Ethnic violence in China: time for a change in Beijing's approach? by Rohan Gunaratna

“…The recent outbreak of rioting in China’s Xingjiang province has exposed the long-simmering tension in the Muslim-majority region engendered by Beijing’s policy of integration and assimilation. …”
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Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia: Need for Policy Rethink by Chan, Xin Ying

“…With the United States closing its doors on refugees, the Malaysian authorities should prepare long term strategies to accommodate over 200,000 Rohingya within its borders who lack rights and legal protection.…”
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China’s Rise: Role of Two Defining Generations by Han, Fook Kwang

“…The Long March generation of revolutionary leaders is widely acknowledged as the founding heroes of modern China. …”
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Indonesia-Malaysia relations : baggage of ‘blood brotherhood' by Liow, Joseph Chin Yong

“…Notwithstanding the long history of ethno-cultural fraternity between the peoples of Indonesia and Malaysia, the relationship between the two countries has been marked by a pattern of friction and discord since the precolonial era. …”
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From UN to unilateral sanctions on Iran : political implications for China by Yoram Evron

“…As long as international efforts against Iran were directed by the UN Security Council, China could use its permanent membership to foster its interests in Iran and still play by the rules. …”
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Decoding Indonesia’s radical Islamists : what to de-radicalise? by Bilveer Singh

“…Even though Indonesia has a long history of Islamist radicalisation, the counter-terrorism measures since the first Bali bombings in October 2002 have not completely averted the threat. …”
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The issue of Arab Jews : manipulating a justified cause by Dorsey, James M.

“…A recent United Nations conference on the rights of Jews forced to flee Arab countries in the wake of the establishment of the State of Israel focuses attention on a long overlooked consequence of the Middle East conflict. …”
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Temporal intentionality: prompting time-related deliberations in strategic action by Välikangas, L, Vaara, E, Peixoto, I

“…Time has long been of interest to strategy scholars. Speed may be a source of competitive advantage, strategic planning structures action across time, and temporal norms open and close opportunities. …”

Analysis and design of curved steel beam member in elevation using Eurocode 3 by Yandarmadi, Kelvin

“…Curved structure existed for a long time. Its versatile characteristics make curved structures are utilized in various areas, from equipment up to large span structure such as airport terminal and bridge. …”
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Operations and Supply Management 4.0 : Industry Insights, Case Studies and Best Practices / by Helmold, Marc, author 645775, Terry, Brian, author 206444

“…It explains comprehensively, how these new paradigms enable companies to concentrate on value-adding activities and processes to achieve a long-term sustainable and competitive advantage. …”

Love and Other Words / by Lauren, Christina, author 593883, Little, Brown Book Group (Online service) 655987

“…Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.…”
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Holt (Online service) 655998

“…Sapolsky focuses on the effects of glucocorticoids on the human body, arguing that such hormones may be useful to animals in the wild escaping their predators, (see Fight-or-flight response) but the effects on humans, when secreted at high quantities or over long periods of time, are much less desirable. Sapolsky relates the history of endocrinology, how the field reacted at times of discovery, and how it has changed through the years. …”
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Management, Technology, and Economic Growth in Smart and Sustainable Cities / by Ruiz-Vanoye, Jorge A., 1975-, editor 656366, IGI Global Scientific Publishing (Online service) 655412

“…The lack of comprehensive guidance and practical strategies hinders the establishment of smart and sustainable cities, putting long-term urban sustainability and the well-being of present and future generations at risk. …”
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Competitiveness Strategies for Negative Organizations : Challenging the Status Quo / by Graça, Beatriz, author 655479, Oliveira, Manuel Au-Yong, author 655480, SpringerLink (Online service) 666

“…Namely, certain employees who are actually very good may be forced to leave so as to not disturb the status quo and existing loyalties and ties which are actually prejudicial to the company, in the medium to long run. Change is very necessary and strategies need to change to accompany technological breakthroughs and other market developments. …”
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Enhancing driver fatigue detection accuracy in on-road driving systems using an LSTM-DNN hybrid model with modified Z-Score and morlet wavelet by Rafiuddin, Abdubrani, Mahfuzah, Mustafa, Zarith Liyana, Zahari

“…Three deep learning models, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Deep Neural Network (DNN), and LSTM-DNN, are employed to classify the data. …”
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Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: Current Stroke Prevention Strategies and a Shift Toward Data-Driven, Patient-Specific Approaches by Mendez, Keegan, Kennedy, Darragh G., Wang, Dee Dee, O’Neill, Brian, Roche, Ellen T.

“…Oral anticoagulation therapies are the mainstay of stroke prevention options for patients; however, not all patients are candidates for long-term oral anticoagulation. Percutaneous occlusion devices are an attractive alternative to long-term anticoagulation therapy, although they are not without limitations, such as peri-implant leakage and device-related thrombosis. …”
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Microneedle‐mediated Delivery of Immunomodulators Restores Immune Privilege in Hair Follicles and Reverses Immune‐Mediated Alopecia by Younis, Nour, Puigmal, Núria, Kurdi, Abdallah El, Badaoui, Andrew, Zhang, Dongliang, Morales, Claudia, Saad, Anis, Cruz, Diane, Rahy, Nadim Al, Daccache, Andrea, Huerta, Triana, Deban, Christa, Halawi, Ahmad, Choi, John, Dosta, Pere, Lian, Christine, Artzi, Natalie, Azzi, Jamil R.

“…While systemic immunosuppression is the prevailing approach to manage them, it fails to achieve long‐lasting remission due to concomitant suppression of the regulatory arm and carries the risk of heightened susceptibility to infections and malignancies. …”
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Bursting on a vortex tube with initial axial core-size perturbations by Ji, Lingbo, Van Rees, Wim M.

“…Varying the initial core-size ratio A shows that the propagation speed of the twist waves varies linearly with A and approaches linear stability results of the long-wave limit of Kelvin waves on rectilinear vortex tubes as A → 1 . …”
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The Temperature Dependence of Hydrogen Bonds Is More Uniform in Stable Proteins: An Analysis of NMR h3JNC′ Couplings in Four Different Protein Structures by Alexandrescu, Andrei T., Dregni, Aurelio J.

“…Long-range HNCO NMR spectra for proteins show crosspeaks due to 1JNC′, 2JNC′, 3JNCγ, and h3JNC′ couplings. …”
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From Waste to Structure: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Circular Design by Sørensen, Karl-Johan I.

“…Computational optimization has been implemented to automate the process, but state-of-the-art algorithms still require manually pre-defining a parametric target design-space or take too long to compute when applied to larger problems. …”
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