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Strengthening urban resilience in China through underground infrastructures management: Addressing global climate challenges with technological solutions

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This paper explores how climate‐resilient technologies, such as smart grids, digital twins, and self‐healing materials, can enhance urban resilience. It highlights the urgent need for proactive planning, public‐private collaboration, and data‐driven innovation to future‐proof underground infrastructure amid accelerating climate and urban pressures ...
Kai Chen Goh   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Romania’s Membership of International Financial Institutions – a Necessary Change [PDF]

open access: yesRomanian Economic Journal, 2018
After a 17-year transformation process from a centralized economy to a functional market economy, Romania joined the European Union on January 1, 2007. Today, 11 years after the EU accession, Romania is still looking forward to achieve many of the real ...
Doltu Claudiu
doaj  

Membrane Engineering for Battery Systems: Bridging Design Principles and Frontier Applications

open access: yesENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
The review emphasizes membrane separators' role in battery performance and safety, covering redox flow, lithium‐ion, and solid‐state batteries. It reviews advances in membrane materials (e.g., polymer electrolytes, hybrid composites) and ion transport mechanisms, while addressing challenges like dendrite growth and crossover losses.
Xiaoqun Zhou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Regionalism in World Politics. Example of the United States of America in Conditions of Western Hemisphere

open access: yesCzech Journal of International Relations, 2004
This article deals with regional integration agreements as one of the key tendencies of the international economic relations. Regionalism could be a way of the world trade liberalisation opening its multilateral form alternative. The U.S.
Pavel Neumann
doaj  

Globalizing Savigny: The State in Savigny’s Private International Law, and the Challenge of Europeanization and Globalization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
How can conflict of laws respond to the challenges from globalization? Some argue that state-based approaches like governmental interest analysis are inadequate, and advocate a return to the approach taken by the German scholar Savigny in the 19th ...
Michaels, Ralf
core   +1 more source

The critical role of innovation for the well-being of our society: a multilateral approach matters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The article analyzes the importance of innovation in promoting social well-being and its possible role in driving prosperity and accelerating regional development. It elaborates on the paramount role of small and mediium sized enterprises in generating
Billi, Andrea, PFEIFFER, CHRISTIN
core   +1 more source

Solar Energy in 2025: Global Deployment, Cost Trends, and the Role of Energy Storage in Enabling a Resilient Smart Energy Infrastructure

open access: yesENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
This paper explores global solar PV deployment, cost trends, and grid integration challenges in 2025. It examines the role of energy storage in firming solar output and supporting electric vehicle (EV) growth, alongside policy shifts, investment flows, and technological innovations.
Ehsan Rezaee, S. Ravi P. Silva
wiley   +1 more source

Multilateral Adjustment and Exchange Rate Dynamics: The Case of Three Commodity Currencies [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we empirically investigate whether multilateral adjustment to large U.S. external imbalances can help explain movements in the bilateral exchange rates of three commodity currencies -- the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand (ACNZ ...
Ali Dib   +3 more
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Digital Rights Activism in Multilevel Governance

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multilevel governance (MLG) without a clear hierarchical structure can create power imbalances among various actors, particularly in settings with overlapping jurisdictions and policy areas. This dynamic is especially pronounced in Internet governance, which faces a complex interplay of domestic laws, state interdependence, and heightened ...
Alison Harcourt
wiley   +1 more source

Trade Agreements [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade ...
Carsten Kowalczyk, Raymond Riezman
core  

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