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Debating Democracy: Concepts, Histories, and Controversies

Politics and Governance
Within academia as much as in political practice, democracy remains a contested concept. This issue focuses on the practices of the contestation of the concept of democracy—the debates, controversies, and contestations of democracy in theory, practice ...
Claudia Wiesner, Kari Palonen
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Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Adult Learning in STEM Disciplines

New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) are reshaping adult learning in STEM by providing adaptive, data‐driven instruction across classrooms, workplaces, and informal environments. In the context of ITS, this article compares generative AI, which creates personalized explanations and practice materials, with explainable AI, which focuses on ...
Jill Zarestky, Amanda R. Lager Gleason
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Appealing. The Biden Doctrine in the “Cold Democracy” Age

Diversitas Journal, 2022
Western democracies have lost their compass. They are cold and with no appeal; not looked upon as an efficient and effective model of governance. The Biden Doctrine might be defined as Joe Biden’s worldview divided between democracy and authoritarianism,
Amedeo Gasparini
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RNA Sequencing Resolves Cryptic Pathogenic Variants in Mitochondrial Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Mitochondrial diseases are the most common inherited metabolic disorders, characterized by pronounced clinical and genetic heterogeneity that complicates molecular diagnosis. Although DNA‐based sequencing approaches have become standard in genetic testing, up to half of patients remain without a definitive diagnosis.
Zhimei Liu, Xin Duan, Fatemeh Peymani, Jia Wang, Chengjia Bao, Chaolong Xu, Ying Zou, Zixuan Zhang, Yunxi Zhang, Tongyue Li, Martin Pavlov, Junling Wang, Minhan Song, Tianyu Song, Xiaodi Han, Mingxi Sun, Danmin Shen, Ruoyu Duan, Huafang Jiang, Manting Xu, Holger Prokisch, Fang Fang   +21 more
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Liberal Democracy

, 2020
This open access book aims to show which factors have been decisive in the rise of successful countries. Never before have so many people been so well off. However, prosperity is not a law of nature; it has to be worked for. A liberal economy stands at the forefront of this success – not as a political system, but as a set of economic rules promoting ...
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Comprehensive Characterization of 98 Chinese Cases of Genetic Creutzfeldt‐Jakob Disease With T188K Mutation

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To characterize the demographic, clinical, and laboratory features of the Chinese patients of genetic Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease with T188K variant (T188K‐gCJD), the most common subtype of genetic prion diseases (gPrDs) in China. Methods In this nationwide retrospective study, data from 98 genetically confirmed T188K‐gCJD patients ...
Chun‐Jie Li, Dong‐Lin Liang, Li‐Ping Gao, Wei‐Wei Zhang, Wei Zhou, A. Ruhan, Bing Xu, Run‐Dong Cao, Kang Xiao, Cao Chen, Qi Shi, Xiao‐Ping Dong   +11 more
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In Situ Micromechanical Study of Bimodal γ′–γ″ Precipitate Assemblies in Ni–Cr–Al–Nb Superalloy

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A Ni–Cr–Al–Nb superalloy with a bimodal γ′–γ″ precipitate distribution is developed. Composite precipitate assemblies form through heterogeneous nucleation, effectively impeding dislocation motion. Micropillar compression reveals high strength at room and elevated temperatures, governed by precipitate shearing, with coupled faulting mechanisms ...
Ujjval Bansal, Tae‐Hyeok Kang, Pyuck‐Pa Choi, Subin Lee, Christoph Kirchlechner   +4 more
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From Shear to Sound: Mechanics–Acoustics Mapping of TPMS Lattices

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) lattices are mapped across mechanical and acoustic performance, revealing that descriptors validated in compression fail under shear. First‐time comparison with trusses included. A transition from porous to resonance‐driven absorption emerges at 25% density.
Lucía Doyle, María Ángeles Navacerrada, Johan Christensen, Carlos González   +3 more
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The Fragility of Liberal Democracy Faced with Fascism and Climate Politics

Athena
This article engages with the particular fragility of liberal democracy in current times. The particularity at stake here concerns the two major challenges that liberal democracy faces today, notably the rising allure of fascism (mostly AF hereafter) and
Johan Van der Walt
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Laser‐Induced Graphene from Waste Almond Shells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Almond shells, an abundant agricultural by‐product, are repurposed to create a fully bioderived almond shell/chitosan composite (ASC) degradable in soil. ASC is converted into laser‐induced graphene (LIG) by laser scribing and proposed as a substrate for transient electronics.
Yulia Steksova, Anna Chiara Bressi, Marina Galliani, Attilio Marino, Gianni Ciofani, Eduardo Machado‐Charry, Hilda Gomez Bernal, Alessandra Francini, Luca Sebastiani, Francesco Greco   +9 more
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