U.S. policy failures and North Korean nuclear non-proliferation by John Bringe

“…This has been an issue on U.S. radar since the early 1990's, but to date, little success has been achieved in efforts to curb nuclear proliferation on the Korean Peninsula. …”
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Westminister in Uk context by Haughey, Sean, Shephard, Mark, Stirbu, Diana

“…However, the constitutional context has changed dramatically since devolution. Initiated in 1998, devolution transferred certain powers to legislatures in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, enabling a degree of self-rule over domestic affairs. …”
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Local-flexural interactive buckling of S690 high strength steel slender welded I-section columns: testing, modelling and design by Sun, Yao, Liang, Yating, Su, Andi, Zhao, Ou

“…A testing programme, adopting two S690 high strength steel slender welded I-sections, was firstly conducted and included initial geometric imperfection measurements and ten pin-ended column tests. The testing programme was accompanied by a numerical modelling programme, where finite element models were developed and validated against the test results and then employed to perform parametric studies to generate further numerical data over a wide range of cross-section dimensions and member effective lengths. …”
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Rethinking China's engagement in Africa. by Liu, Xue.

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Adhesion of plasma sprayed bioceramic coatings by Ye, Xuejun.

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Robotic assisted upper limb training post stroke : a randomized control trial using combinatory approach toward reducing workforce demands by Budhota, Aamani, Chua, Karen S. G., Hussain, Asif, Kager, Simone, Cherpin, Adèle, Contu, Sara, Vishwanath, Deshmukh, Kuah, Christopher W. K., Ng, Chwee Yin, Yam, Lester H. L., Loh, Yong Joo, Rajeswaran, Deshan Kumar, Xiang, Liming, Burdet, Etienne, Campolo, Domenico

“…Both groups received 18 sessions of 90 min; three sessions per week over 6 weeks. In each session, participants of the CT group received 90 min of 1:1 therapist-supervised conventional therapy while participants of the RT group underwent combinatory training which consisted of 60 min of minimally-supervised H-Man therapy followed by 30 min of conventional therapy. …”
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Trend analysis of contemporary China's administrative reform by He, Fei

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Fabrication of large-area ordered Au nano-ring arrays for the electrochemical removal and sensing of rhodamine 6G molecules by Cao, Xun

“…The ordered Au NRA could perform the electrochemical removal of rhodamine 6G (R-6G) at a high concentration in seawater within 12 min and complete discoloration within 9 min, which demonstrates ~7 times efficiency improvement from previous studies. …”
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Optimization of operational conditions for continuous membrane distillation crystallization process with zero discharge by Lim, Deric Weikang.

“…Results from the analysis were verified experimentally, and it was deduced that a feed flow rate and temperature of 0.64 L/min and 338 K respectively, together with a permeate flow rate of 0.35 L/min and permeate temperature of 303 K, gave the highest production rates of pure water and sodium chloride crystals. …”
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Social Structure and Social Stratification in Contemporary China / by Xueyi, Lu, author 654605, Wittrock, Yan Peng, translator 654606

“…Lu Xueyi, the former Head of the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has published since the 1980s. The author discusses the social structure, social stratification, social construction, and development of contemporary Chinese society. …”

Prospects of a multipolar international monetary order by Alam Md Whaheed

“…The US dollar has been the dominant international currency ever since the introduction of Bretton Woods system. It has experienced turmoil periods at different moments but survived. …”
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MANET test-bed implementation and performance analysis by Cai, Ruojun

“…Wireless mobile ad hoc network is a infrastructure less network where each node not only acts as a host but also acts as a router. Since the nodes are mobile, the environment is highly dynamic. …”
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Dynamic clustering for social networks based on evolutionary computation by Fariz Cheang Mohd Khairi

“…Dynamic network clustering requires more attention since social networks are dynamic and any minor changes to its network alters the structure entirely. …”
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‘Russian military censorship, like the Russian warship, can go f*** itself.’ An analysis of Russian independent media response to wartime media freedom restrictions by Raspopina, Aleksandra

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Meaning and speech acts by Rumfitt, I

“…We do better to follow the Peircean account recently developed by Richard Moran: to tell H something is to offer H one’s guarantee of the truth of what one says. Since truth-conditions now emerge as intrinsic to acts of telling, and since Strawson’s theorists of formal semantics assign truth-conditions to declarative sentences, what they provide is central to an account of telling. …”

Engineering memristor : control over the fourth fundamental element for memory application and beyond by Ge, Ning

“…This is especially shown in the recent neuromorphic computing since both neuron and memristor operate in ions. …”
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Simultaneous Measurements of Actin Filament Turnover, Filament Fraction, and Monomer Diffusion in Endothelial Cells by McGrath, J. L., Tardy, Y., Dewey, C. F. Jr, Meister, J. J., Hartwig, J. H.

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Performance improvements of microchannel heat sink using wavy channel and nanofluids by Sakanova, Assel, Keian, Chan Chun, Zhao, Jiyun

“…Three wave amplitudes of 25 μm, 50 μm and 75 μm with two wavelength of 250 μm and 500 μm at volumetric flow rate ranges from 0.152 L/min to 0.354 L/min are considered. Three different types of nanofluids with volume concentration ranges from 1% to 5% are applied. …”
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A composite electrode of TiO2 nanotubes and nanoparticles synthesised by hydrothermal treatment for use in dye-sensitized solar cells by Wang, Hairong, Zhao, Dongliang, Huo, Kaifu, Fu, Jijiang, Wang, Xiaoyan, Sun, Lidong, Zhang, Sam, Wang, Xiu

“…Under the same treatment duration (i.e., 45 min), but using different nanotube lengths, nanoparticle formation was found to be accelerated in the longer tubes. …”
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Thermal and mechanical assessments of the 3D-printed conformal cooling channels : computational analysis and multi-objective optimization by Shen, Suping, Kanbur, Baris Burak, Zhou, Yi, Duan, Fei

“…As for the circular channel, the coolant temperature, volume flow rate, and channel diameter are selected as the parameters within the ranges of 288.0-298.0 K, 1.0-10.0 L/min, and 2.1-2.5 mm, respectively. According to these parameters, the multi-objective optimization study is performed and the best trade-off point is found at the channel diameter of 2.5 mm, coolant temperature of 297 K, and the flow rate of 1 L/min when all the objectives have equal weights in the optimization problem.…”
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