the present study addresses the influence of iran’s post-revolution political structure on the formation of the country’s translated literature system. it examines the translated anglo-american novels pub-lished under two administrations in power after the islamic revolution: 1) the reformist administra-tion, which was a more liberal, leftist administration, seeking to improve iran’s relations ...

it has been reported previously that modulatory effects of pleasant and unpleasant slides on the human acoustic reflex are observed only if startle probes are presented to the left ear or with binaural presentation. the present study examined the effects of the left and the right ear stimulation on modulated startle reflex (as indexed by eyeblink component, measured at the right eye) employing ...

The present paper investigates monitoring of fatigue cracks of a metal structure using an eddy current micro sensor. Fatigue cracks tend to occur at bolt-jointed structures on an aircraft. In order to detect the damage quantitatively, a kind of change-prone micro eddy current sensor is designed and fabricated with flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) technology. A forward semi-analytical model...

Zhigang Wu 1,2,*, Yongan Huang 1,2 and Rong Chen 1,2 1 State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China; [email protected] (Y.H.); [email protected] (R.C.) 2 Flexible Electronics Research Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China * Correspondence: [email protected]...

This study’s overarching aim is to establish the areal extent and characteristics of the rapid sugarcane expansion and land use change in São Paulo state (Brazil) as a result of an increase in the demand for ethanol, using Landsat type remotely sensed data. In 2003 flex fuel automobiles started to enter the Brazilian consumer market causing a dramatic expansion of sugarcane areas from 2.57 mill...

Localizing and manipulating features such as buttons, snaps, or grommets embedded in fabrics and other flexible materials is a difficult robotics problem. Approaches that rely too much on sensing and localization that occurs before touching the material are likely to fail because the flexible material can move when the robot actually makes contact. This paper experimentally explores the possibi...

Roll-To-Roll Slot-Die Coating In article number 2212835, Jens Wenzel Andreasen and co-workers study the optical excitation during roll-to-roll slot-die coating of a semiconducting polymer that enables morphological manipulation thin-films for organic photovoltaics flexible electronics. Combined theoretical experimental techniques elucidate changes upon while thin-film solidifies. The induced in...

The potential utility of tactile sensors in manipulation has long been recognized. However, there are very few examples in the literature of systems that use tactile information any more complex than binary contact/no-contact sensors. This paper approximates a direct mapping between hand-object state and high-dimensional tactile measurements based on training data. Although it can be precise, t...

Several cell-based biological applications in microfluidic systems require simultaneous high-throughput and individual handling of cells or other bioparticles. Available chip-based tools for contactless manipulation are designed for either high-precision handling of individual particles, or high-throughput handling of ensembles of particles. In order to simultaneously perform both, we have comb...