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AMERICA IN THE WORLD AFTER HEGEMONY

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2018
There are a variety of literatures that illuminate the logic and character of the post -Cold War transformation of the global system. One literature explores the rise and decline of the great powers and the international orders that they establish and ...
A. Y. Borisov
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Democratic Hopes in the Polycentric City [PDF]

, 2004
The polycentric model of municipal governance suggests that multiple jurisdictions may approximate an efficient market for local public services: citizens move to jurisdictions offering services they value at tax rates they are willing and able to pay ...
King, Loren
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Climate Governance and Agriculture in Southeast Asia: Learning From a Polycentric Approach

Frontiers in Political Science, 2021
The global climate governance framework will need to empower a wide range of groups representing different geopolitical and sector-specific interests to engage in climate action.
Siw Fasting, Imelda Bacudo, Beau Damen, Dhanush Dinesh   +3 more
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POLYCENTRIC EXOPROSTHETIC KNEE JOINTS – EXTENT OF SHORTENING DURING SWING PHASE

Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal, 2020
BACKGROUND: An often assumed advantage of polycentric knee joints compared to monocentric ones is the improved ground clearance during swing phase due to the geometric shortening of the lower leg segment (LLS).
Thomas Maximilian Köhler, Malte Bellmann, Siegmar Blumentritt   +2 more
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Enforcing the climate change act [PDF]

, 2015
This paper examines the enforceability of the duties in the Climate Change Act 2008 which require the UK’s GHG emissions to be reduced over time. Section B highlights how the Act’s other provisions must be interpreted so as to give proper support to ...
Church, Jonathan
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Revision of the Gunston polycentric knee arthroplasty with total knee arthroplasty

Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica, 2020
The Gunston polycentric knee arthroplasty, first designed and performed by Frank Gunston in 1971, is the first prosthesis considering the natural knee biomechanics. Although the polycentric knee arthroplasty showed encouraging results to relieve pain and
Kaya Memisoglu, U. Sefa Muezzinoglu, Cumhur Cevdet Kesemenli   +2 more
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How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA

Ecology and Society, 2023
Many contemporary social and ecological challenges in forested ecosystems (climate change, invasive species, wildland-urban interface development, and wildfires) span multiple jurisdictions and are characterized by complex patterns of social and ...
R. Patrick Bixler, Rebecca S. Epanchin-Niell, Mark W. Brunson, Ryan D. Tarver, Benjamin A. Sikes, Meredith McClure, Clare E. Aslan   +6 more
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Which D’s are the important ones? The effects of regional location and density on driving distance in Oslo and Stavanger

Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2017
Based on a study in the Greater Oslo and Greater Stavanger urban areas in Norway, this paper employs quantitative and qualitative research methods to investigate the influences of residential location and neighborhood characteristics on car driving ...
Petter Naess, Xinyu (Jason) Cao, Arvid Strand   +2 more
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Taxonomic Studies on Cladochytrium (Cladochytriaceae) Species from North India

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology
In the present study, three polycentric chytrid species of the genus Cladochytrium, specifically Cladochytrium replicatum, Cladochytrium tenue and Cladochytrium setigerum are described briefly herein and accompanied by photographs illustrating their ...
Manish Kumar Dubey, Ram Sanmukh Upadhyay
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Stretching the Rules: Monocentric Chromosomes with Multiple Centromere Domains [PDF]

, 2012
The centromere is a functional chromosome domain that is essential for faithful chromosome segregation during cell division and that can be reliably identified by the presence of the centromere-specific histone H3 variant CenH3.
A Kawabe, AE Hall, AF Dernburg, Alice Navrátilová, Andrea Koblížková, AW Higgins, BA Sullivan, BE Black, Beth A. Sullivan, DA Pepper, E Schroeder-Reiter, Elizabeth Schroeder-Reiter, Eva Chocholová, Gerhard Wanner, HR Lee, HS Malik, HS Malik, IC Moraes, J Macas, J Monen, Jiří Macas, JM Jiang, K Nagaki, K Nagaki, K Prufer, M Plohl, M Sanei, MD Bennett, OJ Marshall, P Binarova, P Neumann, P Neumann, P Neumann, P Novák, Pavel Neumann, PB Talbert, Petr Novák, PW Barlow, R ten Hoopen, RJ McFarlane, RK Dawe, S Heckmann, SA Ribeiro, T Haizel, Veronika Steinbauerová, W Zhang   +45 more
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