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Civil Resistance from the End of the Cold War to the 21st Century: A Historical Perspective

Nuovi autoritarismi e democrazie: diritto, istituzioni, società, 2022
Civil resistance made a significant contribution to the largely peaceful end of the Cold War and has become an increasingly important factor of post-Cold War international politics.
Carola Cerami
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The Basic Non-violence Resistance Forms and Hidden Nationalism as Inner Insubordination to the Soviet Regime in Latvia in seventies and eighties

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 1997
The non–violent resistance to the Soviet dictatorship by various national groups in Latvia had common and different features. For Latvians, the idea of Latvian independence was the most important, whereas for Jews and Germans the most important was the ...
Indulis Zalite
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Flexural Behavior of a 30-Meter Full-Scale Simply Supported Prestressed Concrete Box Girder

Applied Sciences, 2020
Compared with scaled-model testing, full-scale destructive testing is more reliable since the test has no size effect and can truly record the mechanical performance of the structure.
Jianqun Wang, Shenghua Tang, Hui Zheng, Cong Zhou, Mingqiao Zhu   +4 more
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Seismic Resistance of Non-Linearly Deformable Large-Span Spatial Structures of Unique Buildings

Железобетонные конструкции, 2023
Analytical, computer and experimental modeling methods are applied in the study of seismic resistance and changing dynamic parameters of long-term loaded non-linearly deformed large-span spatial shell structures.
Saidmaksud R. Razzakov
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“Resistance to civil government”

Revista Filosofía UIS, 2016
Henry David Thoreau
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Nonviolent Resistance and Repression: Examining Civil Resistance and Authoritarian Adaptation in Post-Soviet States

Journal on Baltic Security
The article underscores the significance of comprehending how leaders in post-USSR nations, including Vladimir Putin, Alexander Lukashenko, and Nursultan Nazarbayev, solidified their regimes through the suppression and dismantling of civil societies ...
Pavlo Lysenko
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Experimental Study and Numerical Analysis on Impact Resistance of Civil Air Defense Engineering Shear Wall

Advances in Civil Engineering, 2021
In order to study the impact resistance of civil air defense engineering shear wall, the impact resistance of civil air defense engineering shear wall was studied by combining finite element numerical simulation with pendulum impact test.
Chenglong Shi, Jigang Zhang, Junbo Zhang, Feng Shao, Yicong Zhang, Menglin Zhang   +5 more
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Feasibility analysis of treating aeolian sand and recycled mixed powder as environmentally friendly materials in the ultra-high-performance concrete

Developments in the Built Environment, 2023
This paper addresses the performance and environmental impact evaluation of a developed UHPC with recycled mixed powder (RMP) and aeolian sand (AS). The RMP is obtained from the crushing and grinding of waste concrete blocks and clay bricks.
Chao Zhu, Teng Yi, Xin Lin, Guoliang Bai, Chao Liu   +4 more
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Freedom, Firearms, and Civil Resistance [PDF]

The Journal of Ethics, 2021
AbstractThe claim that guns can safeguard freedom is common in US political discourse. In light of a broadly republican understanding of freedom, I evaluate this claim and its implications. The idea is usually that firearms would enable citizens to engage in revolutionary violence against a tyrannical government.
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Four-point bending tests of ECC: Mechanical response and toughness evaluation

Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2022
This work investigated the mechanical response of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) with high content fly ash by four-point bending tests, and a suitable method was recommended for the flexural toughness evaluation of ECC.
Yangxi Zhang, Shijun Zhang, Mingke Deng
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