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PARTICIPATION, CIVIL SOCIETY AND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2003 In 1994 South Africa became a democracy with a government elected by the people for the people. Citizens taking control of their own lives is a general goal of a democracy.
Neeta Gathiram
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TreeSpider: In‐Canopy Exploration With Tether‐Based Aerial Modular Arms
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A tethered drone with perching arms and a 360° ring enables unprecedented maneuverability within dense forest canopies. By dynamically adjusting tether length and decoupling pitch from the frame, it navigates between branches, senses multiple trees, and interacts physically with foliage.
Luca Romanello +7 more
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Ciencias Administrativas Teoría y Praxis, 2018 The strategic linkages of the University for the socio-economic development through citizen participation and social innovation: a qualitative analysis of forums citizens.
Ruben Mólina-Sánchez +1 more
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Civil War and Political Participation: Evidence from Uganda [PDF]
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015 AbstractWe show that armed conflict in Uganda affects civic participation, measured by the frequency of political discussion and local meeting attendance. Relying on four rounds of nationally representative individual-level data on civic participation bracketing a large number of battle events, we find that civic participation increases in districts in
De Luca, Giacomo, Verpoorten, Marijke
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3D‐Printing Aided Rapid Prototyping of Pretensioned Tensegrity Structures for Robotic Applications
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Printing, injection molding, and assembly (PMA) is a method for rapid prototyping mesoscale, topologically complex, and tensioned tensegrity structures. In combination with PMA method, two mold design strategies: modular mold and compact channel layout, enable efficiency and scalability for tensegrity fabrication.
Yi Sun +3 more
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Expert Witness Participation in Civil and Criminal Proceedings [PDF]
Pediatrics, 2017 This Technical Report was reaffirmed June 2024. The interests of the public and both the medical and legal professions are best served when scientifically sound and unbiased expert witness testimony is readily available in civil and criminal proceedings.
Stephan R. Paul +10 more
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Advanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.This article explores what drives households to adopt solar PV and battery systems in South East Queensland. Using hybrid discrete choice experiments, it reveals distinct adopter profiles and highlights cost, system size, and energy independence as key motivators.
Mohammad Alipour +3 more
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State of Civil Society 2013: Creating an Enabling Environment [PDF]
, 2013 Welcome to the second edition of the State of Civil Society report produced by CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation. This report is not ours alone.
Cathy Ashton, Jay Naidoo
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.A large‐scale, high‐resolution antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance in Hong Kong community sewage combining short‐ and long‐read sequencing. The resistome profile is comprehensively characterized, and this upstream sampling strategy demonstrated superiority in reflecting the human gut resistome.
Jiahui Ding +11 more
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Women and Peace Theory and Civil Conflict Intensity
SAGE OpenDo improved women’s descriptive representation in legislative branches and women’s participation in civil society decrease the intensity of civil conflicts?
Byung-Deuk Woo, Hoshik Nam
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