Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 98

“…The problem is that lower oil revenues also affect industry, forcing operators to review their investment portfolios to focus on the best regimes and geological prospects.</p> <p>The region’s recent positive developments are taking place against a background where a large number of countries in the region (including Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guyana, and Suriname) have fallen out of favour with oil and gas investors, in some cases for a number of years. …”

Hobbes and the tragedy of democracy by Holman, Christopher

“…For Hobbes these two conditions combine to render democracy a tragic regime. Democracy is tragic to the extent that it must be a regime of self-limitation, there existing no ethical standard external to society that may intervene so as to guide our political self-activity, and yet the structure of deliberation in democratic assemblies tends to render such self-limitation impossible. …”
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From ideological to political sectarianism: Nahdlatul Ulama, Muhammadiyah, and the state in Indonesia by Arifianto, Alexander R.

“…In response, the regime aligns itself with the NU, which utilises sectarian rhetoric to discredit these groups. …”
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Characterisation of novel electroactive consortia from environmental samples enriched through potentiostatic growth by Doyle, Lucinda Elizabeth

“…Comparison revealed the enriched community from canal sediment was superior to that from the mangrove sediment in terms of electrogenic activity when evaluated by chronoamperometry, and was chosen for further characterisation. …”
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WTO membership and its critical importance to China. by Wong, Chak Mun.

“…For the political regime in China, WTO membership is crucial to the realisation of its vision for 21st Century China. …”
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Gelation, clustering, and crowding in the electrical double layer of ionic liquids by Goodwin, Zachary AH, McEldrew, Michael, Pedro de Souza, J, Bazant, Martin Z, Kornyshev, Alexei A

“…With increasing charge of the electrode, the theory predicts a transition from a regime dominated by a gelled or clustered state to a crowding regime dominated by free ions. …”
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Tunable metasurfaces for active nanophotonics by Omar Abdelrahman Mohamed Abdelraouf

“…In addition, we experimentally showed tunable light sources based on the amplified spontaneous emission concept in visible and near-infrared regimes by designing two different tunable metasurfaces that support the bound states in the continuum resonance. …”
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Carbon nanomaterial/thermoplastic polyurethane composites for sports application : preparation, characterization and simulation by Jing, Qifei

“…The finite-element analysis provided quantification of the effect of GO enhancement on the large-deflection bending performance of PU for regimes typical for shoe soles and can be used as a basis for optimization of real composite products.…”
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Wear behaviour of NiTi shape memory alloys by Yan, Lina

“…Furthermore, the wear behaviour of the forged ingot Ni 48.2at% Ti SMA was studied in three temperature regimes where different phases were present, that is, fully martensitic phase when T < Mf, fully austenitic phase when Mf < T < Af, and martensitic phase coexisted with austenitic phase when T > Af. …”
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Non-equilibrium fluctuations for a spatial logistic branching process with weak competition by Tendron, T

“…We consider the weak competition regime where <em>c</em> tends to zero, corresponding to a local carrying capacity tending to infinity like 1/<em>c</em> as <em>c</em> vanishes.…”

A study on dense plasmas using molecular dynamics and X-ray scattering techniques by Mabey, P

“…The results are compared to recent experimental data, suggesting electron-ion dynamical effects could play a crucial role in the dynamic properties of matter in the WDM regime.</p>…”

Better understanding of the social services sector in Singapore. by Loh, Candice Jiahui., Phoon, Sharon Yien Mei., Thung, Sim Yee.

“…Make recommendations to improve current regulatory regime.…”
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Effects of resonant tunneling and dynamics of coherent interaction on intrinsic linewidth of quantum cascade lasers by Liu, Tao, Lee, Kenneth E., Wang, Qi Jie

“…Results show that the coupling strength and the dephasing rate associated with resonant tunneling strongly affect the linewidth of THz QCLs in the incoherent resonant-tunneling transport regime but only induce little influence in the coherent regime. …”
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Can the war on Iraq bring democracy to the Middle East? by Bouchaib Silm.

“…The war on Iraq was based on insufficient documents that failed to provide legitimization to the war, and also sought to criminalize Saddam's regime. As a result, the idea of a democratic Middle East is facing criticism. …”
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Next generation design of floating systems for coastal solar farms by Bi, Cheng

“…In the single-barrier-platform system, the barrier is installed in front of the platform, and significant reduction in platform displacement can be achieved when the barrier is in the membrane-like hydroelastic regime with relatively high rigidity and has a penetration more than 40% of water depth. …”
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Organic ferroelectric memory devices based on resistive switching by Damar Yoga Kusuma

“…This approach accelerates the switching kinetics as polarization reversal shifts from the nucleation-limited regime to the growth-limited regime. On the other hand, mutual combination of SAM’s fixed dipole and ferroelectric’s polarizable dipole is employed to realize ferroelectric field effect transistor devices with tailored operational parameters, reduced charge trapping and improved retention stability. …”
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Sequential phreatomagmatic eruptions during the lateral propagation of giant dyke swarms by Pryce, E, Cartwright, J, Kirkham, C, Phillips, D

“…Craters are flanked by a tephra apron comprising reworked chalky sediments. The well data allow us to exclude crater forming mechanisms based on collapse into a void, but are consistent with those linked to phreatomagmatic eruption. …”

An investigation on the mechanism of droplet formation in a microfluidic T-junction by Sivasamy Jayaprakash, Wong, Teck Neng, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Kao, Linus Tzu-Hsiang

“…From the computational results, we show that the pressure profile of the dispersed phase and the continuous phase in the squeezing regime changes as the droplet break-up process proceeds. …”
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Multiple scattering of light in cold atomic clouds in a magnetic field by Sigwarth, Olivier, Labeyrie, Guillaume, Delande, Dominique, Miniatura, Christian

“…We then consider the multiple-scattering regime and address the fate of the coherent-backscattering (CBS) effect. …”
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Relationship between capital, reserve requirements, & performance of commercial banks : international evidence in the nineties. by Lim, Irene Chwee Leng., Siow, Ming Leng., Toh, Chew Hong.

“…This paper discuss how the level of capital, reserve requirements have affected profitability of commercial abnks in the second half of the nineties when the banks have largely settled into the regime of BIS capital adequacy requirements.…”
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