The Changing Power Distribution in the South China Sea: Implications for Conflict Management and Avoidance by Ralf, Emmers

“…The Paracel and Spratly Islands are at the center of competing territorial, economic and strategic interests. This paper focuses specifically on the changing distribution of power in the South China Sea and assesses its implications for conflict management and avoidance. …”
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A Review of Phosphide-Based Materials for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Xiao, Peng, Chen, Wei, Wang, Xin

“…Hydrogen evolution by means of electrocatalytic water-splitting is pivotal for efficient and economical production of hydrogen, which relies on the development of inexpensive, highly active catalysts. …”
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Fishing militia, the securitization of fishery and the South China Sea dispute by Zhang, Hongzhou, Bateman, Sam

“…Through revisiting the prevailing fishing militia narrative, this article argues that much wider economic and social factors are at work domestically in China, and that the international and regional scenes are more complex than the picture painted by purely viewing developments with China's fishing militia in isolation. …”
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“A little is better than zero” or “pay enough or don’t pay at all”? evidence on the size of pay-for-performance across the sectors by Chen, Chung-An

“…Regarding the effect of pay-for-performance (PFP), standard economic reasoning suggests that “a little is better than zero,” meaning that even small performance payments can improve employees’ work morale. …”
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Maritime Terrorism In Southeast Asia: A Risk Assessment by Raymond, Catherine Zara

“…It also finds that there are terrorist groups in the region with maritime capabilities who possess the motives to target Western and economic interests. This necessitates the conclusion that maritime terrorism is a threat to commercial ports and shipping. …”
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Re-conceptualising the military-industrial complex : a general systems theory approach by Kuah, Adrian W. J

“…Instead, this paper suggest an approach that goes beyond conventional economic analyses and draws on organization theory to develop a dynamic model that better reflects the current realities in defence industrial sector. …”
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Late-in-life childbearing (Kōrei Shussan) in contemporary Japan by Castro-Vázquez, Genaro

“…The late-in-life-childbearing mother largely stems from governmental economic neoliberalism imbued with traditional conservatism and the pervasive influence of the Assisted Reproduction Treatments industry.…”
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Intermediary elites in the treaty port world : Tong Mow-chee and his collaborators in Shanghai, 1873–1897 by Abe, Kaori

“…Specifically, it focuses on the formation of the socio-economic network of Tong Mow-chee (Tang Maozhi 唐茂枝) (1828–1897), a well-known Chinese compradormerchant serving the British firm Jardine Matheson & Co. and other anglophone and Chinese figures, including William Venn Drummond and Tong King-sing who supported Mow-chee’s commercial and political activities. …”
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Graphene-Pt\ITO counter electrode to significantly reduce Pt loading and enhance charge transfer for high performance dye-sensitized solar cell by Guai, Guan Hong, Song, Qun Liang, Guo, Chun Xian, Lu, Zhisong, Chen, Tao, Ng, Chee Mang, Li, Chang Ming

“…This work renders an economical manufacturing process to fabricate high performance DSSC for potential commercial production.…”
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Social reproduction and the limits of a neoliberal approach : the case of Singapore by Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li

“…Should citizenship status confer social rights independent of an individual's economic contribution? This study approaches this question through looking at social settings in which answers are contested. …”
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Designing drug-loaded multi-layered polymeric microparticles by Widjaja, Effendi, Loo, Say Chye Joachim, Lee, Wei Li

“…This work reports how novel multi-layered (from double-layered to quadruple-layered) microparticles comprising immiscible polymers can be fabricated through a simple, economical, reliable and versatile one-step solvent evaporation method. …”
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Optimizations of power consumption and supply in the smart grid : analysis of the impact of data communication reliability by Niyato, Dusit, Dong, Qiumin, Wang, Ping, Hossain, Ekram

“…For optimizing the power supply, we consider an economic dispatch method which is modeled by using stochastic programming (SP), taking into account the unavailability of the exact power demand and supply information. …”
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Asymmetric returns, gradual bubbles and sudden crashes by Chia, Wai-Mun, Huang, Weihong, Zheng, Huanhuan

“…[Financial crises and interacting heterogeneous agents. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 34, no. 6: 1105–22], this paper examines the phenomena of asymmetric returns, gradual bubbles and sudden crashes. …”
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Strategi Pemanfaatan Pengelolaan Aset tetap (tanah dan bangunan) di Pemerintah Daerah Kabupaten Sorong by , Selfianus B. Mainolo, , Dra. Wahyu Hidayati, M.Si

“…The results showed that the utilization of goods / assets located in the SO and WO quadrant with the highest score, so the strategy is a strategy that can be implemented using the internal weaknesses of Sorong regency administration in managing these assets in cooperation with the private sector to leverage assets and the Independent Assessment Team to be able to find out how much the economic value of these assets. Strategy of using force to take advantage of existing opportunities, the investment opportunities of these assets, thereby increasing revenues. …”

PENGARUH AFILIASI BIG 4, KAP YANG TERDAFTAR DI PCAOB, KEPEMILIKAN MANAJEMEN, DAN JUMLAH KOMITE AUDIT TERHADAP DISCRETIONARY ACCRUALS (Pada Perusahaan Manufaktur yang Terdaftar di B... by , Boria Gemala, , Taufikur Rahman, S.E., M.B.A., Akt.

“…Accruals allow managers to communicate their private and inside information and thereby improve the ability of earnings to reflect underlying economic value. At the same time, managers could abuse the flexibility that permitted by GAAP by engaging an aggressive and opportunistic reporting of accruals which known as earning management. …”

Environmental impacts of urbanisation on forest reserved areas in Hulu Langat by Asmawi, M. Zainora, Ibrahim, Ainaa Nawwarah

“…Generally, forests are known to have a wider range of socio-cultural, economic and environmental values. Forests have important roles to play in sustaining many aspects of human dimensions. …”
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TANJUNG KOTA TERKEPUNG : PENGARUH KEGIATAN EKSTRAKTIF SKALA BESAR TERHADAP PERKEMBANGAN DAN EKSISTENSI KOTA by , Jelita Anggraini Meisarah, , Ir. Leksono Probo Subanu, MURP., Ph.D

“…Based on the analysis found that: (1) large-scale extractive industries were affect the development of the city which contributed to the increase of population and economic growth…”

CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM IN THE SEARCH FOR PEACE IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES by , JERSON BENIA NARCISO, M.TH., , Dr. Fatimah Husein

“…Analysis of the socio-economic, political, religious, and cultural context reigning in Mindanao as well as the role that Christianity and Islam have played in the peace process is made from the perspective of a Christian and Islamic theology of liberation. …”

PERATINGAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN MODEL PERATINGAN CENTER FOR GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE UGM (Studi Pada PT Bank Mandiri, Tbk) by , Ratih Kartika Sari, , Prof. Dr. Indra Wijaya Kusuma, M.B.A., CMA.

“…The banking industry has an important role in supporting economic growth and national stability. The failure of Corporate Governance (CG) implementation in management of the Bank, showed by the result that have tremendous impact, which is the collapse of the national pillars of economy and the global financial crisis. …”

PENGARUH MEDIUM BERKUALITAS TEKNIS DALAM PERTUMBUHAN DAN AKTIVITAS BAKTERI PUPUK HAYATI by , ANDRIANA KARTIKAWATI, , Dr. Ir. Ngadiman, M.Si.

“…This method leads to high cost production, less economically competitive in the market. This research was aimed to study the effect of technical grade media on the growth and activity of biofertilizer bacteria. …”