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Functional Markets in Yemen’s War Economy

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021
Our article explores the economic activities of households operating in Yemen’s protracted conflict. We examine the growth and maturation of what we call the ‘Functional Economy’ in Yemen, in which Yemenis engage in economic transactions away from ...
R. Joseph Huddleston, David Wood
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The Application of Customer Service Standards and Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Discretion in Lithuanian State Agencies

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2020
The main purpose of this article is to explore how standardization of the public service provision and introduction of customer service standards affect the de facto discretion of civil servants. The study uses a qualitative case study approach. Two main
Civinskas Remigijus, Gončiarova Natalja, Pivoras Saulius   +2 more
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Public Diplomacy as Corrective Lens? [PDF]

, 2014
A recent book from Martha Bayles, a lecturer in humanities at Boston College, tackles the question ofhow American entertainment industry products confound official U.S. government efforts to representthe nation to populations abroad.
Metzgar, Emily T.
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Seas Opportunity: Understanding The Blue Economy Landscape In The MENA Region

Global Focus
This paper aims to investigate the emerging blue economy landscape in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Furthermore, this paper seeks to explore various dimensions of sustainable marine resource management and initiatives undertaken by MENA
Inas Alya Haura, Fetra Ardianto
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Investigating Enrollment Decline in Political Science and International Relations Programmes in the Kurdistan Region

Eurasian Journal of Management & Social Sciences
Student enrolment in Political Science, International Relations and Diplomacy (IRD) is alarmingly low. In order to tackle this problem, this research aims to first determine the causes behind the decline in student enrollment in Political Science ...
Mohammad Salih Mustafa, Dana Mohammed Danish Aladdin Sajadi, Bayad Sarwar Abdullah   +2 more
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Using Machine Learning in Predicting the Impact of Meteorological Parameters on Traffic Incidents

Mathematics, 2023
The opportunity for large amounts of open-for-public and available data is one of the main drivers of the development of an information society at the beginning of the 21st century.
Aleksandar Aleksić, Milan Ranđelović, Dragan Ranđelović   +2 more
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Coherent Absorption Reveals Colors Hidden in a Grey Fabry–Pérot Cavity

Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
A dielectric thin film shows colors depending on its thickness; this effect can be used to encode information normally accessible through single‐beam spectroscopy. We developed a method to conceal this kind of information, based on coating the dielectric with a matched conductor, that suppresses the color‐bearing thin‐film resonances.
Giuseppe E. Lio, Giulio Carotta, Lorenzo Lavista, Andrea Camposeo, Giacomo Venturi, Agnese Guernieri, Alessandro Pitanti, Simon A. R. Horsley, Giuseppe C. La Rocca, Alessandro Tredicucci, Simone Zanotto   +10 more
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Places in diplomacy [PDF]

, 2012
In the world of diplomacy, what does Vienna or Paris evoke, for instance? For the historian, there is the inevitability of associating these imperial capitals of the Old World with major diplomatic events such as the Congress of Vienna of 1815 and the ...
Shimazu, Naoko
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Digital Transformation of the Tourism Industry and Its Impact on Export Potential: Evidence from Kazakhstan

Journal of Central Asian Studies
Digital tourism in Kazakhstan is a rapidly developing field that is actively incorporating modern technologies to enhance the tourism experience and improve management.
Laylo Tashpulatova, Fotima Suyunova
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Customized Itinerant Frequency Combs by Cascaded Nonlinear Effects

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A cascaded third‐order nonlinear system generates an itinerant frequency comb with the comb center frequency decoupled from the cavity resonance. This enables arbitrary spectral scaling, flexible spacing adjustments, and real‐time central‐frequency engineering, allowing comb splicing and subdivision. The resulting versatility and reconfigurability open
Yi Wang, Yulong Liu, Zeji Li, Wenyan Wang, Sihan Wang, Cheng Wang, Jingwei Zhou, Jie‐Qiao Liao, Tiefu Li   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source