The Concept of Freedom in Post-Communism: a Proposal for Reconsidering Eastern European Thinking in Constructing Social Research in Romania [PDF]
Revista Română de Sociologie, 2010 This article analyzes the concept of freedom and its ontology in post-communist Romania and questions the opportunity of using, without filtering through Eastern European philosophy, the major Western philosophical ideas on freedom. While there is a need
FLORIN GRANCEA
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Single‐ and Dual‐Atom Configurations in Atomically Dispersed Catalysts for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Single‐atom and dual‐atom‐based atomically dispersed catalysts (ADCs) effectively address the shuttle effect and sluggish redox kinetics in Li–S batteries. With nearly 100% atomic utilization and tunable coordination environments, ADCs enhance LiPSs adsorption, lower conversion barriers, and accelerate sulfur redox reactions.
Haoyang Xu +4 more
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Algorithmic Design of Disordered Networks With Arbitrary Coordination: Application to Biophotonics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Predictive Design of Disordered Networks: Disordered network‐like morphologies are abundant in nature, from cytoskeletal networks to bone structures and chalcogenide glasses. These structures are naturally hard to characterize. A new algorithmic tool extends the established Wooten–Weaire–Winer (WWW) algorithm to valencies above 4.
Florin Hemmann +3 more
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Forced to Freedom? Empirical Relations between Aid and Economic Freedom [PDF]
The paper explores the relationships between economic freedom on the one side and development aid and IMF credit as approximation for conditional aid on the other side.
Franz Kronthaler, Tobias Knedlik
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Aptamer‐Based Delivery Systems for VEGF and NGF Modulation in Ocular Therapies
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Aptamer‐based delivery systems targeting NGF and VEGF hold significant potential for precise and sustained treatment of complex diseases affecting both the anterior and posterior segments of the eye. This review critically summarizes current strategies for NGF and VEGF delivery as well as VEGF sequestration, providing a clinical perspective on how ...
Nadine Best +5 more
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DO ‘LABOUR’ COUNCILS LOWER ECONOMIC FREEDOM?
Buletin Ekonomi Moneter dan Perbankan, 2019 Using a panel of the UK counties, spanning the period 2010-2016, this study explores whether having a Labour or Conservative council affects a county’s economic freedom.
Nicholas Apergis
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Institutional determinants of investment in transition economies [PDF]
, 2009 Investment has been found to be a significant determinant of growth. This paper analyses the effects of institutions and transition progress on investment rates of transition economies since the collapse of the Socialist Bloc. Political institution is
Dang, V
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Opportunities of Semiconducting Oxide Nanostructures as Advanced Luminescent Materials in Photonics
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.The review discusses the challenges of wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconducting oxides as a suitable material platform for photonics. They offer great versatility in terms of tuning microstructure, native defects, doping, anisotropy, and micro‐ and nano‐structuring. The review focuses on their light emission, light‐confinement in optical cavities, and
Ana Cremades +7 more
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Investigating the interaction effect of democracy and economic freedom on corruption: a cross-country quantile regression analysis [PDF]
, 2012 This paper explores the interaction effects of economic freedom and democracy in controlling corruption for 100 countries by using quantile regression technique.
Saha, Shrabani, Su, Jen-Je
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Flexoelectrically Induced Polar Topology in Twisted SrTiO3 Membranes
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Twisted SrTiO3 bilayers host polar vortices of flexoelectric origin, revealed through combined experiment and theory. By reconstructing polarization from the toroidal moment of strain gradients, the work establishes a 3D chiral state with broken inversion and mirror symmetries.
Isabel Tenreiro +13 more
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