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An Overview of the Rock Art of AlUla: Tracing Changes in Content and Form Across 12,000 Years of Human History

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Next Level of the Arhanud Corps, Facing the Fifth Generation War

open access: yesJournal of Social Interactions and Humanities
The rapid development of information and communication technology in the 21st century has brought about great changes in the world of warfare. In this context, the Air Defense Artillery Corps (Arhanud) as one of the vital components in Indonesia's air defense, is faced with new challenges in facing the fifth generation war (5GW).
openaire   +1 more source

Cicero, money and the challenge of 'new terrorism' : is counter terrorist financing (CTF) a critical inhibitor? Should the emphasis on finance interventions prevail?

open access: yes, 2014
Much of the first generation literature on counter terrorist financing made sweeping generalisations and observations regarding these interventions based on relatively limited case study data.
Parker, Marc
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Between the Indian Ocean and the Gulf: Ceramics From Ḥattā Oasis in the Emirate of Dubai

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents the ceramic finds from archaeological investigations conducted in 2024 at two settlements: ‘Islamic Village' and Suhaila 2, one of a number of mountain villages of the Late Islamic period within the Ḥattā Oasis: a high‐altitude exclave in the Emirate of Dubai. The sites are located on the northeastern slopes of Jabal Qallāt
Seth M. N. Priestman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Not Everything that Counts Can be Counted: A Critical Look at Risk Ratings and Governance Indicators [PDF]

open access: yes
Accurately evaluating country risk and assessing the quality of governance in emerging market economies has become a priority of international corporations, investment banks and multilateral financial institutions. The rating system of the Political Risk
Anja Linder, Carlos Santiso
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From politics to economics: The investigation of the determinants of local administrative hierarchy in the Tang–Song transition

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 39-78, March 2025.
Abstract This study collects original data to examine the determinants of classification criteria of county hierarchy and its rank variations during the Tang–Song period. The results reveal that the county hierarchy was affected by both economic and political situations, with more emphasis on politics in Tang and economics in Song.
Nan Li, Heqi Cai
wiley   +1 more source

The success and failure of United Nations multifunctional peace operations : a comparative case study of conflict transformation in Mozambique and Rwanda

open access: yes, 2005
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-135).This study is about the ending of conflicts. It examines the United Nations (UN) capacities in Conflict Transformation activities through the deployment of multifunctional peace operations.
Bjotveit, Sondre
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Postwar Englishness in the fiction of Pat Barker, Graham Swift and Adam Thorpe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The widely-recognised crisis of Englishness in the 1980s and 1990s has generally been explained as a response to the end of empire. If the place of memories of the First and Second World Wars in this crisis has been considered at all, these have ...
Gunby, Ingrid Jennifer   +1 more
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Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Natural Habitat

open access: yes, 2007
The research herein relates to the development and ideology behind the creative piece Natural Habitat, and is concerned with exploring effective narrative techniques.
Baker, Adam William John
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