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Review of Thermally Activated Twisted Coiled Polymer Actuators: A Materials Science Perspective

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Thermally activated twisted and coiled polymer actuators (TCPAs) combine lightweight design, large deformation, and scalable fabrication for soft robotic and wearable applications. This review connects polymer structure, processing history, helix geometry, and thermomechanical characterization to actuator performance, highlighting current challenges in
Nadja Schenk, Lukas Benecke, Chokri Cherif, Johannes Mersch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does fiscal autonomy always fuel financial health in local governments? A cross-country analysis [PDF]

Purpose – Increased fiscal autonomy is often identified in studies as leading to improved financial health in local governments, while research finds those depending heavily on funding from other levels of government suffer a decline in financial health.
Padovani, Emanuele, Emanuele Padovani, Iacuzzi, Silvia, Paola Canestrini, Silvia Iacuzzi, Canestrini, Paola   +5 more
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Exploring the impact of financial autonomy on educational quality in higher education institutions

Social Sciences and Humanities Open
The growing need to enhance the efficiency of higher education amidst limited public resources makes financial autonomy a crucial factor in improving educational quality and fostering innovation, infrastructure modernization, and resource management ...
Mirlan Chynybaev, Burul Tashtobaeva, Rahat Bekboeva   +2 more
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EMENDAS CONSTITUCIONAIS E DESCENTRALIZAÇÃO FISCAL: EVOLUÇÃO E INTERFERÊNCIAS NA AUTONOMIA FINANCEIRA DOS MUNICÍPIOS

Desenvolvimento em Questão, 2018
After the Federal Constitution of 1988, Brazilian cities were raised to the position of federal entities with legislative, political, administrative and financial autonomy.
Mauro Joaquim Júnior Pacheco, Luiz Antônio Abrantes, Robson Zuccolotto, Roberto de Almeida Luquini   +3 more
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Electrolyte‐Induced Cu+ Preservation Results in a Selectivity Switch of Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction at a Copper‐Organic Framework as Electrocatalyst

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The active role of KCl as a neutral electrolyte enables switching the selectivity on a Cu organic framework from C1 to C2+ products during electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. ABSTRACT We introduce a copper‐nicotinate (Cu‐NA) framework as a halogenide‐stabilized Cu+/Cu0 pre‐catalyst for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction with high C2+ selectivity in a “neutral”
Anirudha Shekhawat, Muhammad Adib Abdillah Mahbub, Lejing Li, Bashir Eid, Ridha Zerdoumi, Sabine Seisel, Carla Santana Santos, Nini Zhang, Thomas Quast, Xin Wang, Wolfgang Schuhmann, Debanjan Das   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Give me liberty or give me money: the fiscal decentralization and autonomy of regional governance in Slovakia

European Journal of Government and Economics, 2019
The aim of this study is to focus on fiscal decentralization and regional financial autonomy in Slovakia. The public administration reform and fiscal decentralization process in Slovakia ought to increase the autonomy of the multi-level governance and to
Jaroslav Mihálik, Peter Horváth, Martin Švikruha   +2 more
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PRINCIPAL’S ATTITUDE TO THE EXPANSION OF THE AUTONOMY OF THE INSTITUTION OF GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION: THE RESULTS OF ANALYTICAL RESEARCH

Неперервна професійна освіта: теорія та практика, 2021
The authors of the article analyze the results of a survey of school principals conducted in December 2020 in Kyiv. The Law of Ukraine «On Education» provides for granting educational institutions the right to expand the scope of autonomy, namely ...
Kostiantyn Lynov , Iryna Lynova
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RBI Autonomy and the Indian Financial Sector [PDF]

Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 1993
In the context of the worldwide trend towards greater independence for the central banks and the recent public pronouncements by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), there is now a strong possibility of the RBI being given more autonomy. This is likely to be accompanied by several changes in the operations of the RBI including a pruning of ...
Barua, Samir K., Varma, Jayanth R.
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Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong, You Zhou, Qingxiu Li, Wenyu Zhao, Sunyingyue Geng, Hangfei Li, Yan‐Bing Leng, Shirui Zhu, Guanglong Ding, Yongbiao Zhai, Ziyu Lv, Ye Zhou, Su‐Ting Han   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a regulatory system for the financial mechanism of an autonomous educational institution

RUDN Journal of Economics, 2020
A feature of financing higher education institutions is the application of a standard scheme: financing from a general fund, the expense of a special fund, sponsorship, which does not fully meet the needs of the educational and innovative model of a ...
Aleksandr D. Kvashin, Olga V. Ribakova
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