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Grafts of Creativity

open access: yesBRAC, 2015
Bòlit, Centre d’Art Contemporani. Girona, presents the annual Bòlit mentor program with the goal of strengthening interaction between contemporary creation and society. The idea is to invite artists to carry out workshops in secondary schools.
Carme Sais Gruart
doaj   +1 more source

Microscale Templating of Functional Particles Using Self‐Limiting Electrospray Deposition

open access: yesSmall, EarlyView.
Self‐limiting electrospray deposition (SLED) uses trapped charge in a growing film to redirect incoming material and produce highly targeted and uniform sprays. Here, nanoparticles are added to sprays to functionalize pre‐patterned electrodes and other devices.
Michael J. Grzenda   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Infrastructure Resilience in Service Utilities through Embedding Versatility in System Architecture

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Enhancing infrastructure resilience, a key component of transforming and sustainably developing service utilities, requires a transdisciplinary and systems engineering framework. Addressing vulnerabilities in system architecture offers opportunities for resilience improvements, thereby mitigating the environmental, social, and economic impacts
Bob Hasanabadi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Advances and Perspectives in UL‐94 V‐0 Rated Flame‐Retardant Polycarbonate: Addressing Challenges Under Per‐ and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Bans

open access: yesSafety Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Based on the challenges and motivations of global PFAS bans, this review highlights recent advances in strategies achieving UL‐94 V‐0 flame retardancy in polycarbonate while maintaining critical comprehensive performances, offering perspectives for future R&D. ABSTRACT This review focuses on the recent advancements in the development of UL‐94 V‐0 rated
Ting Sai   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Should I, as a Muslim, join or not Catholics in Churches?” Dilemmas of the Italian Muslim community

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2019
Italian Muslims represent 2.6% of the entire population and one-third of all foreigners, constituting a fragmented and pluralistic community. Recently, father Jacques Hamel, a French Catholic priest, was killed by two knife-wielding French men pledging ...
Nicola Luigi Bragazzi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Unpacking China's Digital Ascent in the Global South: The Case of Huawei in North Africa

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite frequent concerns in Western policy and media circles about the risks of using Chinese telecommunications suppliers, firms like Huawei have encountered little resistance from governments or citizens in the Global South. Empirical research explaining this acceptance remains limited.
Tin Hinane El Kadi
wiley   +1 more source

How FDI reshapes host markets’ trade profile and politics

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract A fast‐growing literature indicates that firms’ engagement in foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade is key to understanding deepening global value chains and their political implications. However, existing studies have mainly focused on the ramifications for FDI home countries while often overlooking the firm‐product level interactions ...
In Song Kim, Steven Liao, Sayumi Miyano
wiley   +1 more source

Presence of coronary artery disease in diabetic and non diabetic South Asian immigrants

open access: yesIndian Heart Journal, 2018
Introduction: South Asian Immigrants (SAIs) are the second fastest growing Asian immigrant population in the US, and at a higher risk of type 2 diabetes (diabetes) and coronary artery disease (CAD) than the general US population. Objectives: We sought to
Sunita Dodani, Gyanendra K. Sharma
doaj   +1 more source

Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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