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National democratization theory and global governance: Civil society and the liberalization of the Asian Development Bank

open access: yes, 2011
Contributing to a growing literature on democracy beyond the nation-state, this article draws on aspects of national democratization theory in order to analyse empirical processes of democracy.
Uhlin, Anders,, Lund University.
core   +1 more source

Design‐for‐Benchmarking in Soft Robotics: Navigating Component‐System Dichotomy

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Soft robotics faces a profound evaluation challenge: the Component‐System Dichotomy, where isolated component tests fail to predict integrated performance. This article presents a systematic survey of critical reporting gaps across actuation, sensing, and control.
Matteo Lo Preti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hükümet Programlarında Demokratikleşme Politikalarının Değerlendirilmesi (1923-1980)

open access: yesSelçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Meslek Yüksekokulu Dergisi, 2018
Hükümet, devletin her alandaki siyasetini belirleyip uygulamakla görevli en üst yürütme organıdır.  Hükümet programı da yürütme organının uygulamayı amaçladığı temel politikaları içeren ve buna dayanarak Meclis’ten güvenoyu istediği bir belgedir ...
Fuat Uçar
doaj   +1 more source

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geography, public administration and governance

open access: yesBelgeo, 2000
Attention is directed to a number of principles that possibly can guide the on-going debates on governmental and administrative reform. The most important principles are the integrality of political decision-making at each self-governmental tier and ...
Petr Dostál, Pieter Saey
doaj   +1 more source

Lung maneuvers of large amplitudes for probing physiological alterations in mouse models of asthma

open access: yesAnimal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Lung maneuvers of small amplitudes, such as the ones performed in oscillometry, are the current gold standard to probe lung mechanics in animals, but they are insensitive to detect baseline physiological alterations in mouse models of asthma. Herein, lung maneuvers of different amplitudes were compared in two mouse models of asthma.
Magali Boucher   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resistenze agli impianti eolici nell’Appennino Settentrionale (1995 - 2012) (Resistances to wind farms in the Northern Apennines (1995 - 2012))

open access: yesPartecipazione e Conflitto, 2013
Outcomes of democratization paths have been addressed within literature on democratic consolidation as well as on revolution. These approaches have however never been linked with social movement theory that, I argue in this article, can provide new ...
Alessandro Mengozzi
doaj   +2 more sources

PbAT: A user‐friendly R/Shiny platform for data‐driven decision support in crop improvement

open access: yesApplications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Modern plant breeding requires robust analysis of complex, multi‐environment datasets to identify superior genotypes. Although R offers powerful statistical packages, their use often requires programming expertise. Existing graphical user interface (GUI)‐based tools are either limited in scope or not openly accessible, leaving breeders
Krishnan P. Abhijith   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Democratization : a critical introduction, 2nd ed., by Jean Grugel and Matthew Louis Bishop [book review]

open access: yes, 2014
Democratization: A Critical Introduction offers what the title promises: a critical – but not dogmatic – introductory text to democratization in theory and practice.
Khakee, Anna
core  

‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

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