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Challenges and enablers in fluidization technology

open access: yesAIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Gas–solid fluidized beds provide excellent heat and mass transfer for high‐throughput operations from coating to catalytic conversion and underpin emerging low‐carbon technologies. Yet industrial reliability, scale‐up, and control lag scientific understanding, particularly as finer, stickier, and more variable feedstocks increasingly challenge
J. Ruud van Ommen, Jia Wei Chew
wiley   +1 more source

Sharing Global Governance: The Role of Civil Society Organizations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This report explores the multiple roles and potential of CSOs in international policymaking and examines the strengths and weaknesses of CSOs and state-based organizations in global governance.
Peter Walkenhorst, Tom Fries
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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

Transformation of the information sphere of civil society

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2019
The author considers new phenomena in the information sphere of civil society, their influence on the nature and forms of its development, emphasizing that the development of the Russian civil society follows the general formation of the global civil ...
V K Levashov
doaj   +1 more source

The Global Institutionalization of Multicultural Education as an Academic Discourse

open access: yesSocieties, 2023
Multicultural education has been widely recognized as an educational approach to deal with social and cultural diversity towards a more inclusive and just society.
Saerom Lee   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Robust, Recognizable and Legitimate: Strengthening India's Appliance Efficiency Standards and Labels Through Greater Civil Society Involvement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Residential use accounts for 14 percent of global energy consumption. Appliance standards alone could achieve 17 percent energy reductions in the residential sector.
Bharath Jairaj   +2 more
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The Open‐Source Paradox: Africa's Digital Sovereignty and the Structural Limits of Artificial Intelligence Autonomy

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Open‐source artificial intelligence is widely promoted as a democratising pathway to digital sovereignty for African states, offering access to frontier architectures without prohibitive capital investment. This paper investigates whether open‐source AI represents a credible route to autonomy or generates a new form of structural dependency ...
Ololade A. Shonubi
wiley   +1 more source

Civis mundi sum: global civil society

open access: yesRecerca: Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi, 2012
The need for global civil society stems from democratic deficits at the global level, but it is an open question how effective global networks of civil society can be in creating meaningful links of interdependence between societies, global markets and ...
Jody Jensen
doaj  

Why the frustration?

open access: yesPolitikon, 2014
Civil society organizations play an increasingly important role in global politics. However, during the last years, civil society has become frustrated from the negotiations in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Sebastian Levi
doaj   +1 more source

Civil Society and International Organizations: A Liberal Framework for Global Governance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
An earlier draft of this Article was presented at a faculty workshop at the University of Illinois College of Law. (Author\u27s Manuscript, March 2005) This analysis of how civil society can contribute to a better system of global governance draws on the
Bignami, Francesca E.
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