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The ‘Agency of Mapping’ in South Asia: Galle-Matara (Sri Lanka), Mumbai (India) and Khulna (Bangladesh)
Published 2008-01-01“…Globalisation is spatially leaving its imprint as cities and landscapes are progressively being built by an ever-more fragmented, piecemeal and ad-hoc project modus – funded by established and new-found fortunes of national and international developers and lenders, development aid projects and (often corrupt) governments. At the same time, ‘natural’ disasters are increasing in severity and frequency – due to climate change and the flagrant disregard of the environment in the relentless dive to impose imported terms of reference for modernisation and urbanisation. …”
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Assessing the role of local councils in the development of sustainable urban security (Case Study; Urmia City)
Published 2023-06-01“…In this regard, the local councils, as the most prominent local institutions and the most important decentralization manifestations, symbolize the serious presence of the people to determine their own fate, if they are institutionalized in the governance structure as coordinators of the executive agencies. …”
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Exploring the Links Between Forest Stewardship Council Certification and Biodiversity Outcomes at a Global Level
Published 2025-01-01“…Specifically, using generalized random forests (GRF) and data from 91 countries between 2008 and 2019, we examine the associated factors that govern FSC-FM certifications relationship with percentage threatened species. …”
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Theories of truth and theories of meaning: a discussion of semantic skepticism and its possible solutions based on Quine, Davidson, and Dummett's work
Published 2024-12-01“…Dummett, however, thinks that a theory of truth fails to frame non-straightforward stipulations governing the role of sentences in cases involving nonclassical standards of proof. …”
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Coevolutionary dynamics in the grass-livestock social-ecological system of China's alpine pastoral areas: A case study of the Qilian Mountains region in China.
Published 2025-01-01“…Evaluating the dynamic co-evolution and feedback mechanisms within socio-ecological systems is crucial for determining the resilience and sustainability of environmental governance strategies. The grass-livestock system, as a complex entity encompassing livestock nutrition, foraging behavior, vegetation ecology, pastoralists' economic income, and policy interventions, indicates that any change in a single element may trigger a chain reaction within the system. …”
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Probing spectral features of quantum many-body systems with quantum simulators
Published 2025-02-01“…Our approach effectively realises a spectral detector by processing the dynamics of observables with time intervals drawn from a defined probability distribution, which only requires native time evolution governed by the Hamiltonian without ancilla. The critical element of our method is the engineered emergence of frequency resonance such that the excitation spectrum can be probed. …”
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Online Projective Integral with Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for Incompressible Flows Past NACA0012 Airfoil
Published 2012-01-01“…The solution is then projected with larger time steps using any standard time integrator, without the need to recompute it from the governing equations. This is called the online projective integration method. …”
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Exploring corporate reputation variables to measure personal reputations
Published 2022-10-01“…This measurement instrument includes all the assessment criteria of the Reputation Institute’s (2017) the RepTrak®, as well as the criteria of the Authentic Personal Governance Model, and the Personal Balanced Scorecard Framework proposed by Rampersad and Hussain (2014). …”
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A Novel Elastic Metamaterial with Multiple Resonators for Vibration Suppression
Published 2021-01-01“…In the first mechanism, the pinion is considered as the single resonator, and in the 2DOF model, on the other hand, the pinion and small mass acted as multiple resonators. By obtaining the governing equations of motion for a single cell in each model, the dynamic behavior of two metastructures is thoroughly investigated. …”
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Technology adoption and extreme stock risk: Evidence from digital tax reform in China
Published 2025-02-01“…Abstract The digital reform of tax administration occupies a pivotal role due in enhancing governmental governance capabilities in the digital era. …”
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Rising Value of Turkish Foreign Policy: Cultural Diplomacy
Published 2013-12-01“…In this period, the parallel diplomacy practiced on a one-to-one basis by Turkish educational institutions, local governments and various NGOs through activities ranging from cultural events to humanitarian aid, has been the invisible power of Turkish foreign policy. …”
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Why Natural Language Processing is Not Reading: Two Philosophical Distinctions and their Educational Import
Published 2025-01-01“…While natural language processing proceeds on the principle that a text’s meaning can be deciphered by applying the rules governing the language in which the text is written, close reading is premised on the idea that this meaning lies in the interplay that the text prompts within readers. …”
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Structure and content of administrative and legal status of the subjects counteracting offenses in the field of entrepreneurial activity
Published 2018-11-01“…The main ones have been highlighted: the President of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine; local governments; Ministry of Finance of Ukraine; Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine; State Fiscal Service and its structural units (except customs control at the border); State Inspectorate of Ukraine; National Bank of Ukraine; revenue and fees authorities of Ukraine. …”
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Decline of post-neoliberal regionalism in South America: Weaknesses of “pink tide” political leadership on Defense policies
Published 2020-09-01“…The article explains the reasons why it was so easy for participant Governments to abandon post-neoliberal regionalism, as soon as the so-called “pink tide” receded. …”
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Numerical Solutions of Duffing Van der Pol Equations on the Basis of Hybrid Functions
Published 2023-01-01“…The benefit of the hybrid functions is that they can be adjusted for different values of n and m, in addition to being capable of yield greater correct numerical answers than the piecewise constant orthogonal function, for the results of integral equations. Resolved governance equation using the Runge-Kutta fourth order algorithm with the stepping time 0.01 s via numerical solution. …”
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BEYOND ONE PARTY STATE DOMINANCE: A REVIEW OF RECURRENT ISSUES IN NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC
Published 2024-12-01“…Recent events, notably the rise of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, indicate a probable shift in political dynamics, as urban and young voters increasingly prioritize governance and policy problems over ethnic and regional loyalty. …”
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Diagnostics of the influence of medical and demographic indicators on regional socio-economic systems
Published 2024-05-01“…These econometric and analytical models can be used by regional governments in the process of strategic planning.…”
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Les « terroirs » maritimes revisités
Published 2018-06-01“….); then we analyze their revival, given the changes of paradigm in terms of biodiversity conservation and the new approaches to co-management (or shared and sustainable governance), focusing on the local level. This dynamic is discussed through various West African examples, from global to local scales: the proposed regionalization of West African sea spaces of the World Bank, Act III of decentralization, completing the process of communalization of traditional terroirs and the creation of Marine Protected Areas and Areas of Community Heritage or the current craze for local sea-food products or meroir.…”
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Agrarian Reform in the Middle East (1945-1965)
Published 2019-12-01“…Between 1945 and 1965, agrarian reform had been introduced into Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen and Saudi Arabia with varying effect. However, most governments instituted agrarian reform for political reasons, with not all of them being as successful as they may have hoped. …”
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Oath-Taking, Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Traditional African Society: The Izzi Example
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