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The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The past decade has seen a marked shift as many previously liberal democratic states have backslidden, taking authoritarian turns. How should liberal actors respond to democratic backsliding by others? Although it might seem that it is vital for liberal actors to react robustly to avoid complicity or to maintain their liberal integrity, this ...
James Pattison
wiley   +1 more source

Dimensional validation of CubeSat structures using 3D optical scanning technology. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Eulopa-Hernandez JF, Bibiano-Valente ES, Padilla-Pérez DA, Meléndez-Martínez J, Couder-Castañeda C, Grageda-Arellano JI.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Noise Annoyance and Sleep Disturbance Due to Road Traffic and Railway Noise in Germany. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health
Benz SL, Kuhlmann J, Bilik J, Liepert M, Schreckenberg D.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Mobility Politics of Hong Kong's High‐Speed Rail

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human geography scholarship has revealed how powerful and marginalised actors alike may use (im)mobility to exert authority, and it has recognised the ability of infrastructure to either consolidate or undermine state power. This paper uses new evidence to demonstrate how Hong Kong's express rail link (XRL) to Mainland China was implicated in ...
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing alternate replacement strategy of k-out-of-n: F systems with common-mode degradation: An application to railway grid. [PDF]

PLoS One
Wang L, Ding M, Liu B, Qiu Q.
europepmc   +1 more source

Narrating health and well‐being with vulnerable participants: The ethics of composite fiction as a creative method in health geographies

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper explores the ethical and creative value of composite fiction as a method for engaging with vulnerable participants in health geography research. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Port Talbot, South Wales, it examines how composite fiction can allow for co‐creation, to challenge authorial authority, support the ethical ...
Rosie Knowles
wiley   +1 more source

Steerable terahertz beams using surface waves on an active metasurface. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Shiri Y, Lei J, Amarasinghe Y, Chen HT, Chang CC, Lilly MP, Addamane S, Mittleman DM.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mapping Disjuncture: Internationalism and Palestine

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper reflects on a ‘Map Conversation’ session at the 2024 RGS‐IBG Annual Conference, that explored maps of the League of Nations and Palestine. The authors contrast maps promoting global consciousness in the 1920s with those charting colonial encroachment in Palestine.
Zena Agha, Jake Hodder
wiley   +1 more source

Optimization and validation of traction performance for an eight-axle heavy-haul locomotive during gradient starting. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Liu Y, Wu X, Ma P, Yuan X.
europepmc   +1 more source