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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting the uniaxial compressive strength and elasticity modulus of sandstones from physical and mechanical properties using statistical analyses and artificial intelligence-based techniques. [PDF]

PLoS One
Fereidooni D, Hejazifar M.
europepmc   +1 more source

PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
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Mechanical and transport properties of concrete incorporating recycled crushed clay bricks as coarse and fine aggregates. [PDF]

Sci Rep
AbdElMoaty AMN, Ibrahim HHA, Ismail MK.
europepmc   +1 more source

GROWING GREEN IN US SUBURBIA: Property Value, Race and Domestic Landscaping Aesthetics in Mid‐Century America

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
wiley   +1 more source

Relationship Between Schmidt Hammer Rebound Hardness Test and Concrete Strength Tests for Limestone Aggregate Concrete Based on Experimental and Statistical Study. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Tugrul Tunc E.
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Performance evaluation and environmental sustainability assessment of ferrock-infused concrete. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Vijayan DS, Swamy KR, Jayaseelan R, Devarajan P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Does Higher Education Influence Attitudes Towards Muslims? Examining Mechanisms That Reduce Prejudice Within UK Universities

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between encounters with religious diversity and the perspectives people form about Muslims. Its empirical focus is individuals studying at UK universities. Previous research suggests Muslims are amongst those most subject to negative prejudice in the UK, this being structured around racial or ethnic ...
Tom Fryer, Mathew Guest, Kristin Aune, Lucy Peacock   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Buffering and energy-absorbing characteristics of disc spring composite monomer under impact dynamic load. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Du M, Wang Z, Zhang K, Liu Y, Zhang D, Yang S, Yu T, Ma J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source