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  • Shifting collective values: the role of rural women and gotong royong in village fund policy

    Shifting collective values: the role of rural women and gotong royong in village fund policy

    Social rationality to calculative rationality: changing perspectives on the implementation of women’s roles

    The shift from traditional gotong royong to procedural gotong royong stems from the insertion of labor-intensive schemes and the Village…

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  • Novel Cu-MXene hybrid nanofluids for the experimental investigation of thermal performance in double pipe heat exchanger

    Novel Cu-MXene hybrid nanofluids for the experimental investigation of thermal performance in double pipe heat exchanger

    The main objective of the proposed work is to enhance the convective heat transfer performance of fabricated modular double-pipe heat exchanger (without any inserts/baffles) using very low concentrated Cu-MXene hybrid nanofluids. In order to…

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  • Short naps improve subsequent learning in a high school setting

    Short naps improve subsequent learning in a high school setting

    Participants

    102 healthy 15 to 17-year-old high-school students (62 females and 40 males) from six different courses from the same school (who shared the same teacher) volunteered for the study. None of the participants reported having any history…

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  • Knowing you know nothing in the age of generative AI

    Early knowledge

    The origin story of (human) knowledge began hundreds of thousands of years ago with the transmission of ideas, art, and culture via oral communication, whether in the form of song, dance, prayer, or folklore (Kelly, 2024). Written…

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  • High-resolution high-throughput spatiotemporal strain imaging reveals loss mechanisms in a surface acoustic wave device

    High-resolution high-throughput spatiotemporal strain imaging reveals loss mechanisms in a surface acoustic wave device

    Surface acoustic wave device fabrication

    Black Y-cut LiNbO3 wafers were immersed in Caro’s acid (H2SO4:H2O2 9:1) for 10 min and then rinsed in deionized (DI) water at 80 °C. The wafers were then immersed in an RCA surface clean 1 solution,…

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  • Estimation of energy efficiency of heat pumps in residential buildings using real operation data

    Estimation of energy efficiency of heat pumps in residential buildings using real operation data

    Real-world data set

    The analyzed data encompasses a wide variety of HP models and configurations installed in residential buildings across 10 countries in Central Europe. Since the data originates from a single manufacturer, we acknowledge that…

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