'The world city-concept travels east' : on excessive imagination and limited urban sustainability in UAE world cities [PDF]
, 2012 Bassens, David
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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PotatoGuardNet: a refined deep learning framework for potato leaf disease detection. [PDF]
Front Plant SciNawaz M, Javed A, Saudagar AKJ.
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi +3 more
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Transformer-Based Foundation Learning for Robust and Data-Efficient Skin Disease Imaging. [PDF]
Diagnostics (Basel)Nasir IM +3 more
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Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
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Sterically Controlled Interfacial Charge-Transfer Mechanisms in Unsymmetrical Squaraine Dyes for Suppressed Aggregation and Enhanced Performance in High-Efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. [PDF]
ChemistryOpenAlotaibi AN +3 more
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‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how Kurdish smugglers navigate state and insurgent checkpoints in the borderlands of western Iran. Drawing on ethnographic research, it analyses two key navigational tactics: persin, a form of negotiated passage involving transaction, recognition and the contingent toleration of authority; and jimi, rendered here as ...
Peyman Zinati
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Hybrid AI Intrusion Detection: Balancing Accuracy and Efficiency. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Joshi VR +3 more
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Isbaaro: Checkpoints and World Making beyond the State in Somalia
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the dynamics of checkpoint authority in Somalia, focusing on how kinship, mobility and checkpoint practices intersect to shape political and social orders. Challenging the notion that checkpoint governance is either an expression of state‐like power or indicative of the state's absence, the authors argue that Somali ...
Peer Schouten +2 more
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