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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review presents recent progress in vision‐augmented wearable interfaces that combine artificial vision, soft wearable sensors, and exoskeletal robots. Inspired by biological visual systems, these technologies enable multimodal perception and intelligent human–machine interaction.
Jihun Lee +4 more
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Civilizar, 2015 With the constitutions of 1991 and 1978 as a benchmark, Colombia and Spain have respectively regulated various instruments of participatory democracy.
Alfredo Ramírez Nárdiz
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The Significance of the European Citizens' Initiative for Pan-European Participatory Democracy [PDF]
, 2013 The Lisbon Treaty has introduced a new Article 11 of the Treaty on European Union (TUE) that creates a European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) allowing one million citizens from a significant number of member states to invite the European Commission to ...
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Shaping Carbon Nitrides for Advanced Macrostructures
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review examines how carbon nitride can be shaped through a range of printing and interfacial assembly methods. By bringing together additive manufacturing and liquid–liquid structuring concepts, carbon nitride is moving beyond its traditional powder‐based photocatalyst form toward digitally designed robust macroscale architectures with high design
Simona Baluchová, Baris Kumru
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Public Spending, By The People: Participatory Budgeting in the United States and Canada in 2014-15 [PDF]
, 2016 From 2014 to 2015, more than 70,000 residents across the United States and Canada directly decided how their cities and districts should spend nearly $50 million in public funds through a process known as participatory budgeting (PB).
Carolin Hagelskamp +3 more
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Nanocrystal Quality–Controlled Scintillation in Porous YAG:Ce Aerogels
Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.High‐temperature thermal treatment of YAG:Ce nanoscintillator aerogels increases light yield under ionizing radiation by up to eightfold without affecting timing performance. Additionally, low‐temperature atmospheric treatments reversibly modify the cerium oxidation state, revealing strong defect sensitivity and offering new strategies to optimize ...
Pavlo Mai +11 more
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DEMOCRACIA, POLÍTICA SOCIAL E LUTA HEGEMÔNICA
Revista de Políticas Públicas, 2015 This paper reports about the possibility of building social policies within a process that aims the democratic radicality that can be ensured through participatory processes, but also necessarily representative.
Maria del Carmen Cortizo
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Immigration and Local Urban Participatory Democracy: A Boston-Paris Comparison [PDF]
This paper deals with a comparison of two governmental initiatives in the direction of immigrants – the Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians (Boston, 1998) and Conseil de la Citoyenneté des Parisiens Non-Communautaires (Paris, 2001).
Linda Chaib
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Participation and Watershed Management: Experiences from Brazil [PDF]
, 2007 Public participation is emphasized in many new institutional approaches to resource management, especially watershed governance. The implementation of participatory management frameworks, and capacity-building for civil society participants, deserve ...
Perkins, Patricia E. (Ellie)
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Strategic Design of Soft Actuators in Translational Medical Robotics for Human‐Centered Healthcare
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Soft robotics enables biocompatible, compliant medical devices, but clinical translation requires design‐driven engineering beyond materials. This perspective reviews implantable, surgical, and wearable systems by actuation mechanism, highlighting how optimized architectures and integration improve mechanical interfacing, adaptability, and durability ...
Ho Jun Jin +3 more
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