A BIT does go a long way: the positive effect of bilateral investment treaties on China's foreign direct investment inflows by Liow, Karyn Sze Min

“…Such heterogeneous treatment effects suggest that China’s BIT policy in the 1980s was a strategic one – it selectively concluded BITs with the most promising economic partners in the early period of its BIT regime. It then gradually broadened the BIT network to more partner countries as its diplomatic relations expanded over time.…”
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Why has Singapore not achieved a full democratic transition, despite economic growth? A comparative case study of Singapore and Taiwan by Nur Shahira Binte Shahromey

“…However, Singapore, which has Southeast Asia’s highest GDP per capita, has not achieved a full democratic transition and is considered a hybrid regime. Many scholars have labelled Singapore’s political system “competitive authoritarian” or an “illiberal democracy”. …”
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The Eoan Group and the politics of coloured opera in apartheid South Africa by Pistorius, JM

“…In return, they agreed to honour the regime’s racial laws by performing for segregated audiences. …”

Fragmented and fitful: India’s energy diplomacy by Chaudhuri, PP

“…This has not been an easy process and the recently elected Narendra Modi government is just the latest regime to announce ambitious plans for reform. There are numerous reasons for this having proved to be such an onerous task: natural resources are treated as government assets, energy regulation is divided between the federal and state governments, and the domination of inefficient state-owned enterprises has resulted in a sector shot through with corruption and political interests. …”

Replacement of Artemia with Moina micrura in the rearing of freshwater shrimp larvae by Alam, M.J., Ang, K.J., Begum, M.

“…The control treatment consisted of feeding Artemia throughout the rearing period (regime A), while in the other treatments the onset of Moina feeding was arbitrarily chosen at larval stages iv (A3M), vi (A5M), viii (A7M) and x (A9M). …”
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Social movements and democratization in Malaysia by Khoo, Ying Hooi

“…This thesis sheds light on the relationship between the social movement activity and democratic openness in an electoral authoritarian regime. At the same time a good base for protest movement analyses in the country, which has become a norm.…”
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Enhancing production performance using sustainable lean supply chain: A case study in an Indonesian shoes manufacturer by Putra, Raditya Abyudaya, Emelia Sari, ., Moengin, Parwadi, Satria, Ridha, Maulidya, Rahmi, Mohd Yazid, Abu

“…The SVSM results are further analyzed using Process Activity Mapping tools to categorize activities into non value added, necessary non value added, and value added segments. The Sustainability Index (SI) is then calculated, incorporating economic, social, and environmental indicators. …”
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Crossing and intersecting families of geometric graphs on point sets by Álvarez-Rebollar, J. L., Cravioto-Lagos, J., Marín, N., Solé-Pi, O., Urrutia, J.

“…Let S be a set of n points in the plane in general position. Two line segments connecting pairs of points of S cross if they have an interior point in common. …”
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Simultaneous binding of hybrid molecules constructed with dual DNA-binding components to a G-quadruplex and its proximal duplex by Asamitsu, Sefan, Obata, Shunsuke, Phan, Anh Tuân, Hashiya, Kaori, Bando, Toshikazu, Sugiyama, Hiroshi

“…By means of circular dichroism (CD), fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), surface plasmon resonance (SPR), and NMR techniques, we showed the dual and simultaneous recognition of the respective segment via hybrid molecules, and the synergistic and mutual effect of each binding component that was appropriately linked on higher binding affinity and modest sequence specificity. …”
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Controllable broadband multicolour single-mode polarized laser in a dye-assembled homoepitaxial MOF microcrystal by He, Huajun, Cui, Yuanjing, Li, Hongjun, Shao, Kai, Chen, Banglin, Qian, Guodong

“…Here, we demonstrate a single crystal with multiple segments based on the host-guest metal-organic framework ZJU-68 hierarchically hybridized with different dye molecules generating controllable single-mode green, red, and near-infrared lasing, with the lasing mode mechanism revealed by computational simulation. …”
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Bayesian dynamic programming approach for tracking time-varying model properties in SHM by Yang, Yanping, Zhu, Zuo, Au, Siu-Kui

“…Conventional approaches empirically divide data into non-overlapping segments with equal lengths and identify the model parameters within each segment based on a time-invariant model. …”
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Super-resolution imaging of photogenerated charges on CdS/g-C₃N₄ heterojunctions and its correlation with photoactivity by Wu, Shuyang, Lee, Jinn-Kye, Lim, Pei Chong, Xu, Rong, Zhang, Zhengyang

“…The photoactive species (i.e., e- and h+) were found to be preferentially distributed at the two end segments of CdS nanorods and the edge boundaries of g-C3N4. …”
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An investigation on correlation between linguistic features and personality traits : a case of Singapore Twitter users. by Yew, Chee Soon.

“…Breaking down these corpuses into segments of 1,000 words, the usage of linguistic features by each subject was calculated. …”
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A length-adjustable vacuum-powered artificial muscle for wearable physiotherapy assistance in infants by Gollob, Samuel Dutra, Mendoza, Mijaíl Jaén, Koo, Bon Ho Brandon, Centeno, Esteban, Vela, Emir A., Roche, Ellen T.

“…This is crucial in applications such as infant physical therapy where the device must adapt to the growth of the patient during a 6-month treatment regime without actuator replacement. The ability to adjust the length of the VPAM on demand offers a significant advantage over traditional fixed-length actuators, making it a promising solution for soft robotics. …”
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On the Fourier Coefficients of High-Dimensional Random Geometric Graphs by Bangachev, Kiril, Bresler, Guy

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Complexity of High-Dimensional Identity Testing with Coordinate Conditional Sampling by Blanca, Antonio, Chen, Zongchen, Stefankovic, Daniel, Vigoda, Eric

“…We also prove a computational phase transition: for a well-studied class of -dimensional distributions, specifically sparse antiferromagnetic Ising models over {+1, −1} , we show that in the regime where approximate tensorization of entropy fails, there is no efficient identity testing algorithm unless RP = NP. …”
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Inferring electrospray emission characteristics from molecular dynamics and simulated retarding potential analysis by Schroeder, Madeleine, Gallud, Ximo, Petro, Elaine, Jia-Richards, Oliver, Lozano, Paulo C

“…In this work, we present coordinated molecular dynamics, ion cluster acceleration, and retarding potential analysis simulations to determine cluster fragmentation behavior in a realistic emitter geometry for electrosprays operating in the pure ionic regime. Molecular dynamics simulations are used to determine the fragmentation rates of ionic liquid clusters as a function of internal energy, electric field strength, and cluster size. …”
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Point defect–dislocation interactions in BEOL-compatible Ge-on-Si epitaxy by Postelnicu, Eveline, Wen, Rui-Tao, Ma, Danhao, Wang, Baoming, Wada, Kazumi, Michel, Jurgen, Kimerling, Lionel C

“…We also observe that 90° sessile dislocations identified via transmission electron microscopy are annihilated in the same temperature regime, which is evidence for point defect-mediated climb. …”
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Hyperbolic String Field Theory by Firat, Atakan Hilmi

“…The validity of our results in this regime is further confirmed by developing a topology-independent machine learning algorithm characterizing Strebel differentials. …”
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Effective dynamics of cold atoms flowing in two ring-shaped optical potentials with tunable tunneling by Aghamalyan, Davit, Amico, Luigi, Kwek, L. C.

“…It is demonstrated that the imaginary time effective action of the system in a weak coupling regime provides a two-level-system dynamics for the phase slip across the two rings. …”
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