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Unpacking the influence of the council presidency on European Union external policies: the Polish council presidency and the eastern partnership [PDF]

, 2013
The special position of the rotating Council Presidency has raised a long-standing debate on the extent to which this function allows a Member State to exert additional influence on European Union decision-making, in particular in external policy.
Bossuyt, Fabienne, Orbie, Jan, Vandecasteele, Bruno   +2 more
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EUROPEAN UNION AND TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS: ROTATING PRESIDENCIES OF FRANCE, CZECH REPUBLIC AND SWEDEN

Ankara Avrupa Calismalari Dergisi, 2010
Avrupa Birliği ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri arasındaki ilişki, taraflar için daima stratejik bir öneme sahip olmuştur ve ikili arasındaki ilişki değişen AB Dönem Başkanlıklarında farklı şekiller almıştır. Bu durum, AB’nin ABD ile olan ilişkilerinde tartışma konusu olmuştur.
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From 0D to 3D liquid crystal elastomers architectures: Fabrications and applications

Responsive Materials, EarlyView.
This review presents a dimension‐oriented overview of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), highlighting their molecular alignment, fabrication strategies, and programmable deformations from 0D particles to 3D architectures. Emphasis is placed on how dimensionality guides design principles, enables diverse actuation modes, and bridges fundamental ...
Mingxuan Liu, Zongxuan Wu, Jinquan Zheng, Yidan Zhu, Yanjun Liu, Lingling Ma, Wei Hu, Yan‐Qing Lu, Dan Luo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fair Markets and Resilient Supply Chains: Designing Sustainable Intermediation for Rural Communities

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agriculture in Ecuador's communes faces significant economic, social, and environmental challenges, intensified by supply chains dominated by traditional intermediaries. The lack of context‐specific sustainability studies further increases the vulnerability of smallholders.
Jacqueline del Rocío Bacilio Bejeguen, Verónica Ramírez Cortés, Larissa Paola Gabriel Macedo Castro, Raquel Santiago Romo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sampling, Mobility, and Anchoring in Small‐Body Sampling Robots: A Comprehensive Review

SmartBot, EarlyView.
Small‐body sampling robots are exploration systems that perform contact, sampling, and stable operations on microgravity bodies such as asteroids and comets. The authors review representative robot architectures and key technologies, focusing on the mechanisms, evolution, and coupling of sampling, mobility, and anchoring.
Yurui Shen, Yixin Zhu, Mingxia Bao, Ting Zhang, Jun Wu, Jingbin Hao, Dezheng Hua, Xinhua Liu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The EU in the G8 system: assessing EU member states' involvement [PDF]

, 2009
Even though the role of the European Union (EU) in international organizations has generated increasing academic and political interest, scant attention has been devoted to the EU’s participation in the Group of Eight (G8).
Lesage, Dries, Nasra, Skander, Orbie, Jan, Van de Graaf, Thijs, Vermeiren, Mattias   +4 more
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Strange Pulsar Hypothesis

, 2005
It appears that there is a genuine shortage of radio pulsars with surface magnetic fields significantly smaller than $\sim 10^8$ Gauss. We propose that the pulsars with very low magnetic fields are actually strange stars locked in a state of minimum free
Alcock, Bailin, Baym, Benvenuto, Benvenuto, Bhattacharya, Bombaci, Chau, Cognard, Datta, Dey, Gondek-Rosińska, Haensel, Jishnu Dey, Li, Madsen, Manjari Bagchi, Mira Dey, Monika Sinha, Olinto, Raka Dona Ray Mandal, Sauls, Sinha, Sushan Konar, Witten, Zhang   +25 more
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The Consequences of Soil Organic Carbon for Crop Yield, Farm Productivity and Profit

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Crop choices affect soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks, allowing farmers to manipulate the amount of carbon sequestered in the soil over time. This paper examines the private and public benefits of crop rotations that sequester additional carbon across the province of Saskatchewan, Canada using a novel field‐level dataset from the Saskatchewan ...
Devin Allen Serfas
wiley   +1 more source

Nigeria and ‘Negotiated Elections’: Examining the Impact of Rotational Presidency on Peace, the National Question, and Development

African Journal of Inter/Multidisciplinary Studies, 2022
Nigeria is a country consistently tilting towards one violent situation or another. Since its independence in 1960, Nigeria has witnessed numerous ethnoreligious conflicts that have threatened its corporate existence. For example, age-long feelings of relative deprivation by certain sections of the country, have given rise to the continuous reference ...
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The Dark Pyramid: Unpacking the Multidimensional Nature of the Dark Side of Leadership

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract The dark side of leadership has been employed as an umbrella term to cover an array of concepts typically concerned with the dysfunctionality and/or toxicity of individual leaders. As the field of leadership studies moves towards ‘post‐heroic’ perspectives, we apply the same ontological positioning, adopting a ‘post‐villainous’ perspective in ...
Peter Stephenson, Richard Bolden, Morgen Witzel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source