The struggle for Syria : Iran-Qatar ties come under stress by James M. Dorsey

“…The struggle by Syrian opposition forces to topple the Assad regime is sharpening tensions between Iran and Qatar and threatens sectarian fault lines elsewhere in North Africa and Middle East. …”
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Rethinking territorial disputes in the South China Sea : transforming problem into opportunity by Dato’ Muthiah Alagappa

“…Yet, they present an opportunity to construct a rules-based order grounded in principles and guided by an effective management regime and dispute settlement mechanism.…”
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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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The perils of a dual mandate by Cantore, C, Dhamija, V

“…Our findings indicate that under an inflation-targeting regime, price level determinacy is often the exception than the norm when the central bank pursues a dual mandate. …”

Anti-suit injunctions – beyond comity by Dickinson, A

“…It examines, in particular, recent case law extending the reach of the European Union’s prohibition on anti-suit injunctions within the Brussels I regime, and the place of anti-suit injunctions within the framework of the Hague Choice of Court Convention.…”

Ending the Syrian conflict : foreign intervention or renewed political process? by Zulkifli Mohamed Sultan

“…The massacre of more than 100 people in the west-central town of Houla last month brought condemnation of the brutal regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by the U.N. …”
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Report on industrial attachment with KBR by Poo, Sue Xin.

“…In a report of this volume, it is not possible for the author to cover in detail the entire training regime undergone by her. Rather, she chooses to present what she considers to be the most important of the most interesting or simply the most beneficial aspects of the programme. …”
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The monetary policy of Hong Kong. by Chin Jee Kin, Tan Yen-Ling, Toh Shih Hua

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The nostalgia industry : producing longing and belonging in Singapore by Lim, Jialiang

“…Results have shown that there is a new regime of authenticity beyond that of the State that these cultural producers subscribe to, leading to the expansion of the cultural politics of Nostalgia and influencing discussions of identity and belonging.…”
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Russian Turkestan and the First World War by Morrison, A

“…This was particularly true of its most colonial periphery, the Governor-Generalship of Turkestan, which saw the first major rebellion against the Tsarist regime in the summer of 1916. This article explores the direct links between Turkestan and the front, the conscription of soldiers and labourers from the region and its hosting of tens of thousands of Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war. …”

Consumer privacy in a behavioral world by Cofone, IC, Robertson, AZ

“…We then suggest private law and regulatory solutions to do so in a more effective way than either the current or the now-repealed regime.…”

One-shot yield-cost relations in general quantum resource theories by Takagi, Ryuji, Regula, Bartosz, Wilde, Mark M.

“…Although it is well known that the amount of resources that can be asymptotically distilled from a quantum state or channel does not exceed the resource cost needed to produce it, the corresponding relation in the non-asymptotic regime hitherto has not been well understood. Here, we establish a quantitative relation between the one-shot distillable resource yield and dilution cost in terms of transformation errors involved in these processes. …”
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Narrow bandgap oxide nanoparticles coupled with graphene for high performance mid-infrared photodetection by Hu, Xiaonan, Zhang, Daliang, Tao, Ye, Yu, Xuechao, Li, Yangyang, Liu, Zhixiong, He, Yongmin, Md. Azimul Haque, Liu, Zheng, Wu, Tom, Wang, Qi Jie

“…The pursuit of optoelectronic devices operating in the mid-infrared regime is driven by both fundamental interests and envisioned applications ranging from imaging, sensing to communications. …”
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India's foreign policy on Myanmar/Burma : an analysis from 1988 - 2007. by Heena, Patel.

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Demand for energy & energy market integration in Asean by Chua, Jing Yi, Lee, Justin Cheng Han

“…Our results shows three main findings in a 50% open power trade regime amongst ASEAN nations. First, introducing locational marginal pricing of transmission losses in an open trade scenario reduces trade for developed ASEAN countries. …”
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A model of information security and competition by de Cornière, A, Taylor, G

“…Regarding policy, the structure of the optimal liability regime also depends on firms’ business model.…”

Association of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors with adverse perinatal outcomes in pregnant women living with HIV: systematic review and meta-analysis by Cowdell, I, Beck, K, Hey, M, Portwood, C, Sexton, H, Kumarendran, M, Brandon, Z, Kirtley, S, Hemelaar, J

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Interventions:</strong> ART regimes containing different NRTI drugs.</p> <br> <p><strong>Assessment of risk of bias:</strong> Newcastle-Ottawa Scale and GRADE.…”

Closed-loop, variable-valve-timing control of a controlled-auto-ignition engine by Matthews, Jeffrey A., 1970-

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On shear adhesion of adhesive fibrils by Linghu, Changhong, Du, Zihao, Sun, Yi, Chen, Weiqiu, Hsia, K. Jimmy

“…Based on this compliance solution, a rigorous scaling law for shear adhesion strength is derived, which can predict the energy-controlled adhesion regime as well as the theoretical strength-limited regime, as the aspect ratio decreases. …”
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Deadweight costs and optimal capital structure. by Liang, Huijun., Lim, Wei Ling.

“…Banerjee and Noe (2010) shows that MNCs do not necessarily obtain all of their financing in locations that feature the most creditor friendly legal regime. In this paper, our model is consistent with those empirical findings. …”
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