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Ultra‐High Strength and Environmentally Stable Fluorinated Solid‐State Ion‐Conductive Elastomers with Folding‐Paper‐Structured Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Wave Energy Harvesting

open access: yesENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
In this work, a polyurethane‐based fluorinated SICEs with excellent mechanical properties (7.35 MPa and 61.4 MJ m−3), conductivity (4.2 × 10−4 S cm−1), and harsh environmental resistance were prepared by a “three birds with one stone” strategy that combines multiple interactions with fluorine effects. The paper‐folding TENG is capable of harvesting not
Zequan Li   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mini is beautiful

open access: yesInteraction Design and Architecture(s), 2017
Spatial planning projects can be conceived as processes of collective learning. Planners have been looking at games and playful approaches to support these processes.
Oswald Devisch   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aesthetics of the beautiful: Ideologic tensions in contemporary assessment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Pedagogy is an uncertain art. Yet by its very nature, contemporary teaching and learning practice typically suggests that the expert teacher must come to know their student well enough to plan and predict for educational challenges that will expand and ...
White, Elizabeth Jayne
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“Passive” Scalecraft as a State Strategy in Post‐Authoritarian Environmental Governance: A Case From South Korea

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study employs a scalar politics framework to unpack how participatory rhetoric operates statecraft in a post‐authoritarian context, thereby illuminating hybrid‐regime behavior along a continuum of environmental governance. An examination of the environmental governance of an ecotourism project in South Korea is performed using ...
Souyeon Nam
wiley   +1 more source

Small Is Not Always Beautiful [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Peer-to-peer content distribution systems have been enjoying great popularity, and are now gaining momentum as a means of disseminating video streams over the Internet.
Kohler, Eddie   +3 more
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The “Magic” of Conflict: How Participatory Governance Can Enable Transformative Climate Adaptation

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In many cases, addressing climate risks requires transformative climate adaptation (TCA) that goes beyond small adjustments to existing systems. While scholars increasingly argue that participatory governance is key and should embrace conflict rather than push for consensus to enable TCA, this assumption remains underexplored.
Dore Engbersen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archie’s beautiful adventure

open access: yesEpidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health, 2022
Archibald “Archie” Cochrane is the brilliant creator of the evidence-based medicine (EBM). His book “Effectiveness and Efficiency: random reflections on health services” is one of the fundamental texts of Medicine today.
Roberto Bucci   +2 more
doaj  

Aloe pulcherrima - a beautiful Ethiopian endemic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Aloe pulcherrima is a large-growing, cliff-dwelling species from high altitudes in Ethiopia with a unique stem branching pattern.
Walker, Colin C.
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Licensed Commoning and the Authoritarian Commons: Governing Participation in China's Community Gardens

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's environmental governance transition combines intensified vertical accountability and performance‐based management with expanding calls for public participation. However, despite growing demand for civic engagement, there remains limited understanding of how participatory environmental initiatives are structured and governed in practice.
Linjun Xie, Mengqi Shao, Gaohan Deng
wiley   +1 more source

Beautiful institution

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2014
These images were captured at the former Lennox Castle Hospital which was called, when it opened in 1936, a Certified Institution for Mental Defectives. The hospital closed in 2002.
Amy C. Davidson
doaj   +1 more source

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