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[Loreto Church in Prague, Czechia]

open access: yes, 1940
Photograph of a sandstone colored church hat has been identified as Loreto church in Prague, Czechia. The religious site features clay tiled shingles, human sculptures, and golden crosses.
Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
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Thermal Degradation Kinetics and Flame‐Retardant Synergy in Zinc Borate/Red Phosphorus‐Filled Thermoplastic Polyurethane Composites

open access: yesJournal of Vinyl and Additive Technology, EarlyView.
The synergistic interaction between red phosphorus (RP) and zinc borate (ZnB) enhances the thermal stability and flame retardancy of TPU by forming a dense, stable protective char layer. Non‐isothermal kinetic analysis confirms a complex degradation mechanism governed by conversion‐dependent activation energy.
Volkan Murat Yılmaz
wiley   +1 more source

Food Hub or Not Yet? Exploring the Food Hub Milieu in Czechia

open access: yesEuropean Countryside
In global research, food hubs are evaluated as a suitable tool for the development of alternative food networks and the transformation of the agri-food system towards sustainability.
Smutná Zdeňka, Hruška Vladan
doaj   +1 more source

Deciphering unusually large modulations in two related organic hydroxy channel structures

open access: yesActa Crystallographica Section B, EarlyView.
Two related organic hydroxy‐channel compounds are shown to have unusually large structural modulations.The incommensurately modulated structures of two related organic hydroxy‐channel compounds [(R)‐1‐(1,3‐dihydroxypropan‐2‐yl)‐3‐(octan‐2‐yl)urea, 1; 1‐(1,3‐dihydroxypropan‐2‐yl)‐3‐octylurea, 2] have been determined and compared to the structure of a ...
Arie van der Lee   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

School in the Rural Municipality as an Issue of Politics: Czech Mayors' Attitudes towards the Role and Support of the Local Elementary School

open access: yesEuropean Countryside
Public elementary schools in rural municipalities represent key institutional amenities for the communities they serve, and their administrations are part of the broader municipal political structure.
Kučerová Silvie R.   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predator‐guild‐specific parental responses mitigate higher predation risk on ground nests close to forest patches in a mosaic landscape

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Predation increases close to habitat edges, but how animals cope with local predation variations remained poorly studied. In a mosaic landscape, lapwings were compensating for increased nest predation close to forests. They acted more aggressively towards an avian predator when nesting close to trees, but comparatively tamer against a mammal.
Guillaume Dillenseger   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crisis micro‐learning: A framework for understanding the micro‐flow of policy learning and Australia's COVID‐19 response

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract COVID‐19 has intensified interest in crisis policy learning, yet the micro‐level interactions among political, bureaucratic, and expert actors remain underexplored. We conceptualise an ideal‐type framework for the micro‐flow of crisis learning, an ordinarily epistemic and context‐specific process of individual‐level interactions, where lessons
Neil Mortimer, Nicholas Bromfield
wiley   +1 more source

Judicial Self-Government in Czechia: Europe’s Black Sheep? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper maps judicial self-government in Czechia and argues that although Czechia is sometimes perceived as a black sheep of Europe for not introducing any form of judicial council into its judicial system, there is in fact a substantial amount of ...
Urbániková Marína   +2 more
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Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 199-205, January/March 2025.
Abstract English local government faces a perilous position owing to insufficient funding, structural issues and capacity challenges. Fourteen years of austerity have significantly reduced council budgets, while increased demand for services—particularly adult social care—has strained resources.
David Jeffery
wiley   +1 more source

The Erosion of Constitutionalism via Constitutional Entrepreneurship: Lessons from Slovakia

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2023 Slovak general election resulted in an illiberal coalition keen to transform the political regime following its Hungarian neighbour's post‐2010 example. Using the Slovak case, this article shows the key role of political party leaders’ constitutional entrepreneurship in the erosion of constitutionalism. Constitutional entrepreneurship
Darina Malová, Max Steuer
wiley   +1 more source

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