Why has Singapore not achieved a full democratic transition, despite economic growth? A comparative case study of Singapore and Taiwan by Nur Shahira Binte Shahromey

“…However, Singapore, which has Southeast Asia’s highest GDP per capita, has not achieved a full democratic transition and is considered a hybrid regime. Many scholars have labelled Singapore’s political system “competitive authoritarian” or an “illiberal democracy”. …”
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Fragmented and fitful: India’s energy diplomacy by Chaudhuri, PP

“…This has not been an easy process and the recently elected Narendra Modi government is just the latest regime to announce ambitious plans for reform. There are numerous reasons for this having proved to be such an onerous task: natural resources are treated as government assets, energy regulation is divided between the federal and state governments, and the domination of inefficient state-owned enterprises has resulted in a sector shot through with corruption and political interests. …”

Social movements and democratization in Malaysia by Khoo, Ying Hooi

“…This thesis sheds light on the relationship between the social movement activity and democratic openness in an electoral authoritarian regime. At the same time a good base for protest movement analyses in the country, which has become a norm.…”
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A length-adjustable vacuum-powered artificial muscle for wearable physiotherapy assistance in infants by Gollob, Samuel Dutra, Mendoza, Mijaíl Jaén, Koo, Bon Ho Brandon, Centeno, Esteban, Vela, Emir A., Roche, Ellen T.

“…This is crucial in applications such as infant physical therapy where the device must adapt to the growth of the patient during a 6-month treatment regime without actuator replacement. The ability to adjust the length of the VPAM on demand offers a significant advantage over traditional fixed-length actuators, making it a promising solution for soft robotics. …”
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Inferring electrospray emission characteristics from molecular dynamics and simulated retarding potential analysis by Schroeder, Madeleine, Gallud, Ximo, Petro, Elaine, Jia-Richards, Oliver, Lozano, Paulo C

“…In this work, we present coordinated molecular dynamics, ion cluster acceleration, and retarding potential analysis simulations to determine cluster fragmentation behavior in a realistic emitter geometry for electrosprays operating in the pure ionic regime. Molecular dynamics simulations are used to determine the fragmentation rates of ionic liquid clusters as a function of internal energy, electric field strength, and cluster size. …”
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Point defect–dislocation interactions in BEOL-compatible Ge-on-Si epitaxy by Postelnicu, Eveline, Wen, Rui-Tao, Ma, Danhao, Wang, Baoming, Wada, Kazumi, Michel, Jurgen, Kimerling, Lionel C

“…We also observe that 90° sessile dislocations identified via transmission electron microscopy are annihilated in the same temperature regime, which is evidence for point defect-mediated climb. …”
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Broad-band polarization-insensitive all-dielectric metalens enabled by intentional off-resonance waveguiding at mid-wave infrared by Tanriover, Ibrahim, Demir, Hilmi Volkan

“…Here, we propose and show high-index dielectric nanopillars operated as cylindrical waveguides deliberately in the off-resonance regime to achieve polarization independent wavefront control over wide spectral bands. …”
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Formation of particle clouds by Zhao, B., Law, Adrian Wing-Keung, Adams, E. Eric, Er, J. W.

“…The formation processes are categorized into cloud formation, a transitional regime and clump formation, and their distinct features are presented through qualitative description of the flow patterns and quantitative assessment of the gross characteristics.…”
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Exciton polariton interactions in Van der Waals superlattices at room temperature by Zhao, Jiaxin, Fieramosca, Antonio, Dini, Kevin, Bao, Ruiqi, Du, Wei, Su, Rui, Luo, Yuan, Zhao, Weijie, Sanvitto, Daniele, Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Xiong, Qihua

“…The integration of TMD heterostructures in planar microcavities working in strong coupling regime is particularly important to control the light-matter interactions and form robust polaritons, highly sought for room temperature applications. …”
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Towards compressed sensing for ground-to-air monostatic radar by Dauwels, Justin, Kannan, Srinivasan

“…The performance of CS radar particularly degrade significantly with noise and hence the primary concern is to determine the regime where the operation of CS radar is satisfactory. …”
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The structural, mechanical, and biological variation of silica bioglasses obtained by different sintering temperatures by Sarmast Sh, M., Dayang Radiah, A. B., Hoey, D. A., Abdullah, N.

“…Furthermore, superior mechanical properties and biocompatibility were achieved with this temperature regime, making it a prime candidate for bone regeneration applications. …”

On the Fourier Coefficients of High-Dimensional Random Geometric Graphs by Bangachev, Kiril, Bresler, Guy

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Complexity of High-Dimensional Identity Testing with Coordinate Conditional Sampling by Blanca, Antonio, Chen, Zongchen, Stefankovic, Daniel, Vigoda, Eric

“…We also prove a computational phase transition: for a well-studied class of -dimensional distributions, specifically sparse antiferromagnetic Ising models over {+1, −1} , we show that in the regime where approximate tensorization of entropy fails, there is no efficient identity testing algorithm unless RP = NP. …”
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Hyperbolic String Field Theory by Firat, Atakan Hilmi

“…The validity of our results in this regime is further confirmed by developing a topology-independent machine learning algorithm characterizing Strebel differentials. …”
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The contemporary age of square stepping exercise on cognitive and cohesion among older adults by Low, Kimmy Yi Ting

“…The Square Stepping Exercise (SSE) serves this purpose as it incorporates the physical and cognitive exercise regime. Based on previous studies, SSE appears to be successful in deterring older adults from cognitive deterioration. …”
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Immersion two-phase liquid cooling of data cards by Lioewanta, Sebastian Markus

“…It is postulated that the high temperatures yielded are due to high wall superheat values and a lack of microcavities to initiate the nucleate boiling regime. The addition of a heat sink during immersion cooling vastly reduced temperature levels due to the increase in surface area in contact with the liquid. …”
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Laminar flow heat transfer enhancement in multy-start spirally corrugated tubes by Zaid Sattar Kareem

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Competition law and economic inequality by Zac, A

“…However, the specific ways and mechanisms through which a competition law regime might interact with economic inequality remain largely unexplored from an empirical perspective. …”

At the frontiers between penal and psy discourses: judicial constructions of the mentally dis/ordered defendant in Hong Kong sentencing judgments by Chiu, TCU

“…While existing literature on the compulsory mental health regime in Hong Kong has found judges to defer, with little critical scrutiny, to medical professional opinion in finding mental incapacity and disorder, this thesis is the first to explore whether this judicial reliance on the clinical gaze extends to decision-making about sentencing in criminal law.…”

Human nature, after all: affective realism in Russian foreign policy by Edinger, H

“…References to security threats, for example, could be indicative of more deeply felt ontological anxieties or officials’ visceral fear over regime stability and their personal safety. Understanding affective dynamics, and the action tendencies they promote, can improve explanations of foreign policy in the Russian case and potentially others.…”