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Crack‐Growing Interlayer Design for Deep Crack Propagation and Ultrahigh Sensitivity Strain Sensing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A crack‐growing semi‐cured polyimide interlayer enabling deep cracks for ultrahigh sensitivity in low‐strain regimes is presented. The sensor achieves a gauge factor of 100 000 at 2% strain and detects subtle deformations such as nasal breathing, highlighting potential for minimally obstructive biomedical and micromechanical sensing applications ...
Minho Kim, Taewi Kim, Jieun Park, Insic Hong, Myungrae Hong, Seonggyeong Park, Beomjin Kim, Sehyuk Ahn, Siwoo Jang, Seungyong Han, Je‐Sung Koh, Daeshik Kang   +11 more
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From Representation to Participation: A More Democratic European Union?

EIRP Proceedings, 2012
The present paper analyzes the evolution and characteristics of the democratic process in theEuropean Union from the perspective of political science using the recent theories in this field. Following theentry into force, the Treaty of Lisbon establishes
Marcela Monica Stoica
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The effect of new technologies on civic participation models [PDF]

, 2018
The development of new technologies will enable decentralization and freedom of communication for large numbers of people, by overcoming the barriers that once rendered direct participation of society unfeasible.
Holubiak, Nataliia
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Reconfigurable Magnetic Soft Microrobot for Acoustically Triggered Targeted Bacterial Sterilization

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Reconfigurable magnetic soft microrobots integrate in situ‐grown piezoelectric zinc oxide nanorods that produce reactive oxygen species upon acoustic excitation. Combining magnetically guided transport with thermally induced planar reconfiguration, the microrobots achieve targeted delivery and enhanced bacterial sterilization through efficient on ...
Quan Gao, Fan Li, Jiajie Gao, Elric Zhang, Yingdong Su, Ni Qin, Hao Ye, Josep Puigmartí, Giuseppe Cantarella, Simone Schuerle, Jiang Wu, Bradley J. Nelson, Salvador Pané   +12 more
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"Stars in the Arena?" Democracy Theory and its Implications for Participatory Research

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2012
Participatory methods aim to democratize and critique societies. However, their understanding of democracy has never been questioned. It is crucial to undertake such an analysis in order to fullyrecognize the critical potential of research  employing a ...
Monika Götsch, Sabine Klinger, Andreas Thiesen   +2 more
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From skepticism to mutual support: towards a structural change in the relations between participatory budgeting and the information and communication technologies? [PDF]

, 2012
Until three years ago, ICT Technologies represented a main “subordinate clause” within the “grammar” of Participatory Budgeting (PB), the tool made famous by the experience of Porto Alegre and today expanded to more than 1400 cities across the planet. In

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On the Limits of Liberalism in Participatory Environmental Governance: Conflict and Conservation in Ukraine\u27s Danube Delta [PDF]

, 2015
Participatory management techniques are widely promoted in environmental and protected area governance as a means of preventing and mitigating conflict.
Adams, Agrawal, Agrawal, Allina-Pisano, Asad, Assche, Assche, Barber, Bassov, Berkes, Blaser, Brosius, Buscher, Buscher, Chernysheva, Clastres, Cleaver, Cleaver, Darden, DBR Administration, Dearden, Fedorenko, Fedorenko, Fitzpatrick, Francis, Heatherington, Held, Hickey, Hindess, Igoe, Kelly, Kovalenko, Koyano, Li, Mannigel, Mansuri, Mosse, Mouffe, Nadasdy, Nadasdy, Nazparzy, O'Riordan, Oushakine, Pederson, Pelkmans, Perice, Prell, Prigarin, Prigarin, Richardson, Sanders, Shevchenko, Shibutani, Shtefan, Silantieva-Skorobogatova, Silikova, Smirnov, Stringer, Stringer, Taylor, Udovichenko, Uriadovyi kurier, Vivieros de Castro, Voloshkevich, Vorotniuk, Walley, Wanner, Weiner, West, White, World Bank   +70 more
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Electrosynthesis of Bioactive Chemicals, From Ions to Pharmaceuticals

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review discusses recent advances in electrosynthesis for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications. It covers key electrochemical materials enabling precise delivery of ions and small molecules for cellular modulation and disease treatment, alongside catalytic systems for pharmaceutical synthesis.
Gwangbin Lee, Sojin Kim, Myeongeun Lee, Kyoungsuk Jin, Jimin Park   +4 more
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Challenges to Democracy and the Opportunity of a New Participatory Governance in the era of trans-local societies

H-ermes: Journal of Communication, 2014
The aim of this paper is to propose a theoretical reflection on the possible transformations of democracy in globalized societies. In this direction, the Author outlines the classical approaches to the analysis of democracy and then proposes a criticism ...
Fabio De Nardis
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How European Protest Transforms Institutions of the Public Sphere - Discourse and Decision-Making in the European Social Forum Process [PDF]

Against the background of the alleged democratic deficit of EU institutions, this case study explores how politicization and emerging transnational public spaces in European protest movements innovate existing practices of discursive or grassroots ...
Nicole Doerr
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