The Caliphate at War: Ideology, War Fighting and State-Formation by Hashim, Ahmed Salah

“…History is given short shrift, often leading to misjudgments. If Iraq's past had been better understood, some mistakes might have been avoided. …”
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Role of vegetation on beach run-up due to regular and cnoidal waves by Noarayanan, L., Murali, K., Sundar, V.

“…Although, several formulae have been derived in the past for estimation of run-up in laboratory studies for a variety of wave front structures, certain uncertainties still remain pertaining to flat slopes and long waves. …”
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Comparison of Two Metallic Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Selective Laser Melting and Electron Beam Melting by Kok, Yihong, Tor, Shu Beng, Loh, Ngiap Hiang

“…The method is by reviewing past literature from sources such as scientific databases, journals, conferences and webpages. …”
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The application of graphene oxide in drug delivery by Pan, Yongzheng, Sahoo, Nanda Gopal, Li, Lin

“…Among them, the application of GO to drug delivery has attracted ever-increasing interest in the past few years. Areas covered: In this article, the authors summarize the latest progress of utilizing GO in the field of drug delivery. …”
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Blind drawing: investigation into screen location tracking for computer aided interactive drawing by Fernando, Sandra

“…Even though some technologies have been experimented in the past, blind learners have not been keen on tactile drawing due to: the difficulty of the drawing task, the length of time taken to complete a simple task and the inefficiency of the drawing experience. …”
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State and faith: the supply-side theory of religion and the case of Turkey by Gurses, Mehmet, Fox, Jonathan, Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi

“…We draw on Turkey - a Muslim-majority country governed by the pro-Islamist Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi - AKP) for the past two decades - to examine some underexplored implications of the supply-side theory of religion. …”

Unique composition and evolutionary histories of large low velocity provinces by Panton, J, Davies, JH, Koelemeijer, P, Myhill, R, Ritsema, J

“…Using simulations of 3-D global mantle circulation over the past 1 Gyr, we find that two antipodal LLVPs develop naturally as a consequence of Earth’s recent subduction history and the gravitational settling and stirring of SOC. …”

Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire by Dorling, D, Tomlinson, S

“…<i>Rule Britannia</i> is a powerful call to leave behind the jingoistic ignorance of the past and build a fairer Britain, eradicating the inequality that blights our society and embracing our true strengths.…”

Annual budgets and rolling budgets use in UK and Australian firms by Bhimani, A, Sivabalan, P, Soonawalla, K, Wakefield, J

“…The metareporting and analysis of operational budget trends outside North America have been sparse and academically under-reported in the past 20 years. Innovations such as the rolling budget have challenged and/or supplemented traditional annual budgets, while organisations increasingly demand more flexible budgeting approaches. …”

Imagining desirable futures: a call for prospective theorizing with speculative rigour by Gümüsay, AA, Reinecke, J

“…With the looming planetary emergency, the future will be anything but an extension of the past. Yet theorizing the future poses a peculiar problem. …”

What can palaeoclimate modelling do for you? by Haywood, A, Valdes, P, Aze, T, Barlow, N, Burke, A, Dolan, A, Von Der Heydt, A, Hill, D, Jamieson, S, Otto-Bliesner, B, Salzmann, U, Saupe, E, Voss, J

“…Here we provide an assessment of the contribution of past (palaeo) climate modelling to multidisciplinary science and to society by answering the following question: What can palaeoclimate modelling do for you? …”

The devil is in the details: an evaluation of recent feature encoding methods by Chatfield, K, Lempitsky, V, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…A large number of novel encodings for bag of visual words models have been proposed in the past two years to improve on the standard histogram of quantized local features. …”

A survey of few-shot learning for biomedical time series by Li, C, Denison, T, Zhu, T

“…An emerging approach to overcome the scarcity of labeled data is to augment AI methods with human-like capabilities to leverage past experiences to learn new tasks with limited examples, called few-shot learning. …”

Deep mutation, insertion and deletion scanning across the Enterovirus A proteome reveals constraints shaping viral evolution by Bakhache, W, Symonds-Orr, W, McCormick, L, Dolan, PT

“…Some of these hotspots overlap with sites of host recognition and immune engagement, suggesting tolerance at these sites reflects the important role InDels have played in the past phenotypic diversification of Enterovirus A.…”

The manga whisperer: automatically generating transcriptions for comics by Sachdeva, R, Zisserman, A

“…In the past few decades, Japanese comics, commonly referred to as Manga, have transcended both cultural and linguistic boundaries to become a true worldwide sensation. …”

The immunology underlying CNS autoantibody diseases by Cleaver, J, Ceronie, B, Strippel, C, Handel, A, Irani, SR

“…The past two decades have seen a considerable paradigm shift in the way autoimmune CNS disorders are considered, diagnosed, and treated; largely due to the discovery of novel autoantibodies directed at neuroglial surface or intracellular targets. …”

Imagining justice in the Athenian lawcourt: Aeschines and others by Westwood, G

“…The author argues that one of Demosthenes’ aims was to counteract the persuasive effects of a vivid passage of enargeia in Aeschines’ speech: Demosthenes’ response engages with Aeschines’ use of enargeia but refocuses the judges’ imaginations, seeking to efface Aeschines’ versions of the past. This case study highlights the interaction between real and imaginary in lawcourt speeches: litigants craft arguments in such a way as to build upon – and reconfigure – judges’ grasp of the details of the case and wider aspects of their civic experience (in this case their cultural memory).…”

Climate risk disclosure and financial performance of high carbon emission companies in China by Norman Mohd Saleh, Duan Shuang

“…Unlike past studies that focus on environment, social and governance disclosure, this study aims to examine the association between climate risk disclosure (CRD) and corporate financial performance (FP). …”
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Evolution of emergency management in Malaysia by Aini, Mat Said, Fakhru’l‐Razi, Ahmadun, Daud, Mohamed

“…In this article, the history of the evolution of various Safety and Emergency Laws, Regulations and Acts in the country since independence in 1957 until the establishment of the Permanent Guidelines for Disaster Management and Relief Operations in 1997 is presented. Lessons from past disasters and the rapid expansion of industrialisation have greatly influenced the evolution of safety and emergency management in Malaysia. …”
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Green gross domestic product: a bibliometric analysis by Karunanithi, Kriskkumar, Bui, Wency Kher Thinng, Tan, Houng Chien

“…This paper analyses the bibliographic data of 1321 articles retrieved from the Scopus database to shed some light on the GGDP literature for the past 47 years (1976–2022). Using VOSviewer, a combination of performance analysis (publication trend, top authors, top countries, top journals) and science mapping techniques (co-citation and co-occurrence) were employed. …”