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PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN AUTOCRACIES: Conflicting Logics, Unintended Consequences and Contentious Participation in Angola's Orçamento Participativo

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Participatory institutions are no longer confined to liberal democracies as autocrats around the world experiment with ‘authoritarian participation’. This also applies to the most successful democratic innovation of recent decades: participatory budgeting (PB).
DANIEL TJARKS
wiley   +1 more source

Use of essential oils for the topic treatment of Fusarium solani infection in Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta)

open access: yes
reservedFusarium solani infection can cause infections in human and animals, including aquatic species. It is an emerging pathogen in sea turtles. Several studies have demonstrated the resistance of F.
CALVARUSO, IRENE
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Global Union Federations and Human Rights Due Diligence: Strategic Repertoires in a Shifting Legal Terrain

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the strategic engagement of global union federations (GUFs) with emerging human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislation as a mechanism of transnational labour governance. Drawing on a multimethod qualitative design—including legal and document analysis and interviews with union officials—the study identifies six ...
Ingrid Landau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Essential Oils from Medicinal Plants: A Review of Skin Disease Treatments

open access: yes, 2018
For this chapter, a literature search of PubMed®/ScienceDirect was performed on January 20th, 2017 using the following search terms: essential oils AND skin conditions AND treatment.
Vizcaino, Maria Jose   +3 more
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Palestine, Public Sentiment and the Limits of Omani Foreign Policy Discourse

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how expressions of solidarity with Palestine in Oman reveal transformations in state–society relations during the Gaza war of 2023–2025, a period of leadership transition and regional rupture. Drawing on elite statements, opinion columns and semi‐structured interviews, it combines framing analysis with thematic analysis ...
Sumaiya Al‐Wahaibi
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient Essential Oils: Exploring the Effects of Age on Bioactivity

open access: yes, 2012
It seems reasonable to expect that the molecular composition and bioactivity of essential oils will undergo changes after protracted storage times, reflecting, among other things, the effects of differential evaporation, photo-oxidisation or temperature.
Sadgrove, Nicholas   +2 more
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Captured participatory institutions: Theory and evidence from Venezuela's Consejos Comunales

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Can participatory institutions (PIs) facilitate development when captured by the government? We propose an original theoretical framework to investigate how changing incumbent priorities can shape the developmental and political effects of captured PIs.
Jared Abbott, Jose Morales‐Arilla
wiley   +1 more source

Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
wiley   +1 more source

Biotransformation of the Essential oil of Calamintha nepeta var. glandulosa by Aspergilus niger

open access: yes, 2016
60th TEAC (Symposium on the Chemistry of Terpenes, Essential oils and Aromatics), October, 2016, 1A III-3, PP90 ...
Bukvicki, D.   +3 more
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