species population. …”
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Protocols for Robotic Telescope Networks by Alain Klotz

“…Autonomous robotic observatories can use modern communications to receive pertinent information from institutes that generate events to observe (e.g., supernovae, near-earth asteroids, gravitational lensings, and gamma-ray bursts). …”
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Dynamics of a Class of Higher Order Difference Equations by Bratislav D. Iricanin

“…We prove that all positive solutions of the autonomous difference equation xn=αxn−k/(1+xn−k+f(xn−1,…,xn−m)), n∈ℕ0, where k,m∈ℕ, and f is a continuous function satisfying the condition β min{u1,…,um}≤f(u1,…,um)≤β max{u1,…,um} for some β∈(0,1), converge to the positive equilibrium x¯=(α−1)/(β+1) if α>1.…”
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Cultura política do primeiro liberalismo constitucional. A adesão das câmaras no processo de autonomização do Brasil by Iara Lis Schiavinatto

“…The article is about the work of municipal governments as autonomous political bodies in the Brazilian constitutional process in 1820-26. …”
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Role of Housing Life-Support Technologies in the Development of Post-Urban Lifestyles by A. V. Ermishina, G. N. Donchevsky, L. V. Klimenko

“…Materials of conducted empirical investigation have demonstrated that innovative technological solutions and modern autonomous eco-friendly housing lifesupport technologies take an important place in post-urban representatives’ socio-economic activity models.…”
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