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States vs. tech giants. Who is wielding soft power? Soft power in the age of online platforms

, 2023
Online platforms are programmable architectures that enable the organization of relationships between users. These digital ecosystems test the ability of states to exert soft power in a multicentric environment.
Alessandra Massa, Giuseppe Anzera
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A Low‐Potential and Stable Bis‐Dimethylamino‐Substituted Anthraquinone for pH‐Neutral Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries

ChemElectroChem, 2022
Quinone‐based aqueous redox flow batteries (RFBs) have drawn much attention due to their high safety, two‐electron involvement, rapid reaction kinetics, property tunability, and potentially low cost.
Lixing Xia, Yujing Zhang, Prof. Fuzhi Wang, Dr. Fengming Chu, Prof. Yun Yang, Prof. Hui Li, Prof. Zhan'ao Tan   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hong Kong's non‐local undergraduate recruitment: Policies, institutional practices and student perspectives

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Beneath the Hong Kong government's enthusiasm for recruiting non‐local undergraduates—including students from the Chinese Mainland and other international regions—lies a longstanding gap in understanding the core meanings and drivers shaping the territory's expanding focus on inward international student mobility (ISM).
Fang Gao, Wei Yan Xiong, Hei‐hang Hayes Tang, Xiao Han   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Research on the Soft Power of City Culture [PDF]

, 2012
The soft power of city culture is the core of the city soft power. It refers to the influence, cohesion and appeal that a city possesses, which is the main element of the competitiveness and interacts with hard power, for example economy and technology ...
LI, Wenjuan, HONG, Xiaonan, LIN, Dan
core   +1 more source

Voltage-controlled radial wrinkles of a trumpet-like dielectric elastomer structure

AIP Advances, 2018
Wrinkle is usually considered as one failure mode of membrane structure. However, it can also be harnessed in developing smart devices such as dry adhesion tape, diffraction grating, smart window, etc.
Guoyong Mao, Lei Wu, Yimou Fu, Junjie Liu, Shaoxing Qu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

University strategy in transnational higher education: The strategic approaches of newly established and ‘small’ international branch campuses

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Newly established international branch campuses (IBCs) commence operations without a student body, and even after several years, many institutions fail to grow beyond 500 students. Despite having unique strategic needs, small IBCs are largely overlooked in the higher education literature.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Methodology for quantifying particle charge statistics in electric fields of gas insulations

Scientific Reports
Electrically charged particles in high-voltage gas insulation systems can lead to field distortion, partial discharges, and ultimately, insulation breakdowns. Despite their significance, particle charges have rarely been studied in this context.
Hans-Christoph Töpper, Simon Scherrer, Lucio Isa, Christian M. Franck   +3 more
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Central Asia as a special direction of Japan's foreign policy. Review of the book by O.A. Dobrinskaya “Japan's Strategy in Central Asia: Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions”

Японские исследования, 2021
The article contains an analysis of Japan's Strategy in Central Asia: Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions, a monograph by O.A. Dobrinskaya, in terms of its academic level and practical significance.
I. P. Lebedeva
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A spatiotemporal single‐cell atlas of porcine development reveals regulatory dynamics and cellular targets of domestication

iMeta, EarlyView.
This study presents a cross‐tissue, single‐cell/single‐nucleus transcriptomic atlas spanning from prenatal to postnatal developmental stages in pig, characterizing 83 distinct cell types from 252,033 cells. Through the construction of cross‐tissue transcriptional regulatory networks and pseudotime trajectories, we revealed that organogenesis is driven ...
Rong Zhou, Zishuai Wang, Chenghao Hu, Shuhan Deng, Changyun Cai, Yanfang Wang, Shang‐Tong Li, Lijing Bai, Kui Li   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source