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Race, Class, and Access to Civil Justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
After many years of inattention, policymakers are now focused on troubling statistics indicating that members of poor and minority groups are less likely than their higher-income counterparts to seek help when they experience a civil justice problem ...
Greene, Sara Sternberg
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Physical Origin of Temperature Induced Activation Energy Switching in Electrically Conductive Cement

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
The temperature‐induced Arrhenius activation energy switching phenomenon of electrical conduction in electrically conductive cement originates from structural degradation within the biphasic ionic‐electronic conduction architecture and shows percolation‐governed characteristics: pore network opening dominates the low‐percolation regime with downward ...
Jiacheng Zhang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Civil Society Volunteering Patterns in Africa: An Analysis of the Civicus Civil Society Index 2008-2011 Findings on Volunteerism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The State of Civil Society 2011, published by CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, April 2012, is the first report on the changing health and state of civil ...

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Coupled Above‐ and Belowground Ecosystem Stability Worldwide

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Are the worlds above and below our feet in sync? This global exploration reveals an entangled fate between above‐ and belowground ecosystem stability. It identifies arid regions as hotspots for this coupling and highlights temperature stability as a vital safeguard for maintaining ecosystem balance across our warming planet.
Zexin Meng   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Waste Tire Application in Concrete Structures

open access: yesAceh International Journal of Science and Technology, 2017
The waste tire is produced more than 10 million tons every year in the world. This problem needs serious treatment to eliminate the waste tires. This work is aimed to recycle the waste tire in concrete as a reinforcement.
Agus Maryoto   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Democracy promotion and civil society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The annual Global Civil Society Yearbooks provide an indispensable guide to global civil society or civic participation and action around the world. This year, the Yearbook will focus on communicative power and democracy, investigating different forms of
Ishkanian, Armine
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A Phoenix in Flames? Portfolio Choice and Violence in Civil War in Rural Burundi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war. Macro-economic evidence on economic legacies of civil war suggests that civil wars, while obviously disastrous in the short run, do ...
Nillesen, E.E.M., Verwimp, P.
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Visualizing and Quantifying Impact with Mechanochromic Sensing Paints Based on Self‐Assembled Polydiacetylene‐Silk Core‐Shell Vesicles

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Tracking physical impacts is important in many fields. Self‐assembled microparticles made from polydiacetylene and silk fibroin that change color from blue to red when hit can provide an alternative approach to traditional mechanical transducers, quantitatively visualizing impact with responses ranging from <100 to 770 N.
Marco Lo Presti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnic Polarization, Potential Conflict, and Civil Wars

open access: yes, 2005
This paper analyzes the relationship between ethnic fractionalization, polarization, and conflict. In recent years many authors have found empirical evidence that ethnic fractionalization has a negative effect on growth.
Jose G. Montalvo, Marta Reynal-Querol
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Australian Government guiding principles for civil-military-police interaction in international disaster and conflict management [PDF]

open access: yes
The Australian Government’s Guiding Principles for Civil-Military-Police Interaction in International Disaster and Conflict Management (the Guiding Principles) has been developed by the Australian Civil-Military Centre (ACMC) in collaboration with the ...
Australian Civil-Military Centre
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