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The Social Construction of Successful Market Reforms [PDF]

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The transition from socialism to capitalism has spawned a large literature on comparative policy reforms. While many sociologists using qualitative data have concluded that neo-liberal reforms led to negative outcomes, a large body of cross-national ...
Greg Patton   +2 more
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Intelligent Sky Guardians (InSkyGuard): An Aerial Robotic Swarm for Autonomous Detection and Entrapment of Rogue Multirotors

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Intelligent Sky Guardians (InSkyGuard) is introduced as a four‐drone swarm that autonomously detects, tracks, and safely captures rogue drones using a coordinated net system. Computer vision and leader–follower control architecture enable synchronized enclosure, while integrated failsafes enhance system reliability. Validated through closed‐environment
Joshua Hastings   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

IDEAS FOR TRANSFORMING THE STATE STRUCTURE OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE DURING THE REIGN OF ALEXANDER I (DEDICATED TO THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECEMBRIST REVOLT OF 1825)

open access: yesПравовое государство: теория и практика
Russian society associated the beginning of the reign of Alexander I with political, economic and social reforms in the state. Serfdom, restrictions of civil liberties, the need for structural changes in the state administration, the formation of ...
PETROV Alexander Vasilievich
doaj   +1 more source

Democratic anchorage through administrative reforms

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Published online: April 2025This note develops the concept of democratic anchorage as an analytical lens for assessing how administrative reforms contribute to the legitimacy of public governance.
KOVAREK, Dániel   +8 more
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Pholidota‐Inspired Electronic Skin Possessing Terahertz‐Wave Reflection–Absorption–Transmission Switchability

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
The pholidota‐inspired electronic skin is successfully constructed, originally realized four‐state reversible switching of terahertz‐wave reflection, absorption, transmission, and secondary reflection. In response to external demands, it issues deformation instructions, verifies the deformation state after the equipment executes the action, and thus ...
Shangjing Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marginal commodity tax reforms: a survey [PDF]

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We summarize the main features and results of the literature on marginal commodity tax reforms as initiated by Ahmad and Stern (1984) and developed further by Yitzhaki and Thirsk (1990).
Alessandro Santoro
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Bench‐to‐Bedside Translation of Self‐Healing Colloidal Hydrogels as Next Generation Design of Flowable Hemostatic Matrix: From Preclinical Evaluation to Human Clinical Trials

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Self‐healing materials represent a paradigm shift in designing functional biomedical devices for drug delivery, tissue regeneration, and 3D bioprinting. However, their clinical translation remains limited by challenges such as insufficient mechanical strength, potential cytotoxicity from chemical modifications, and complex activation ...
Ganjun Feng   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Accessibility to Services and Increasing Efficiency Through Merger and Centralization in Québec

open access: yesHealth Reform Observer - Observatoire des Réformes de Santé, 2018
On 25 September 2014, Bill 10 was tabled to reorganize Québec’s health and social services network through the abolition of an administrative layer at the regional health authority level and institutional mergers of health and social services facilities
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, Renée Carter
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Tax systems and tax reforms in Europe: Rationale and open issue for more radical reforms

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This paper evaluates tax reforms introduced by EU members since the early 1990 and finds that they have been mostly limited and marginal. The paper suggests more radical reforms, particularly as to taxaion of labour, the main taxez, and the financing of ...
Luigi, Bernardi
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Pro-Poor Tax reforms, with an Application to Mexico [PDF]

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This paper proposes a new methodology to test for whether indirect tax reforms are pro-poor. The methodology extends stochastic dominance techniques and enables identifying tax reforms that will necessarily be deemed absolutely or relatively pro-poor by ...
Jean-Yves Duclos   +2 more
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