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The Significance of the European Citizens' Initiative for Pan-European Participatory Democracy [PDF]
, 2013 The Lisbon Treaty has introduced a new Article 11 of the Treaty on European Union (TUE) that creates a European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) allowing one million citizens from a significant number of member states to invite the European Commission to ...
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Politics, Civil Society and Participation
, 2016 The topic “Politics, Civil Society and Participation” is dedicated to the fundamental question: How do media and communications practices within European cultures change with their environment? This volume consists of the intellectual work of the 2015 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School, organized in cooperation with the European ...
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A Machine Learning Model for Interpretable PECVD Deposition Rate Prediction
Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.This study develops six machine learning models (k‐nearest neighbors, support vector regression, decision tree, random forest, CatBoost, and backpropagation neural network) to predict SiNx deposition rates in plasma‐enhanced chemical vapor deposition using hybrid production and simulation data.
Yuxuan Zhai +8 more
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Targeting poverty through community-based public works programs [PDF]
Since the transition to democracy, South African public works programs are to involve community participation, and be targeted to the poor and women. This paper examines the targeting performance of seven programs in Western Cape Province, and analyzes ...
Adato, Michelle, Haddad, Lawrence James
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Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.The hydration behavior of C3S in seawater‐relevant solutions is studied based on experiments, boundary nucleation and growth (BNG) modeling, and machine learning. The main ions included in seawater modify hydration mechanisms, with MgCl2 showing the strongest acceleration effect at the same concentration.
Yanjie Sun +6 more
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Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios +4 more
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Civil society, public action and accountability in Africa [PDF]
This paper examines the potential role of civil society action in increasing state accountability for development in Sub-Saharan Africa. It further develops the analytical framework of the World Development Report 2004 on accountability relationships, to
Devarajan, Shantayanan +2 more
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Civil society participation in city governance [PDF]
Biblioteka Regionalisty, 2021 openaire +1 more source
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Overview of the proposed Gate‐Align‐SED, including two stages of training: (1) Mean‐Teacher SSL Training; and (2) Enhancer Model Training. In complex real‐world environments such as disaster monitoring, effective sound event detection (SED) is often hindered by the presence of noise and limited labeled data.
Jieli Chen +4 more
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Sociedade civil e democracia: o Grupo de Visegrado em perspetiva comparada
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2019 This article aims to understand the influence of civil society on the quality of democracy in the Visegrad Group countries (Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic). To do so, the evolution of civil society in these countries was mapped, and the
Mariana Carmo Duarte
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