The militarisation of central Asia – a new great game? by Pardesi, Manjeet S

“…Russia will continue to be a player, thanks to geography, and will be joined by the United States and two Asian powers – China and India. …”
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Computational design of a novel soft-Xray-based turbulence diagnostic in NSTX-U by Chen, Xiang

“…This model computes synthetic SXR measurements, which are then reconstructed using tomographic algorithms to derive electron temperature fluctuations. …”
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Globalization : Perak's Rise, Relative Decline, and Regeneration / by Nazrin Shah Ibni Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah, Sultan, 543480, Oxford University Press (Online service) 655242

“…This book ties together various sub-themes: economic geography, the institutional legacy of colonialism, increasing federal government centralization, forces of economic agglomeration and human migration, which drove Perak’s fortunes in sometimes dramatic economic cycles and ultimately led to the collapse of its tin and rubber industries and the migration of many of its young and skilled. …”
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Analysis and mitigation of spatial integration errors for the material point method by Baumgarten, Aaron S., Kamrin, Ken

“…The material point method (MPM) is a robust numerical simulation approach for continuum mechanics problems involving large material deformations coupled to changing surface topographies. These types of problems are present in many different engineering contexts, from understanding the failure processes of earthen slopes to predicting the strengths and failure mechanisms of body armor to modeling the impact forces of waves in fluid tanks. …”
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Strengthening economic linkages between South Asia and East Asia : the case for a second round of "look east" policies by Rana, Pradumna B., Chia, Wai-Mun

“…Such policies would allow both regions to benefit mutually and in a shared manner not only from the static complementarities of the Hecksher-Ohlin type but also the dynamic complementarities based on augmented product fragmentation and new geography theories proposed by Jones and Kierzkowski (1990) and Kimura and Mitsuyo (2005). …”
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Euro-Mediterranean populism: navigating populist foreign policy around the Mare Nostrum by Giurlando, Philip, Wajner, Daniel, Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…Populist politics in Southern Europe displays several distinctive patterns related to a shared history, geography, culture, and economy, while being subject to similar geopolitical pressures. …”
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Hydrous melting driven upwelling from the mantle transition zone in the Mongolia plateau revealed by receiver function analysis by He, Jing, Xu, Mijian, Wu, Qingju, Zhang, Fengxue

“…We use receiver function to investigate the MTZ structure beneath the Mongolia Plateau using earthquakes recorded by 223 stations deployed in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. The topographies of the 410 km (D410) and 660 km (D660) discontinuities are both characterized by slight depressions in most parts of the Mongolia Plateau. …”
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Contesting Design: Ancestral Technology as Portal to Post-Design(s) by Reynolds-Cuéllar, Pedro

“…It is a form of world-making (design) that primarily supports cultural cohesion, is rooted in bounded geography, and has a history living through collective memory. …”
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The secret geographer: thinking aloud on legal engagements in scholar-activism by Brickell, K, Jeffrey, A, McConnell, F, Ahearn, A, Calkin, S, Klosterkamp, S

“…By beginning to unshroud the secrecy of such endeavours in geography, we hope the roundtable inspires others to think more and potentially share more on their varied legal engagements in scholar-activism moving forward.…”

Reading the transformation: the relationship between literature and territory in contemporary Veneto by Frezzato, E

“…Drawing on concepts pertaining geography, cultural anthropology, and landscape theory, the premise of this thesis is that territory is a complex geographic, historical, social, economic, and cultural entity of which landscape constitutes the visible stratum. …”

Digitalization, New Media, and Education for Sustainable Development / by Keller, Lars, editor 656283, Michelsen, Gerd, 1948-, editor 656284, Dür, Martin, 1974-, editor 656285, Bachri, Syamsul, 1983-, editor 656286, Zint, Michaela T. (Michaela Theresia), editor 656287, IGI Global (Online service) 631983

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Calling for validation: demonstrating the use of mobile phone data to validate integrated land use transportation models by Jiang, Shan, Viña-Arias, Laura, Zegras, Christopher, Ferreira, Joseph, Gonzalez, Marta

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Research on Traditional Village Spatial Differentiation from the Perspective of Cultural Routes: A Case Study of 338 Villages in the Miao Frontier Corridor by Zhao, Weiqi, Xiao, Dawei, Li, Jing, Xu, Ziyu, Tao, Jin

“…With the help of 91-satellite maps and a geographic information system (GIS), a cultural and geographic database of the traditional villages in the Miao Frontier Corridor was constructed to objectively explore the roles of the traditional villages’ natural geography, historical, and humanistic elements in the spatial categorization on a large scale. …”
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Dwelling encounters: migration, diversity and ambivalence in an Istanbul neighborhood by Biehl, K

“…It builds on an ethnographic study of a neighbourhood in Istanbul known as Kumkapı, which over recent decades has emerged as a zone of arrival and initial settlement for successive new waves of migrants coming from an ever more expanding geography. Consequently, today it stands as one of Istanbul’s most diverse residential neighbourhoods, with its population differentiated on innumerable fronts including ethnicity, religion, race, gender and age composition, legal rights and statuses, migration channels and intentions, employment opportunities, and the like. …”

Edible Bird's Nest treatment effects on subchondral bone and articular cartilage changes and synovial fluid proteome profiles in an osteoarthritis rabbit model by Syed Sulaiman, Sharifah Zakiah

“…The joints were subjected to micro-computed tomographic (micro-CT) analysis and histological evaluation. …”
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