Chemistry smart phone app with gamification elements for personalised learning by Ng, Jo-Han, Wong, Yao Hing, Fong, William Woei Chong, Chong, Cheng Tung, Chjiatlsabelle, Wong Minh

“…This has immense potential to democratise personalised learning at national. level. …”

Interaction in open distance learning: Research issues in Malaysia by Dzakiria, Hisham, M Idrus, Rozhan, Atan, Hanafi

“…Open Distance Learning (ODL) is an excellent method of reaching adult learners.It is truly a medium that helps to democratise education to all. Certainly in Malaysia, with the mushrooming of many dual mode institutions that offer ODL and the establishment of the Open University Malaysia (OUM) and other private institutions that offer ODL courses, education is being made accessible to all.For many Malaysians, pursuing ODL is just a matter of choice.With the competing priorities of work, home and school, adult learners desire a high degree of flexibility.The structure of ODL provides learners with the greatest possible control over the time, place and pace of education; however, learning at a distance is not without problems. …”
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The Potential of Low-Cost 3D Imaging Technologies for Forestry Applications: Setting a Research Agenda for Low-Cost Remote Sensing Inventory Tasks by James McGlade, Luke Wallace, Karin Reinke, Simon Jones

“…Based on the literature review and survey, a suite of research directions are proposed to democratise the access to and development of low-cost 3D for forestry: (1) the development of methods for integrating standalone colour and depth (RGB-D) sensors into handheld or wearable devices; (2) the development of a sensor-agnostic method for determining the optimal capture procedures with low-cost RS technologies in forestry settings; (3) the development of simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) algorithms designed for forestry environments; and (4) the exploration of plot-scale forestry captures that utilise low-cost devices at both terrestrial and airborne scales.…”
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The Post-Communist State Era and Its Impact on Sovereignty: A Case Study of Kosovo by Salihe Salihu

“…However, in the post-communist era, it was not possible to democratise all sovereign states. Some states focused on the power and manner of expanding power in their respective territories and fought for the recognition of reconfi gured sovereignty at the expense of justice and rights. …”
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Il meccanismo di allerta precoce e il controllo politico dei parlamenti nazionali: un approccio critico alla questione democratica e ai vincoli imposti dal processo di integrazione by Giovanni Esposito, Tomaso Ferrando

“…𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟 – 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑎 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒- 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑈 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑚.…”
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Using Innovation to Develop Digital Tools for Public Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Kate Mark, Jay Bradley, Chaloner Chute, Colin Sumpter, Mahmood Adil, George Crooks

“…The innovative methods for development of digital health tools included adopting an iterative approach, addressing the situational requirements posed by COVID-19, and democratising technology for purposes of pandemic control. …”
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L’accès à la justice en contexte numérique : l’information juridique par et pour les justiciables sur les médias sociaux by Alexandra Bahary-Dionne

“…Les médias sociaux en particulier pourraient démocratiser l’information juridique dans la mesure où ils sont faciles d’utilisation, rassemblent une diversité de contenus et sont de plus en plus ancrés dans les activités quotidiennes. …”
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Stocks, memes, and desperation capitalism: an ethnographic case study of r/WallStreetBets by Nani, A

“…Increased availability of digital technologies, such as consumer-level investing platforms, have democratised the financial services industry. Similarly, social media has provided a new forum for retail investors, individuals who are investing without institutional support, to find and share financial advice. …”

Liberal organic democracy: a politics of active citizenship by Elliott, R

“…This theoretical model aims to democratise the development of political concepts: to uncover the holistic processes driving political engagement, and to demonstrate how they can be harnessed to the principle of democratic self-realisation.…”

The construction of professional identities in medical writing and fiction, c. 1830s-1910s by Moulds, ASE

“…</p> <p>My research demonstrates not only how medical journals fashioned networks among disparate groups of practitioners but also how they facilitated professional rivalries. I reveal the democratising tendency of print culture, highlighting how it enabled a range of medical men and women to write about practice. …”

Burden-sharing in peace operations: quantitative studies on the global, regional, and national level by Meiske, M

“…The third article, ‘Public Attention, Elections, and Peace Operations: Democratising the Making of Peacekeeping Policy’, focuses on the national level and analyses whether countries’ peacekeeping contributions are adjusted in the run-up to elections contingent upon public attention; the analysis deploys Google search data as a measure for public attention in panel data regression models. …”

CSR UUMWiFi: A University's effort in bridging digital divide among rural community by Abdul Hamid, Mohd Noor, Mustaffa, Nurakmal Ahmad, Mohamad Mohsin, Mohamad Farhan, Ramli, Razamin, Abdullah, Kamarudin

“…As a response to the government effort to bridge digital divide and democratising access to the Internet, particularly in rural area, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) has taken a proactive step to provide free wireless internet connection for Sintok-Changlun community known as CSR UUMWiFi. …”
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Citizens local political participation in the Czech Republic: rural-urban comparison by J. Cmejrek

“…The contemporary democracy has to face the decrease in voter turnout and the low interest of citizens to assume responsibility within the political process. The spread of democratising process following the fall of the iron curtain should not overshadow the risk of internal weakness of democracy. …”
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Art et territoire : repenser l’innovation comme geste de savoir-faire et de partage by Fiona DELAHAIE

“…L’éphémère, temporalité propre au vivant, tend à se démocratiser et à imprégner l’art in situ dans ses formes les plus diverses. …”
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International legal regulation of the right to adequate environment by Vukasović Vid

“…Due to that, the whole process of implementation of the convention has become unavoidable for all candidate countries, as a proof of their intent to apply in practice environmental legislation and to democratise their societies.…”
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Youth visions in a changing climate: Emerging lessons from using immersive and arts-based methods for strengthening community-engaged research with urban youth by Nadia Sitas, Odirilwe Selomane, Ffion Atkins, CareCreative, DFeat once, Urban Khoi soldier, Mac1, Elona Hlongwane, Sandile Fanana, Theresa Wigley, Teresa Boulle

“…To address this, we embarked on a participatory action research process which focused on democratising research, science and the arts by facilitating experiential, immersive learning opportunities with the intention of eventually co-producing artifacts (in the form of participatory murals) in public spaces to facilitate longer term engagement with human nature futures. …”
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Digital Art and the Metaverse: Benefits and Challenges by William Hurst, Orestis Spyrou, Bedir Tekinerdogan, Caspar Krampe

“…Research presented in this article will be beneficial for those looking to explore the Metaverse for artwork and develop virtual galleries, and the findings further highlight the Metaverse as a potential democratising force in the art world.…”
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Exploring 'smart citizenship' as a socio-technical ecology: the case of Oxfordshire, UK by Packer, AM

“…Critical social science scholarship on ‘smart citizenship’ has thus far emphasised ‘bottom-up’ participation as a democratising antidote to ‘top-down’ corporate or state-led smart cities. …”

Can artificial intelligence accelerate the diagnosis of inherited retinal diseases? Protocol for a data-only retrospective cohort study (Eye2Gene) by Nguyen, Q, Woof, W, Kabiri, N, Sen, S, Daich Varela, M, Cabral De Guimaraes, TA, Shah, M, Sumodhee, D, Moghul, I, Al-Khuzaei, S, Liu, Y, Hollyhead, C, Tailor, B, Lobo, L, Veal, C, Archer, S, Furman, J, Arno, G, Gomes, M, Fujinami, K, Madhusudhan, S, Mahroo, OA, Webster, AR, Balaskas, K, Downes, SM, Michaelides, M, Pontikos, N

“…The aim of the current project is to address the evidence gap in IRD diagnosis with an AI algorithm, Eye2Gene, to accelerate and democratise the IRD diagnosis service.</p> <p><strong>Methods and analysis</strong> The data-only retrospective cohort study involves a target sample size of 10 000 participants, which has been derived based on the number of participants with IRD at three leading UK eye hospitals: Moorfields Eye Hospital (MEH), Oxford University Hospital (OUH) and Liverpool University Hospital (LUH), as well as a Japanese hospital, the Tokyo Medical Centre (TMC). …”

Evaluating assistive artificial intelligence technology for ultrasound scanning in regional anaesthesia by Bowness, JS

“…Artificial intelligence (AI) has been proposed to aid ultrasound scanning in RA, to democratise patient access to the benefits of these techniques. …”