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World-volumes and string target spaces [PDF]
, 1996 String duality suggests a fascinating juxtoposition of world-volume and target-space dynamics. This is particularly apparent in the $D$-brane description of stringy solitons that forms a major focus of this article (which is {\it not} intended to be a ...
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Governance, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines how political and administrative elites shape regime transformations under authoritarian rule, proposing an elite‐centered analytical perspective that complements prevailing accounts of “democratic backsliding.” We show how embedding political–administrative relations within a broader elite‐theoretical framework clarifies ...
Kutsal Yesilkagit, Johan Christensen
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Elected Oligarchy and Economic Underdevelopment: The Case of Guyana [PDF]
This study proposes the idea that Guyana’s present government can be categorized as an elected oligarchy. It highlights the existence of several binding constraints (or structural bottlenecks) and demonstrates how these constraints are exacerbated by the
Hinova, Diana, Khemraj, Tarron
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Application of Embodied Intelligence in Intelligent Warehousing and Logistics Scenarios
Engineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 3, March 2026.Embodied intelligence (EI) enhances digital platform efficiency in intelligent logistics, reducing transportation costs, improving throughput by 37.5%, and lowering energy consumption. EI‐driven improvements lead to discriminatory pricing strategies, while lightweight encryption ensures minimal performance overhead, maintaining real‐time operations ...
Jun Zhang, Chuan Zhang, Mingtao Zhang
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Thermidor: The Revolution Betrayed in Trotsky, Orwell and Serge
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Anna Vaninskaya
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Whose Opinion Counts? Political Processes and the Implementation Problem [PDF]
The mechanism used in Nash implementation is a form of direct democracy, taking everyone''s opinion into account. We augment this mechanism with a political process that selects the opinions of a subset of the individuals. We study three such processes --
Saran Rene, Tumennasan Norovsambuu
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Ștefan Zeletin’s View on Romania’s Economic Development – A Reinterpretation [PDF]
Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2020 Ștefan Zeletin is considered to be one of the greatest Romanian scholars in the interwar period. Interested in sociology, philosophy and economics, Zeletin built an ideatic universe which is difficult to define and place from an ideological point of view.
Sorinel Cosma
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The City as an Anti‐Growth Machine
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Logan and Molotch's “urban growth machine” remains foundational in urban theory, describing how coalitions of landowners, developers, and politicians promote urban growth to raise land values. This paper argues that under financialized capitalism, the dynamics have inverted: asset appreciation now outweighs productive investment, and urban ...
Petter Törnberg
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 379-398, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the persistence and transformation of patriarchal–feudal structures in Polish art universities in the context of post‐1989 higher education (HE) reforms. Drawing on 22 in‐depth interviews with socially engaged academic staff (18 women and four men) across 11 Polish artistic institutions, the study explores how ...
Marta Kosińska, Karolina Sikorska
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Hide and rule: Accumulation by disappearance and necro‐periurbanisation in Brazil
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 1, March 2026.Short Abstract This paper examines how peri‐urban spaces are governed through concealment and obfuscation. Focusing on the Baixada Fluminense near Rio de Janeiro, it connects land fraud (‘grilagem’) to the obfuscation of violence, proposing the concept of ‘accumulation by disappearance’.
Jan Simon Hutta
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