Why the rule of law? A historical perspective by Pirie, F

“…Around the world, systems of accountability are weak and dictators find ways to avoid the constraints of both national and international laws. Yet we continue to call for better laws and for aggressors to be tried for war crimes. …”

Organizing and strategizing in and for extreme contexts: temporality, emotions, and embodiment by Hällgren, M, Geiger, D, Rouleau, L, Sutcliffe, KM, Vaara, E

“…The introduction concludes with a call for future studies to deepen engagement with materiality, relational dynamics, and methodological innovations, reinforcing the relevance of this field to broader management and organization studies.…”

Distributed classification with variable distributions by Quach, Vinh Thanh

“…The promise of distributed classification is to improve the classification accuracy of a learning agent (called party) on its respective local data, using the knowledge of other parties in the distributed network. …”
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The strategy of coercive isolation U.S. security policy by Timonthy W. Crawford

“…From this discussion we also draw several conclusions about the conditions that favour the success of coercive isolation strategies. …”
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Beyond national identity : Kuo Pao Kun’s contemporary theatre and an open culture by Wee, C. J. Wan-Ling

“…This article argues that the artistic-cultural work of the late Kuo Pao Kun (1939–2002) from the mid-1990s commenced on what tentatively can be called an extraterritorial theatre practice that engaged with the modern state’s capacity to make national identity singular in the interests of political, military and economic goals, and in which cultural formation and identity must exceed the nation-state’s purview. …”
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The religious life of viking armies by Abrams, L

“…This paper focuses on the mobile and predatory groups of the ninth and early tenth centuries that contemporary sources called ‘armies’. To what extent did they try to recreate the religious beliefs and practice of the Scandinavian homelands? …”

Buying influence? The international diplomacy behind donor financing of the World Bank’s International Development Association by Xu, J

“…The first is why the hegemon maintained its burden shares regardless of rise or fall in economic status; I call this <em>‘Hegemonic Lag’</em>. The second is why ascending powers were slow to assume greater burden-shares despite economic ascents; I call this <em>‘Challenger Inertia.’…”

Home sweet homo : transnational connections in a Singaporean queer activist movement by Phua, Theng Hui

“…When the Indian Supreme Court made the landmark decision in 2018 to decriminalize consensual, homosexual acts, queer activists in Singapore sought to achieve the same by calling for the repeal of Section 377A of the penal code. …”
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Beyond symbolism: the roles of action planning and case-making in immigrant integration policymaking by Allen, WL, Broadhead, J

“…In response, we examine how municipal actors in 12 cities and regions across the UK have devised and communicated policies on immigrant integration—an area that lacks national policy inputs yet is locally consequential—through the mechanism of “action planning.” Drawing on 6 years’ worth of documentary evidence generated through a university-initiated collaboration with these municipalities, we show how action plans gather attention for objectives and propagate examples of practice to other cities—what we call “case-making.” …”

‘I don’t care who joins my choir’: investigating attitudes to diversity and inclusivity in lower- and upper-voice choirs in the United Kingdom by MacGregor, E

“…We conclude by making initial recommendations for how choirs might recognise and address such challenges, and call for a shift in the research agenda to pay greater attention to exclusionary factors in amateur and community music participation…”

Magnetohydrodynamics CU˗TiO2 hybrid nanofluid with viscous dissipation by Rahimah, Jusoh, Zulkhibri, Ismail, Muhammad Khairul Anuar, Mohamed, Nooraini, Zainuddin

“…The manufacturing of glass fibre, aerodynamic plastic sheet extrusion, metal spinning, condensation of metallic plates, wire drawing, and hot rolling are a few examples of these uses. …”
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Poisson vector graphics (PVG) by Hou, Fei, Sun, Qian, Fang, Zheng, Liu, Yong-Jin, Hu, Shi-Min, Qin, Hong, Hao, Aimin, He, Ying

“…Armed with two new types of primitives, called Poisson curves and Poisson regions, PVG can easily produce photorealistic effects such as specular highlights, core shadows, translucency and halos. …”
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Assessing surface seals of soils on slopes by Liu, Chenying

“…This phenomenon is attributed to the formation of a thin dense layer called surface seal on the surface soil. The surface seal is created by interaction forces between water and soil particles such as compaction, attachment, dispersion and so on. …”
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Gender systems in the Putin autocracy by Wood, Elizabeth A.

“…And have there been earlier signals that should have warned observers that this regime might undertake such a war of aggression? Drawing on public, mass media data, this article analyzes the gendered structures of power in Russia that have contributed to the degeneration of democracy in three main areas: (1) male-on-male domination in discourse and practice that supports Putin’s personal rule and emasculates his enemies; (2) the elevation of male power clans, including the President’s personal praetorian guard and the Russian private military companies; and (3) the overall taming and emasculation of the Russian Parliament combined with the elevation of tough women deputies, whom I call the Baba Commissars. …”
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Analysing the effects of individual characteristics and self-efficacy on users' preferences for system features in relevance judgment by Sin, Sei-Ching Joanna, Theng, Yin-Leng

“…Method. Drawing from Kuhlthau's information search process and Norman's task completion model, an integrated model conceptualising information seeking on two levels (process and sub-task) were developed. …”
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Puzzling over Phula: toward the synthesis and statement of a sub-branch by Pelkey, Jamin R.

“…While only a summary introduction to (as opposed to a conclusive definition ot) what remains a largely unresearched array of language varieties. this article can be a substantial foundation for future definitions and research on the languages called Phula.…”
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Understanding micro costing a genomics-based diagnostic in a resource-limited setting: experiences and challenges from a Burkitt lymphoma study in sub-Saharan Africa by Ruhago, GM, Tungu, M, Morrell, L

“…This initiative is the Aggressive Infection-Related East Africa Lymphoma (AIREAL) study, which is validating a genomic sequencing of circulating tumour deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) isolated from a simple blood draw called “liquid biopsy” for diagnosis in children with suspected Burkitt lymphoma in Uganda and Tanzania. …”

Press ECCS to Doubt (Your Causal Graph) by Markakis, Markos, Zhang, Ziyu, Shahout, Rana, Gao, Trinity, Liu, Chunwei, Sabek, Ibrahim, Cafarella, Michael

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"Come to us first": Centering Community Organizations in Artificial Intelligence for Social Good Partnerships by Lin, Hongjin, Karusala, Naveena, Okolo, Chinasa, D'Ignazio, Catherine, Gajos, Krzysztof

“…To enhance the efficacy of future collaborations, our participants shared their aspirations for success, calling for co-leadership starting from the early stages of projects. …”
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Dissonances in care: childhood, well-being, and the politics of welfare in Japan by Chapman, CR

“…I used visual and material methods as a modular platform for participation, an approach I call narrative storywork. Through photography and drawing, among other mediums, children narrated poignant stories about their care experiences.…”