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Civil Society in Germany: Its Conceptualization and Organization

open access: yesSosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi, 2023
Germany has been an important country in the emergence and development of social policy practices and the discipline of social policy science and as such has a characteristic position as a welfare state.
Murat Kalkan
doaj   +1 more source

Transformational dynamism of civil society organizations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Open innovation, F(L)OSS, sharing economy, co-creation, social entrepreneurship, solidarity economy, platform cooperativism, peer production… These innovative patterns of broadening cooperation among civil society, market and public sector players can ...
Veress, József
core   +2 more sources

AI in chemical engineering: From promise to practice

open access: yesAIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) in chemical engineering has moved from promise to practice: physics‐aware (gray‐box) models are gaining traction, reinforcement learning complements model predictive control (MPC), and generative AI powers documentation, digitization, and safety workflows.
Jia Wei Chew   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship between Local and International Organizations and Community Development

open access: yesJournal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2010
Although there are numerous definitions and theories of the concept of development, many developing countries continue to suffer from problems associated with lack of development and environmental degradation. It seems that states in developing countries
Manal Farouk Sayed Ali
doaj   +1 more source

Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects

open access: yesAdvanced 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
wiley   +1 more source

Civil Society, De-democratization and Political Polarization: The Hungarian, Polish, and Israeli Cases

open access: yesPartecipazione e Conflitto
This study aims to identify how civil society reacts to the de-democratizing attempts and the political polarization that usually accompanies this process. Civil society actors working under populist rule usually have to overcome two main challenges: the
Márton Gerő
doaj   +1 more source

Global civil society: between nation states and transnational corporations

open access: yesAspekti Publìčnogo Upravlìnnâ, 2017
Global civil society is the subject of the formation of a new world order and the modern humanitarian outlook, which is based on the primacy of justice and human rights.
S. A. Kvitka
doaj   +1 more source

Racism and racial disparities in firearm violence: A scoping review

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Firearm violence (i.e., interpersonal, police firearm violence) disproportionately affects racially minoritized communities. Researchers recently shifted their focus from race to racism to better understand the factors that contribute to racial disparities in firearm violence.
Daniel B. Lee   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Partnering with Civil Society Organizations

open access: yesCIRIEC Working papers, 2019
The purpose of this article is to make a distinctive contribution to the emergence of a new form of partnership between municipalities and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). These collaborations are articulated at the border between the public and the society as well as between the formal and the informal economy.
Viganò, Federica, Salustri, Andrea
openaire   +1 more source

Philanthropy and the Third Sector in Mexico: The Enabling Environment and Its Limitations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Why is Mexico's third sector underdeveloped? Despite the importance of this question, there is no persuasive answer. The usual mono-causal explanations –such as historical trajectory or lack of civic culture– are inadequate.
Michael D. Layton
core   +1 more source

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