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The Rise and Fall of Energy Democracy: 5 Cases of Collaborative Governance in Energy Systems. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Manage, 2023
Berthod O   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

No differences in efficiency between public and private utilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The increase in municipal economic activity in the utilities sector frequently comes under scrutiny. It is presumed that public utilities have less incentive to provide efficient service than private companies.
Cullmann, Astrid   +3 more
core  

Positively Charged Polymer‐Brush MOFs for Large‐Area, Pressure‐Resistant Gas Separation Membranes

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
A universal POPA strategy enables positively charged polymer‐brush MOFs with self‐adaptive interfacial interlocking to resist aggregation under fast processing. This design ensures seamless dispersion within large‐area selective layers, achieving 1 m‐wide roll‐to‐roll fabrication of pressure‐resistant MMCMs with tunable CO2 separation performance ...
Yi Yang   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

La municipalización de la enseñanza de la clínica Teaching municipalization of Clinics

open access: yesRevista Cubana de Medicina, 2009
Se exponen criterios de los autores sobre los cambios que impone la municipalización de la enseñanza a la asignatura Propedéutica Clínica. Cambios en el contenido dados por una morbilidad desplazada al período preclínico y de riesgo de los síndromes, por
Miguel Ángel Blanco Aspiazú   +4 more
doaj  

The cyclical trend of local public service governance: evidence from urban water management in Spain [PDF]

open access: yes
The level of public and private involvement in economic activity in societies has changed over time. One may talk about the existence of a cyclical trend in which the most important periods of public governance are replaced by periods in which private ...
Alberto Ruiz Villaverde   +2 more
core  

Leaftronics: Bio‐Fractal Scaffolds From Leaf Venation for Low‐Waste Electronics

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
“Leaftronics” transforms naturally evolved leaf venation into quasi‐fractal scaffolds for sustainable electronics. Polymer‐infiltrated leaf skeletons can be used to fabricate ultra‐smooth, reflow‐ and thin‐film‐compatible decomposable substrates, while making the same lignocellulose networks conducting results in flexible transparent electrodes.
Rakesh Rajendran Nair   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Too many municipalities? [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Economia, 2011
Does democracy lead to the creation of too many municipalities? We analyze this issue within the context of the Alesina e Spolaore (1997) model where the quality of municipal services deteriorates with the distance from the center of a municipality. Individuals can vote in a referendum to split an existing municipality. We show that social welfare will
openaire   +4 more sources

A Public Company as a Challenger to a Private Monopoly: Providing Water to the Eternal City, 1865-1964 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHonline/2004/Bocquet.pdfInternational audienceRome is an exception among European capital cities: the thousand-year-old capital of the Pope's State only became the capital of the Italian national kingdom in 1870 and ...
Bocquet, Denis
core   +2 more sources

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