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Storage compartment
A locker is a small, usually narrow storage compartment. They are commonly found in dedicated cabinets, very often in large numbers, in various public places such as locker rooms, workplaces, schools, transport hubs and the like. They vary in size, purpose, construction, and security. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: LockerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Last Mile Innovation: The Case of the Locker Alliance NetworkInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Frozen food locker plants in the United StatesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Modified Look‐Locker inversion recovery (MOLLI) for high‐resolution T 1 mapping of the heartCited 1,265 times
- Go sideways: Three-point lockingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Single-point lockingA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store personal possessions for public use, such as in schools, railway stations, place of work, gyms, sports centers.
Noun A lockable cubicle.
Noun A storage compartment on a ship, not necessarily one that can be locked.
Noun One who locks something.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Modified Look‐Locker inversion recovery (MOLLI) for high‐resolution T 1 mapping of the heart
Shortened Modified Look-Locker Inversion recovery (ShMOLLI) for clinical myocardial T1-mapping at 1.5 and 3 T within a 9 heartbeat breathhold
Large energy soliton erbium-doped fiber laser with a graphene-polymer composite mode locker
Wavelength-tunable picosecond soliton fiber laser with Topological Insulator: Bi_2Se_3 as a mode locker
Optimization and validation of a fully‐integrated pulse sequence for modified look‐locker inversion‐recovery (MOLLI) T1 mapping of the heart
A parcel locker network as a solution to the logistics last mile problem
What's in the parcel locker? Exploring customer value in e-commerce last mile delivery
Arterial spin labeling in combination with a look‐locker sampling strategy: Inflow turbo‐sampling EPI‐FAIR (ITS‐FAIR)
🆕 Influential since 2022
Last Mile Innovation: The Case of the Locker Alliance Network
Determinants of customer satisfaction with parcel locker services in last-mile logistics
Profit-maximizing parcel locker location problem under threshold Luce model
The impact of optimal parcel locker locations on costs and the environment
B−N/B−O Contained Heterocycles as Fusion Locker in Multi‐Resonance Frameworks towards Highly‐efficient and Stable Ultra‐Narrowband Emission
📚 Books worth reading
Frozen food locker plants in the United StatesL. B. Mann · 1953
Refrigeration cold storage and ice-makingAlexander James Wallis-Tayler · 1902
Frozen food locker plantsL. B. Mann · 1947
Decorate your lockerJacqueline Lee · 2003- 📕Cold-storage facilitiesNational Research Council (U.S.). Advisory Committee on Cold-Storage Facilities. · 1963
- 📕How to build and operate a locker plantAlbert Todoroff · 1944
Frozen food storage facilities used by Illinois familiesWalter J. Wills · 1950- 📕Frozen-food locker plants in GeorgiaHarold Douglas White · 1940
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