4 research outputs found
Participatory governance in Ukraine: A case study of anti-corruption policymaking in the period 2014-2018
No full textThe 2013-2014 Euromaidan Revolution, which culminated in the fall of the authoritarian and notoriously corrupt regime of President Victor Yanukovych has become a symbol of the triumph of civic activism in Ukraine. Although those events have attracted significant scholarly attention, the question whether the Ukrainian civil society's capacity for protest mobilization has successfully been channeled into sustained, formalized, and productive forms of civic participation in the process of public policymaking has remained largely unaddressed. Therefore, this paper sets out to examine whether civil society organizations (CSOs) have become more integrated into the Ukrainian policymaking process since the Euromaidan and whether the Revolution has led to a meaningful shift towards a more open and inclusive style of governance. Drawing on legal texts, external reports, and semi-structured interviews with Kyiv-based anti-corruption advocates, the study finds both a clear trend towards increased openness of the policymaking process to CSO input in the immediate aftermath of the Revolution as well as the insufficient consolidation and institutionalization of such participatory mechanisms, which ultimately makes them vulnerable to the preferences of individual players and broader changes in political attitudes.status: Published onlin
Towards a Resource-Aware Programming Architecture for Smart Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
No full textTechnical report DCS-TR-63
STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE CYCLOPROPENE RADICAL CATION STUDIED BY HIGH-RESOLUTION PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY
No full textAuthor Institution: Laboratorium fur Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandHigh-resolution photoelectron spectra of cyclopropene (c-CH) and several of its deuterated isotopomers have been recorded. From the analysis of the almost fully resolved rotational structure of the origin of the ionizing transition of c-CH, c-CHD, c-CHD, c-CHD and c-CD and the observation of several low-lying vibrational levels of the corresponding cations, we conclude that the cyclopropene cation has an equilibrium structure deviating from symmetry. We believe that the cation is subject to a large-amplitude tunnelling motion along a mode of a symmetry involving a twist of the CH group and an asymmetric out-of-plane bending of the CH units. The reasons for this belief and also currently unresolved aspects of our analysis will be discussed. %\newcounter{Refcounter} %\\begin{list}{[\arabic{Refcounter}]\hfill}{\usecounter{Refcounter} \topsep=0mm \partopsep=2mm \itemsep=0mm \parsep=0mm \labelwidth=5mm \labelsep=2mm \leftmargin=7mm} % \item\label{ref1} K. Vasilatou, M. Schafer and F. Merkt, \textsl{J. Phys. Chem. A} \textbf{2010}, \textsl{114}, 11085. % \item\label{ref2} A. B. Burrill and P. M. Johnson, \textsl{J. Chem. Phys.} \textbf{2001}, \textsl{115}, 133. %\\end{list
HEREWEAR HUB
No full textThe HEREWEAR HUB is an online repository of systemic knowledge derived from the HEREWEAR project partners. HEREWEAR is an EC Horizon 2020 project which aimed to empower a bio-based, local and circular textiles ecosystem. Extensive research was conducted by the author during the 4 year duration of the project to build an understanding of stakeholder perspectives which informed the design, content and format of the HEREWEAR HUB. The HUB includes an animations, short films, diagrams and texts which are all part of the design translation from codified scientific knowledge into resources for the stakeholder community
