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Why Public Service Underperforms: Behavioural Governance, Misconduct, and Administrative Inefficiency in a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) Administration [PDF]

International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Despite repeated waves of public service reform, administrative inefficiency remains a persistent challenge across many public administrations. Existing explanations commonly emphasize institutional design, implementation failure, or capacity limitations,
Abdul Yoosuf, Ismail Nizam, Noor Hanif
doaj   +1 more source

Architecture‐Driven Functional Coupling in Vertically Aligned Nanocomposites

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Vertically aligned nanocomposites define a growth‐engineered architecture in which vertical interfaces, strain fields, defect pathways, and phase connectivity are created simultaneously. This review shows how these architectural features couple ferroic, optical, ionic, electrochemical, and device responses, establishing design rules and open challenges
Md Shatil Islam‐Shanto, Javier Zamudio‐García, Abraham Sánchez‐Caballero, David Marrero‐López, Vincenzo Esposito   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Magneto‐Mechanically Activated Nerve Guidance Conduit Promotes Peripheral Nerve Regeneration via TIMP1‐Mediated Membrane Tension Transfer

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a magneto‐mechanical strategy that incorporates FP@MSCs into an aligned PCL/GelMA nerve guidance conduit. Magnetic stimulation increases membrane tension in FP@MSCs, triggering cytoskeletal remodeling, Schwann cell‐like differentiation, and TIMP1 secretion. TIMP1 activates ITGB1/CD63–FAK signaling in NE‐4C cells, increasing membrane
Xinyu Zhu, Yumin Wu, Xiang Gao, Tianlu Wang, Wanting Jia, Xueying Mei, Huanzhong Ji, Zongxi Wu, Yujie Liang, Xiang Li, Kan Li, Jingyuan Li, Guangsen Zheng, Guiqing Liao, Siyong Gao   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Studying Islands: On Whose Terms? Some Epistemological and Methodological Challenges to the Pursuit of Island Studies [PDF]

, 2008
The pursuit of nissology, or island studies, calls for a re-centering of focus from mainland to island, away from the discourse of conquest of mainlanders, giving voice and platform for the expression of island narratives. Yet, studying islands ‘on their
Baldacchino, Godfrey, Godfrey Baldacchino   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Out‐of‐Plane Strain‐Decoupled Architecture for High‐Fill‐Factor Stretchable OLED Displays

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A vertically decoupled multilayer SOLED architecture separates emissive pixel islands from deformable interconnects, allowing low‐modulus elastomeric layers to accommodate applied strain and suppress strain transfer to the OLED region. This design, combined with transparent hybrid encapsulation, enables a high fill factor (∼75%), stretchability ...
Young Hyun Son, Kyung Cheol Choi, Jeong Hyun Kwon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Economic Vulnerability of Small Island Developing States and the Least Developed Countries [PDF]

Macro vulnerability of the small island developing states (SIDS) as well as of least developed countries (LDCs) has been an increasing concern for the international community.
Patrick GUILLAUMONT
core  

Stabilization of Strongly Reduced Fe(I) Single Atom Species Coordinated in a 2D Self‐Assembled Metal–Organic Network

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A graphene‐supported 2D metal–organic network stabilizes highly reactive Fe(I)‐N4 single sites through Co‐induced charge redistribution. Combined experiments and theory reveal Fe(I) formation, oxygen‐driven oxidation, and O2 activation mechanisms, offering a strategy to access low‐valent iron centers relevant to catalytic and biological processes ...
Alessandro Namar, Basant Roondhe, Michela De Col, Stefania Baronio, Matteo Jugovac, Mattia Scardamaglia, Eleanor Frampton, Nikolay Vinogradov, Paolo Giannozzi, Erik Vesselli   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Engineering Concentration‐Dependent Intravitreal Mobility via Cyclic Arginine‐Enriched Nanocarrier Surface Modification: In Vivo Proof‐of‐Concept in a Porcine Large Animal Model

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
In this study, Hammer et al. highlight cyclic‐arginine surface engineering as a highly biocompatible, controllable, and concentration‐dependent regulator of intravitreal nanoparticle mobility in vivo in a translational large animal model. The cyclic arginine surface‐modification supports the development of next‐generation biomaterials for long‐acting ...
Maximilian Hammer, Bryan Calder Ackermann, Anna Stoß, Niklas Junker, Ludwig Geisweid, Sabrina Wohlfart, Jonathan Herth, Simon William Pohl, Manuel Ben Böhmann, André Schulz, Victor Aristide Augustin, Gerd Uwe Auffarth, Philipp Uhl   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing Human Skin Equivalents: The Crucial Role of Neurovascular Integration

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review discusses the importance of integrating vascular and peripheral nerve systems into human skin equivalents (HSEs) to better recapitulate native skin physiology. Recent advances in vascularized, innervated, and neurovascularized HSEs are highlighted, together with emerging bioengineering strategies, current challenges, and future ...
Hao Wu, Lorenzo Moroni, Nicolas Lebonvallet, Vincent Flacher, Paul Wieringa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Warm versus Cold Water Island Tourism: A Review of Policy Implications [PDF]

, 2006
Not sun, sea, sand but ice, isolation, indigenous people: the critical exploration of extreme tourism in cold water locations has barely started. Cold water island locations tend to have harsh, pristine and fragile natural environments, characterized by ...
Baldacchino, Godfrey, Godfrey Baldacchino   +1 more
core   +1 more source