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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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Ice Lithography: Recent Progress Opens a New Frontier of Opportunities

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review focuses on recent advancements in ice lithography, including breakthroughs in compatible precursors and substrates, processes and applications, hardware, and digital methods. Moreover, it offers a roadmap to uncover innovation opportunities for ice lithography in fields such as biological, nanoengineering and microsystems, biophysics and ...
Bingdong Chang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alberta’s Civil Society Pre- and Post-COVID-19: What’s government got to do with it?

open access: yesThe School of Public Policy Publications, 2020
The 2020 provincial budget prioritized civil society as a critical partner to improve wellbeing for Albertans. A Premier's Charities Council is being proposed "to advise government on how best to assist the efforts of civil society groups in helping to ...
Alina Turner, Camilo Camacho Escamilla
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Resisting the Global Crackdown on Civil Society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Civil society is increasingly coming under assault around the world, as authoritarian governments grow more bold and sophisticated in stifling independent groups that monitor elections, expose corruption, or otherwise give citizens a voice in how they ...
Daniel Calingaert
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Solar Heating Enhanced Selective Recovery of Metal Ions Through Flowing Electrodes Enabled by Hybrid Carbon Nanostructures

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A new electrochemical system based on a microporous hybrid of carbon nanoplatelets and nanotubes to selectively capture Ni2+ from wastewater is constructed. The system temperature rises rapidly when irradiated with sunlight, which enhances the Ni2+ removal rate by 250% and the selectivity by 53%, and the energy consumption is also reduced by 51 ...
Ziquan Wang   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Civil Society Report to the Commission on Social Determinants of Health

open access: yesSocial Medicine, 2007
A hundred and fifty years after his death we continue to be reminded of Virchow’s comment: “Do we not always find the diseases of the populace traceable to defects in society”?
Representatives of Civil Society
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One transition, many transitions? A corpus-based study of societal sustainability transition discourses in four civil society’s proposals

open access: yesSustainability Science, 2018
When the civil society makes ‘transition’ its label, it cannot be assumed that different civil society actors share compatible varieties of localist or radical transformationists discourses.
G. Feola, S. Jaworska
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A Biologically‐Architected Wear and Damage‐Resistant Nanoparticle Coating From the Radular Teeth of Cryptochiton stelleri

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The ultrahard teeth of mollusks that feed on rocky substrates contain a wear‐resistant coating on their surfaces consisting of densely packed mesocrystalline magnetic nanoparticles within an organic matrix. These coatings display significant hardness and toughness through their highly controlled mesocrystalline architectures.
Taifeng Wang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of parents, schools and society in developing civil society in Senior High School

open access: yesMasyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik, 2018
A qualitative research study using the phenomenology and cultural method was conducted in SMA Negeri 4, in Kupang. The data collection techniques were observation, interviews, and documentation.
Efraim Semuel Nalle   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

State of Civil Society Report 2016 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Each year the CIVICUS State of Civil Society Report seeks to celebrate the achievements of civil society, understand the conditions it works in and encourage action to address the challenges it encounters.

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