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Stimuli‐Responsive Electrofluidic Nervous System for Autonomous Soft Robots
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A stimuli‐responsive electrofluidic nervous system (SENS) is introduced to achieve sensing, signal processing, and decision‐making using soft materials. Comprising fluidic switches and electroactive actuators, SENS enables multimodal stimuli‐responsiveness and autonomous control in soft robots.
Dip Kumar Saha +3 more
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Soft Power in Trade: Quantifying the Impact of Confucius Institutes on China's Exports
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the role of Confucius Institutes (CIs) as a form of China's cultural diplomacy and their impact on international trade, particularly exports. Using a gravity model, we analyze data from 1990 to 2019 across countries, finding that the presence of CIs significantly boosts China's exports.
Renjing Chen, Wei Jin, Tangrui Yang
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A key objective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to leave no one behind and support least developed and other fragile countries first. The same is an objective of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) group of bilateral donors.
Savo Heleta, Logan Cochrane
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Understanding the UK's soft power: more than Shakespeare and the Royal Family [PDF]
, 2018 Do we understand enough about what soft power is? Gary Rawnsley explains that although the focus has so far been on cultural icons and stories, there is another important aspect to soft power: the actions of the British government.
Rawnsley, Gary
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Multi‐Material Droplet‐Based Hydrogel Threads for Extrusion 3D Printing
Small Methods, EarlyView.This study introduces a novel approach to produce multi‐material threads for 3D printing by precisely arranging hydrogel droplets separated by lipid bilayers. By merging the precision of inkjet printing with the scalability of extrusion printing, this method prevents cross‐contamination, maintains material control, and enables intricate designs ...
Dor Tillinger +2 more
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Confucius Institute at Universitas Al Azhar, Jakarta the Unseen Power of China [PDF]
, 2017 China's soft power is a difficult concept to measure if the Confucius Institute is the only source relied on. Joseph Nye's concept of soft power puts a strong emphasis on “the power of attraction” as a tool to persuade or “to shape the preferences of ...
Lan, T. J. (Thung)
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Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that football represents an underutilised opportunity for the Labour Party to anchor a wider programme of civic renewal. In many working‐class communities, the decline of trade unions, working men's clubs and other associational spaces has eroded collective life, leaving football clubs as rare institutions where dignity ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Analisis Pembangunan Soft Power Qatar melalui Piala Dunia 2022 [PDF]
, 2015 Qatar merupakan negara kecil yang terletak di Timur Tengah dan berdampingan dengan Arab Saudi. Namun, meskipun negara kecil, Qatar sedikit demi sedikit mempunyai pengaruh di kawasan regional.
Eranda, R. (Rafi)
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Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract We analyze challenges and adaptation strategies of Nordic legal overseers, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen and Chancellors of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, amid the COVID‐19 crisis. We study how the accountability capacities of the legal overseers were affected when standard practices of inclusive decision‐making were severed ...
Tero Erkkilä +2 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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