Al-Qaeda grows in Africa : new union with Al Shabaab by Rohan Gunaratna

“…By making inroads to Africa, al Qaeda will exploit Al Shabaab’s long standing links with like-minded threat groups in a fragile continent.…”
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The Palk Strait project : a transit passage regime for a canal? by Mohd Hazmi Mohd Rusli

“…An Indian government project to dig an 83 km long canal to deepen the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and the Indian sub-continent, raises the prospect of the Strait being opened to international traffic when completed. …”
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President Jokowi's 'ordinary' style : simplicity and the 'wealth of poverty'? by Farish, A Noor

“…But this simple self-presentation has a long history in Southeast Asia, where assuming an ordinary character is also a form of cultural capital that carries huge symbolic power.…”
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Monetary policy and inequality by Andersen, AL, Johannesen, N, Jørgensen, M, Peydró, J

“…We use administrative household-level data covering the entire population in Denmark over the period 1987 to 2014 and exploit a long-standing currency peg as a source of exogenous variation in monetary policy. …”

An introduction to phase ordering in scalar active matter by Meissner, L, Yeomans, JM

“…We first briefly review Model A and Model B, the long-standing continuum descriptions of ordering in systems with a non-conserved and conserved scalar order parameter. …”

Obama's energy policy: the energy plan is in reality a climate change plan by Matzke, R

“…The plan is bold, aggressive, challenging, controversial, expensive, and long overdue. Its legislative version is greater than 1000 pages and should be referred to in its original form for those seeking a better understanding than can be presented in this brief article.…”

幽禁中之丰姿，落寞中之妖冶：《唐詩名媛集》述評 = Charming in silence and coquettish in desolate : a commentary on Tangshi Mingyuan Ji by 曲景毅 Qu, Jingyi

“…Tangshi mingyuan ji 唐詩名媛集 (A compilation of Tang poems on mingyuan) is one of the volumes of Tangshi yanyi pin 唐詩艷逸品 (Exemplars of the flamboyant and the elegant in Tang poetry) edited by late Ming scholar Yang Zhaozhi 楊肇祉. …”
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Bloodbath in Christchurch : The Rise of Far-Right Terrorism by Quek, Natasha

“…Last Friday, 50 Muslims were killed when a white supremacist, Brenton Tarrant, targeted two mosques in a shooting spree in Christchurch, New Zealand. Long overshadowed by Islamist radicalism, questions are now asked about what drives the far-right ideology and, specifically, what is the role of the Internet as a driver and enabler of violent far-right extremism and terror.…”
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Development of anaerobic immobilized-cell processes for biohydrogen production by Zhang, Zhenpeng

“…A major drawback of the cell immobilization is the long startup period, which generally requires a few months for the development of hydrogen-producing granules or biofilms. …”
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SNR enhancement in OTDR using pulse coding by Xie, Yi.

“…So the high spatial resolution and long dynamic range can’t be obtained simultaneously. …”
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Allianz's success factors in the European market and their challenges faced in China. by Chin, Chee Meng., Koh, Teck Chee., Li, Heng., Saqlain Javed.

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Network resource management to transport pre-stored video across broadband networks by Fu, Huirong.

“…MPEG variable bit rate (VBR) encoded video is known to exhibit long-range dependent behavior and significant multiple-time-scale rate variability but with consistent image quality. …”
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Three-dimensional analyses of deep excavations in clay by Teo, Yi Wei.

“…The assumption for this analysis is that the length of the excavation is infinitely long. Thus, it does not take into account of the length of the excavation. …”
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A novel polymer quantum dot derived from poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) and its application for sensing and optical imaging by Xu, Qian

“…However, they suffer from several intrinsic drawbacks like rapid photo-bleaching making it difficult to carry out long-term imaging. Semiconductor quantum dots (semi-QDs) have been regarded as alternatives, but they may possess some limitations, including cytotoxicity, carcinogenicity, and too-large size. …”
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From an image to a text description of an image by Peter

“…The network consists of a convolutional neural network (CNN) that learns features found on an image, and a long short-term memory (LSTM) unit that predicts the sequence of words from learnt features of the image. …”
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Chasing the Elusive Militant in Indonesia: The Wonosobo raid to capture Noordin M Top by Astuti, Fatima

“…The police order on the inhabitants to surrender was met with gunfire. After an hour-long gunfight, the resistance ended with two suspects dead and one captured. …”
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Global norms in regional institutions : lessons from the African Union and ASEAN by Lotze, Walter, Stensland, Andreas, Ng, Joel

“…Acceptance of global norms by regional organisations is only the beginning of a long process of institutionalisation, as cases in the African Union (AU) and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) demonstrate. …”
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Global competition for upstream investment: key test for Latin America’s policymakers by Conway, T

“…In August, Mexico completed far-reaching energy reform; many in the industry had long hoped for this, but it had seemed politically unthinkable even after President Enrique Peña Nieto had submitted his proposal to the legislature a year earlier.…”

Automation and the displacement of labor by capital: asset pricing theory and empirical evidence by Knesl, J

“…Empirically, I find that firms with high share of displaceable labor have negative exposure to technology shocks. A long-short portfolio sorted on this variable mimics macroeconomic measures of technology shocks. …”

Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 97

“…The editors have endeavoured to provide commentary on the political and economic context for energy developments, while also inviting recognized specialists to comment on the host of issues – from long-term upstream oil issues to Russia’s domestic electricity market – that are sometimes neglected by big-picture analysis.…”