Agricultural Water Management, 2023 Saline water is widely used as an alternative water resource for agriculture to overcome the freshwater shortage in arid and semiarid regions. But long-term using of the saline water for irrigation would negatively affect soil properties and crop ...
He Wang +7 more
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Random Chance or Loaded Dice: The Politics of Judicial Designation [PDF]
, 2012 [Excerpt] “In the 1950s and 1960s, the southern states struggled to respond to the civil rights decisions being issued by the U.S. Supreme Court as well as the new civil rights laws being passed by Congress.
Peppers, Todd C. +2 more
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The Ethics of Resisting Deportation [PDF]
, 2019 Can anti-deportation resistance be justified, and if so how and by whom may, or perhaps should, unjust deportations be resisted? In this paper, I seek to provide an answer to these questions.
Birnie, Rutger
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MATEC Web of Conferences, 2016 The article scrutinizes the pressing issues of regulation in the domain of seismic construction. The existing code of rules SNIP II-7-81* “Construction in seismic areas” provides that earthquake resistance calculation be performed on two levels of impact:
Mkrtychev Oleg, Dzhinchvelashvili Guram
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The influence of coal gangue coarse aggregate on the mechanical properties of concrete columns
Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2022 Using coal gangue as coarse aggregate is one of the solutions for the sustainable development of construction engineering. In this paper, the mechanical properties of coal gangue concrete (CGC) columns are investigated.
Hanqing Liu +3 more
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Civil society and international governance: the role of non-state actors in the EU, Africa, Asia and Middle East [PDF]
, 2011 Structures and processes occurring within and between states are no longer the only – or even the most important - determinants of those political, economic and social developments and dynamics that shape the modern world.
Armstrong, David +11 more
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Red and Dead: Reply to critics [PDF]
, 2015 This article is a response to the comments made by Illan Rua Wall, Caroline Holmqvist, Claudia Aradau and Yari Lanci on my book War Power, Police Power (Edinburgh UP, 2014)
Neocleous, MA
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Changes and continuity in Japanese official development assistance : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology at Massey University [PDF]
, 2005 This paper is about Japanese official development assistance (ODA), based on document research and monitoring of media reports in the period between January and October, 2005.
Carter, Matthew David
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Insurgent participation: consensus and contestation in planning the redevelopment of Berlin-Tempelhof airport [PDF]
, 2016 Despite decades of debate, participatory planning continues to be contested. More recently, research has revealed a relationship between participation and neoliberalism, in which participation works as a post-political tool—a means to depoliticize ...
Hilbrandt, Hanna
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Collective action framing genetic engineering resistance in New Zealand [PDF]
, 2011 The genetic engineering resistance movement in New Zealand constructed strategic and meaningful interpretations of why the genetic engineering technique is problematic and what can be done about it.
Tucker, C
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