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Book review: speaking out: lessons in life and politics by Ed Balls [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
21 years after leaving a career in journalism to work for Labour in opposition, following shock defeat in the May 2015 general election, then UK Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls abruptly found himself without a job.
Carrol, Peter
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Enhancing Corrosion Resistance and Mechanical Strength of 3D‐Printed Iron Polylactic Acid for Marine Applications via Laser Surface Texturing

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Laser surface texturing significantly improves the corrosion resistance and mechanical strength of 3D‐printed iron polylactic acid (Ir‐PLA) for marine applications. Optimal laser parameters reduce corrosion by 80% and enhance tensile strength by 25% and ductility by 15%.
Mohammad Rezayat   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Metastable City and the Politics of Crystallisation: Protesting and Policing in Kampala

open access: yesAfrica Spectrum, 2016
When protests break out in downtown Kampala they tend to transform a fluid urban environment into bounded political camps, and myriad ambiguous concerns into comparatively clear-cut political issues.
Joschka Philipps, Jude Kagoro
doaj  

Performative Utopias: Making Space, Taking Time, Doing Differently?

open access: yesPerformance Philosophy
In an increasingly dystopian world, the notion of ‘utopia’ might seem all but obliterated, yet at the same time, it has become a productive concept for social theory and cultural practice.
Teemu Paavolainen
doaj   +1 more source

Villes sanctuaires versus État fédéral à l’ère de Trump : des politiques étrangères locales dissidentes

open access: yesMétropoles, 2020
Donald Trump's accession to the White House January 2017 and his first migration policy initiatives provoked opposition from a number of American cities and states.
Nicolas Maisetti
doaj   +1 more source

Loyal Opposition and the Political Constitution [PDF]

open access: yesOxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2016
In studying Parliament, special attention is regularly awarded to the interactions between government and Commons, with the Commons identified as a singular body, united in its claims against or in support of the government. These and other commonplace understandings trade on an insufficiently political study of the constitution, highlighted by the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Divisive Politics and Accountability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The paper analyzes a political accountability game with an electorate of 'partisan' and 'independent' voters. It is shown that politicians have a strategic incentive to engage in 'divisive politics', that is, to force some independent voters to take ...
Kiss, Áron
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Composite Electrospun Fibers Containing Optimized B‐ and Cu‐Doped Bioactive Glass Sol‐Gel Particles for Potential Soft Tissue Engineering Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
This article describes the preparation and characterization of poly(ε‐caprolactone) electrospun composite fibers incorporating sol‐gel‐derived bioactive glass particles doped with B and Cu. Scanning electron microscopy, energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy, Fourier‐transform infrared spectroscopy, contact angle, acellular bioactivity, mechanical and ...
Elisa Piatti   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physician activism in American politics: The opposition to the Price nomination.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
Although a substantial literature considers physician advocacy fundamental to medical professionalism, only a minority of physicians actually pursue it.
Adam Bonica   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stato, imperio, dominio. Sur l’unité des notions d’État et d’empire au XVIe siècle

open access: yesAstérion, 2012
The dialectic opposition between state and empire may not be a useful tool to finely understand the historical process that it intends to explain. Instead of opposing what is actually owed to empires and not to what was thought to be owed to states, the ...
Romain Descendre
doaj   +1 more source

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