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Liberal Democracy From Oxymoron to Celebrated Concept: British and French Discourses of 1968–2001

open access: yesPolitics and Governance
In recent decades, the term “liberal democracy” has become increasingly prevalent in political and academic discourse. However, this widespread usage obscures the historical tension between democracy—understood as the exercise of popular sovereignty—and ...
Hugo Bonin
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A Novel Approach to Estimate the Transition Temperature via Dynamic Nanoindentation

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A new dynamic nanoindentation‐based method was developed that uses the stiffness ratio as an indicator of the elastic–plastic deformation contributions at different temperatures. The approach successfully identified transition temperatures in ferritic steel and distinguished them from continuously ductile austenitic steel.
Stefan Zeiler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Electrodeposition in Structural Lattices of Variable Architectures

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Electrodeposition enables geometry‐sensitive, autonomous void filling while simultaneously tuning chemical and mechanical properties. The development of approaches that can autonomously fill and heal material voids and yield composites with tailorable properties is increasingly relevant in engineering.
Yeong‐Man Kwon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Democracy and Liberal Cosmopolitanism: Who is the Sovereign?

open access: yesPolicy Perspectives
This paper analyzes the popular concept of democracy that is ‘of the people, for the people, by the people’. It explores the interplay between democracy and liberal cosmopolitanism.
Aneela Shahzad
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Religious Values in Liberal Democracy

open access: yesReligions, 2020
Religious values neither wholly threaten nor wholly reinforce the stability of liberal democracy. This depends upon how they may be interpreted and applied.
Emily R. Gill
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Democracy from Islamic law perspective [PDF]

open access: yesKom: Časopis za Religijske Nauke, 2016
It is frequently argued that because many Muslim states are monarchies or dictatorships or because of certain events that have taken place within their borders, Islamic law is not compatible with democracy and democracy is even neglected in the ...
Mubarak Abdulkadir
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Laser‐Induced Graphene from Waste Almond Shells

open access: yesAdvanced 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   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Democracia e direitos sociais: histórico e implicações para as políticas educacionais brasileiras

open access: yesRevista Katálysis, 2019
This article discusses democracy within the scope of the capitalist society, using theoretical and documentary research. The study sought to build concepts around the limits of substantive, socialist, and representative liberal democracy.
Doracy Dias Aguiar de Carvalho   +1 more
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Implantable Ionic Memristors Based on Natural Polymer Heterojunctions

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We report an implantable natural polymer‐based ionic memristor composed of hyaluronic acid, chitosan, and PDMS. The device achieved 98.94% accuracy in MNIST classification while reducing training time by 36.8% compared with a conventional artificial neural network (ANN).
Dong‐yup Lee   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

How to think about liberal and democratic principles: three models of illiberal democracy

open access: yesFilosofický časopis
This article aims to examine how to think about illiberal democracy which is a threat democracy is currently facing. In some detail, three models of democracy are analysed, which differ in how they understand the relationship between liberal and ...
Znoj, Milan
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