ABSTRACT Existing literature largely agrees that authoritarian regimes establish channels for political participation to gather valuable information on citizens' anti‐regime sentiments and policy preferences and to supervise lower‐level bureaucrats and firms.
Anton Bogs
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‘Soldiers of Culture’ and their ‘Little Comrades’: The International Brigades and the Children of Civil War Spain, 1936–1939 [PDF]
Adrian Pole
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Large-scale, Dynamic and Distributed Coalition Formation with Spatial and Temporal Constraints [PDF]
The Coalition Formation with Spatial and Temporal constraints Problem (CFSTP) is a multi-agent task allocation problem in which few agents have to perform many tasks, each with its deadline and workload. To maximize the number of completed tasks, the agents need to cooperate by forming, disbanding and reforming coalitions.
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The strategy & goals of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Syrian Revolution [PDF]
Issue title: Preludes to the Islamic State: contextualizing the rise of extremism in the Syrian UprisingSince the Hama events of 1982 that led to the Muslim Brotherhood’s forced exile from Syria, the group’s aim has been the return to Syria.
Ramírez, Naomí
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How to transform a ‘place of violence’ into a ‘space of collective remembering’: Italy and its traumatic past [PDF]
This paper seeks to analyse cultural trauma theories and their consequences as well as their potential applicability to cases of collective trauma where access to the legal arena in the rehabilitation process is not possible.
Tota, Anna Lisa
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ABSTRACT Flood risk is often unequally distributed. These inequalities highly depend on socio‐political decisions. The recognition of the needs of individuals within a floodplain needs to be considered as a precondition for reaching justice in flood risk management, especially as people differ in their vulnerabilities and capacities to deal with floods.
Thomas Thaler, Sebastian Seebauer
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A quantum random access memory (QRAM) using a polynomial encoding of binary strings [PDF]
Quantum algorithms claim significant speedup over their classical counterparts for solving many problems. An important aspect of many of these algorithms is the existence of a quantum oracle, which needs to be implemented efficiently in order to realize the claimed advantages.
arxiv +1 more source
The Conditions of the Working Class in 1960s Beirut: Fire and Everyday Struggles in Karantina
Abstract In this paper, I examine the spatial processes of class formation within informal urban spaces. To do so, I consider Karantina in the 1960s, an outgrowth of one of the oldest refugee camps in the world situated in northeastern Beirut, Lebanon.
Diala Lteif
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Tremlett, Giles: The International Brigades. Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War, 720 S., Bloomsbury, London u. a. 2021. [PDF]
Reiner Tosstorff
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The Antifascist Tower of Babel: Language Barriers in Civil-War Spain [PDF]
The International Brigades were a hybrid bunch: multi-ethnic, multi-national—and multi-lingual: not everybody spoke everybody’s language.
Marco, Jorge
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