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Cross-Cutting Literature Review on the Drivers of Local Council Accountability and Performance [PDF]
There is now a considerable body of literature on decentralization in diverse national contexts. Ascertaining factors that drive local accountability and performance have been the key concerns of these studies.
Lankina, Tomila
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Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Functional Materials: Progress and Emerging Frontiers
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Artificial intelligence is transforming the discovery of functional materials by linking synthesis, characterization, simulation, and design in unified workflows. Advances in machine learning, autonomous experimentation, and foundation models are accelerating innovation across energy, electronics, and biomedicine, while revealing new frontiers for ...
Cristiano Malica +38 more
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The Collective Power of Bacteria as a Blueprint for Emergent Intelligence
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Small cells, powerful collectives. Bacteria demonstrate how sophisticated behaviors can emerge from many simple individuals working together. We explore the remarkable world of bacterial communities and the mechanisms that underpin their complex emergent behaviors, enabling impressive adaptability, robustness, and responsiveness to changing ...
Johanna A. Blee +2 more
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Decentralization and the Increased Autonomy in Local Governments
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014 AbstractIn the context of processes of change that is included the Albanian state, the local governments plays an important role. Membership in various international bodies has given a special priority to this government. In the centre of this paper is the analysis of fiscal decentralization of local government, specifically addressing the priorities ...
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Miniaturized Multifunctional Valves for Intelligent Pneumatic Systems in Soft Robotics
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Miniaturized multifunctional pneumatic valves in normally closed (NC) and normally open (NO) configurations enable reconfigurable and programmable fluidic logic—including AND, OR, NAND, and NOR gates—with/without physical replumbing. These valves integrate sensing, logic, and actuation within a unified architecture, demonstrated through an electronics ...
J. Xu +4 more
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On the measurement and impact of fiscal decentralization [PDF]
The typical post-Bretton Woods era development approach that emphasized central government-led development efforts has changed dramatically, and local governments have clearly emerged as players in development policy. The thinking about what is important
Ebel, Robert D., Yilmaz, Serdar
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Agribusiness: From Automation to Augmentation in a Global Context
Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Alexis H. Villacis
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Graph Neural Network‐Based Reinforcement Learning for Decentralized Multi‐Robot Manipulation
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Robot arms lifting a large object face a trade‐off: centralized controllers explode in parameters, while decentralized ones cannot coordinate. A GNN resolves this—each arm runs its own network but acts on the full team state, achieving centralized‐level coordination with decentralized execution. Trained across team sizes, a single policy scales to four‐
Tong Chen +3 more
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Good Governance in Local States: Decentralization Approach
دولتپژوهی, 2019 The term good governance is used today on a wide scale from a local to an international level. In the meantime, governance in the form of local government seems to be more commensurate with good governance. This research seeks to answer the questions of what is the relationship between local government and good governance and what are the unique ...
Seyed Hadi Zarghani, Ebrahim Ahmadi
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On the Theory and Practise of Fiscal Decentralization [PDF]
The traditional theory of public finance has made a strong case for a major role for fiscal decentralization. This case is based on an improved allocation of resources in the public sector. And it has four basic elements.
Wallace E. Oates
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