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The Erosion of Rights: Declining Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Bush Administration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The erosion of civil rights across our nation over the past six years is the result of willful neglect and calculated design. The Bush administration continues to use the courts and the judicial appointment process to narrow civil rights protections and ...
Dianne M. Piche, William L. Taylor
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New‐Era Polymer Thermoelectrics: Material Innovations, Doping Frontiers, Decoupling Strategies, and Unconventional Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
The field of polymer thermoelectrics is entering a new era, featuring breakthroughs in addressing the conventional performance disparity between p‐type and n‐type polymers, pioneering doping frontiers, and sophisticated decoupling strategies. This review explores innovations in molecular design and superior stabilities, bridging the gap from ...
Suhao Wang
wiley   +1 more source

National Minorities, Nationalizing States, and External National Homelands in the New Europe. Notes toward a Relational Analysis. Institute of Advanced Studies Political Science Series, 11 December 1993 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Nationalism remains central to politics in and among the new nation-states. Far from »solving« the region's national question, the most recent reconfiguration of political space – the replacement of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia by ...
Brubaker, Rogers
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Neuromorphic Electronics for Intelligence Everywhere: Emerging Devices, Flexible Platforms, and Scalable System Architectures

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
The perspective presents an integrated view of neuromorphic technologies, from device physics to real‐time applicability, while highlighting the necessity of full‐stack co‐optimization. By outlining practical hardware‐level strategies to exploit device behavior and mitigate non‐idealities, it shows pathways for building efficient, scalable, and ...
Kapil Bhardwaj   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Voting Rights Act and the New and Improved Intent Test: Old Wine in New Bottles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Since the Supreme Court injected the issue of intent into the voting rights arena in Mobile v. Bolden,1 there has been a long and persistent struggle to reverse that decision.
McLaughlin, Randolph M.
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High‐Performance Transparent, Deformable, and Recoverable Biomimetic Stevia–PVA Hydrogel Triboelectric Nanogenerator with Machine Learning‐Assisted Motion Recognition

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
A transparent, deformable stevia–PVA hydrogel triboelectric nanogenerator delivers significantly enhanced mechanical strength and electrical output through biomimetic hydrogen‐bonded networks. Coupled with machine learning–assisted signal recognition, the self‐powered hydrogel enables accurate human‐motion sensing for intelligent wearable and IoT ...
Thien Trung Luu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Language-based welfare services in times of structural change: An examination of Finland’s social and healthcare reform (2023)

open access: yesRevista de Llengua i Dret - Journal of Language and Law
This study examines the impact of Finland’s social and healthcare reform on language-based welfare services for the Swedish-speaking population of Finland.
Staffan Himmelroos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smart and Sustainable Sizing: Investigating the Sensing Behavior of Glass Fabrics Coated With Waterborne Polyurethane/Graphene Dispersions

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Waterborne polyurethane/graphene formulations are developed as piezoresistive coatings on glass fabric to enable flexible strain sensing. The graphene‐enabled conductive network provides a stable electromechanical response under cyclic compression. The coating demonstrates reliable pressure‐dependent resistance changes, highlighting its potential for ...
Vishnu Vijayan Pillai   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Segregating California's Future: Inequality and Its Alternative, 60 Years after Brown v. Board of Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
California has had serious issues of separation and discrimination in its schools since it became a state. It was little affected by the Brown decision, which was directed primarily at the 17 states that had laws mandating the segregation of African ...
Gary Orfield, Jongyeon Ee
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