Our weapons, our problem: arms exports, democracy and civil society in Brazil and the UK by de Moraes, RF

“…Next, I examine why and how the governments of these two countries sought to export their practices to the rest of the world or opted to join international regimes.</p>…”

Emergent Democracy by Ito, Joichi

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The changing nature of Chinese business in Africa : the case of Cape Verde by Horta, Loro

“…Chinese state companies are usually singled out for criticism in the West due to their links with despotic African regimes all for the sake of profit. The nature of Chinese business in Africa is however becoming more complex.…”
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No Shangri-La for North Korea by Samaniego, Catherine

“…Kim Jong-un should expect to see his regime’s political leverage in Northeast Asia gradually reduced, while its biggest ally, China, remains preoccupied with its own domestic concerns.…”
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Non-newtonian fluids and droplets in microchannels by Huang, Yi

“…Different droplet formation regimes and the impact of AC electric field were considered when the measurements were conducted. …”
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Varieties of indoctrination: the politicization of education and the media around the world by Neundorf, A, Nazrullaeva, E, Northmore-Ball, K, Tertytchnaya, KT, Kim, W

“…For many decades, scholars assumed voluntary compliance and citizens’ commitment to a regime’s principles and values to be critical for regime stability. …”

Deep neural networks have an inbuilt Occam’s razor by Mingard, C, Rees, H, Valle-Pérez, G, Louis, AA

“…The prior over functions is determined by the network architecture, which we vary by exploiting a transition between ordered and chaotic regimes. For Boolean function classification, we approximate the likelihood using the error spectrum of functions on data. …”

Profiting from prestige: the political economy of mega-events in Azerbaijan by Laporte, J

“…By problematising the direction of causality between mega-events and rentseeking behaviour, this analysis expands current theories on states’ motivations for hosting these events and contributes to existing understandings about how these proceedings serve to support and sustain rentier regimes.…”

Conflict abroad and political trust at home evidence from a natural experiment by Klymak, M, Vlandas, T

“…Further analyses using other surveys and previous conflicts suggest this effect depends on proximity to the conflict and the political regimes of the attacked country. These findings contribute to our understanding of the complex and indirect effects of conflicts on domestic political trust.…”

Combining stratigraphy and tectonics to understand intermittent deposition on the outer rise offshore Sumatra, Indonesia by Tan, Li Ching

“…We present a robust method of estimating the ages of deep sea sediments at active margins by relating tectonic deformation of the sediments to a known deformation rate. …”
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Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry-sclerophyll forest by Bowd, Elle J., Egidi, Eleonora, Lindenmayer, David B., Wardle, David A., Kardol, Paul, Cary, Geoffrey J., Foster, Claire

“…In recent years, novel fire regimes have posed a major challenge to the management of pyrodiverse forests. …”
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Novel viral vector vaccines for tropical infections by Rampling, T

“…Two studies evaluate the safety, efficacy and immunogenicity of a combination vaccination regimen containing the leading pre- erythrocytic <em>P. falciparum</em> malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01B and the liver stage, viral vector heterologous prime-boost regimen of ChAd63 ME-TRAP and MVA ME-TRAP. …”

Predictability of exchange rates with taylor rule fundamentals : evidence from inflation-targeting emerging countries by Alba, Joseph Dennis, Park, Donghyun, Xie, Taojun

“…We investigate the out-of-sample predictability of U.S. dollar exchange rates with Taylor rule fundamentals in thirteen emerging countries with inflation-targeting monetary policy regimes. We find some evidence of out-of-sample exchange rate predictability for Brazil, Czech Republic, Hungary, Philippines, Thailand, and South Africa. …”
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Flow and deformation due to periodic loading in a soft porous material by Fiori, M, Pramanik, S, Macminn, CW

“…We identify two distinct mechanical regimes, distinguished by whether the loading period is slow or fast relative to the characteristic poroelastic timescale. …”

Entangled exclusions: borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India by Das, P, Mittal, G, Sarma, J

“…An epicentre of ethnicity-based identity politics and exclusions, India's northeastern region has long been politically imagined as both a ‘frontier’ and ‘borderland’ for state control, territorialization, extractive economies and (re)developments by colonial and subsequent post-colonial regimes. In post-independence India, the region experienced many territorial assertions made on ethnic grounds. …”

Classification of fixed points of Potts-Bethe mapping of degree four on Q5 by Ahmad, Mohd. Ali Khameini, Murat Alp, Murat Alp, Mohd. Azahari, Mohammad Azim, Embong, Ahmad Fadillah

“…In this paper, the Potts–Bethe mapping of degree four is con-sidered over the field Q5 of 5-adic numbers. In some regimes (a condition appear in the study of p-adic Potts model), the fixed points are found and their stability are determined. …”
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Shi'ism, politics, and identity in Bahrain by Tan, Feng Qin

“…A 'naive' view of identity sees it as straightforwardly and deterministically causative, but if so the 2011 Pearl Uprising in Bahrain appears a paradox - a primarily secular episode of political contestation in a country with a Shi'a majority, against a Sunni dominated regime, in a political realm with a Shi'a Islamist-dominated opposition. …”
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Optimization of transition maneuvers through aerodynamic vectoring by Maqsood, Adnan., Go, Tiauw Hiong.

“…The aerodynamics of the aircraft in pre- and post-stall regimes are obtained through wind-tunnel tests. The unsteady aerodynamic effects are incorporated in aerodynamic model to cater for rapid changes in the aircraft motion, which is modeled as three degree of freedom longitudinal dynamics. …”
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Mean-field approximation for networks with synchrony-driven adaptive coupling by Fennelly, N, Neff, A, Lambiotte, R, Keane, A, Byrne, A

“…We derive a mean-field approximation and assess its accuracy by comparing it to θ-neuron simulations across various stability regimes. The synchrony of the system is quantified using the Kuramoto order parameter. …”

Disciplining the state: virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China by Thornton, P

“…Thornton offers a historical reading of the state-making process as a contest between central and local regimes of bureaucratic and discursive practice.…”