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Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As a crucial puzzle piece of deep space exploration, exploring small bodies can provide significant scientific insights and valuable mineral resources. Unlike missions to the Moon and Mars, small‐body missions pose distinct technical challenges, including communication delays, weak gravity, and uncertain environments. This paper reviews a full
Xin Zhang +3 more
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The Great Britain’s Influence in the Post-Soviet Space: Socio-Cultural Aspect [PDF]
Современная ЕвропаThe paper is aimed at investigating the recent trends of Britain’s socio-cultural influence in the former USSR republics. The analysis covers London’s major regional programs, financing, mechanisms of influence, and implementing organizations ...
Vyacheslav V. Sutyrin
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Baltic Region, 2020 The relevance of this study of post-Soviet transition lies in the focus on the technically theoretical problems that are nevertheless the key to understanding regional development processes in the East of the Baltic Sea.
Maksimtsev I. A. +2 more
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Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We
Michael Schultz +2 more
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Identity Entanglement: Rethinking Marginality through the Intersectional, Liminal, and Antithetical
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.While identity research has given sustained attention to marginality, intersectionality, and the effects of power on identity, the formal interactional dynamics through which identities are constituted remain limited. I present identity entanglement as a useful framework for better understanding and articulating the relational complexities of identity.
Jules Vivid
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Primary accumulation in the Soviet transition [PDF]
, 1985 The Soviet background to the idea of primary socialist accumulation is presented. The mobilisation of labour power and of products into public sector investment from outside are shown to have been the two original forms of the concept.
Harrison, Mark
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Guanxi and Wasta: 20 Years of Evolution and Future Directions for Informal Network Research
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article provides an examination of the evolution of networking in China and the Arab world over two decades and provides an update to, and new insights arising from, an article called Guanxi and Wasta; A Comparison, published in Thunderbird International Business Review in 2006.
Kate Hutchings +3 more
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Pension Reform in a Highly Informalized Post-Soviet Economy [PDF]
Pension reform is now on the national agenda in most post-Soviet countries. These countries have highly informalized economies, which means that large areas of economic activity go unreported to the authorities.
Les Mayhew, Anton Dobronogov
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Approaching the end of post - soviet transition? Trends of youth crime in Klaipėda in 2005-2019
Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach, 2020 The article presents a sociological and criminological analysis of data on registered youth criminal offences (young people of 14-29 years old) in Klaipėda. The analysed period covers the years from 2005 to 2019 (late post-Soviet period).
Liutauras Kraniauskas, Arūnas Acus
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Trends in first union formation in post-Soviet Central Asia
, 2009 This study used recently available survey data to examine trends in the rate of first union formation in the post-Soviet Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Clifford, D.
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