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How Effective Are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond Unemployment Exit [PDF]

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements.
Lalive, Rafael, van Ours, Jan C., Arni, Patrick   +2 more
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Brexit's Implications for UK and European Sanctions Policy

, 2016
In a new report by the Center on Global Energy Policy, authors Richard Nephew, program director for Economic Statecraft, Sanctions, and Energy Markets at the Center on Global Energy Policy, and David Mortlock, partner and Chair of the Government ...
Mortlock, David, Nephew, Richard M.
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Grip and Grasp: Lizard Claw Inspired Robotic Manipulators

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Our study identifies the most effective lizard claw shape for use as an end effector in a bioinspired robotic manipulator. By examining key geometric features and combining them into comparative indices, the Crotaphytus collaris claw is found to be the best fit.
Hyeon Lee, Kate Douglas, Asyiah Bray, Andrea Rummel, Parvez Alam   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Washington’s game of ‘sanctions poker’ Russia awaits America’s decisions. OSW Commentary NUMBER 259 | 05.02.2018 [PDF]

, 2018
On 29 January, the administration of President Donald Trump sent Congress a batch of documents which provide the basis for a possible further expansion of sanctions against Russia: a report on the Russian business and political elite, and a report on the
Wiśniewska, Iwona
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State sanctions policy: Historical and legal review

RUDN Journal of Law
The sanctions practice of modern states is introducing increasingly sophisticated methods of political, economic, trade, organizational and legal restrictions, which constitute an institutional strategy of multi-vector impact on the "target state".
Aleksey A. Malinovsky, Elena N. Trikoz
doaj   +1 more source

Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag, Janina A. Hoffmann, Tim Rogers, Christian A. Yates   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

It’s complicated: a timeline of Australia–Iran relations in a historical perspective [PDF]

, 2013
This paper seeks to contextualise Australia’s bilateral relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations, and at a time when the potential for military conflict is escalating.It canvasses key milestones ...
Nina Markovic
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Bringing Effectiveness into the Debate: A Guideline to Evaluating the Success of EU Targeted Sanctions

Central European Journal of International & Security Studies, 2010
The relevance of international sanctions has increased since the end of the Cold War as states and international organisations have resorted to this foreign policy tool more frequently than in the past.
Francesco Giumelli
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Use of OSINT tools in the structure of the implementation of sanctions pressure by the EU and the USA against the Russian oil and gas sector

RUDN Journal of Economics
The relevance of the research topic is due to unprecedented sanctions pressure on Russian business and the improvement of sanctions policy tools by Western countries, namely the EU and the United States.
Dmitriy A. Medvedev, Anastasia E. Malykh
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Activation of ERBB4 Pathway Inhibits Pathological Transdifferentiation of Lung Epithelial Progenitors into CD66c+ Basal Cells in Severe Lung Injury

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In fibrotic distal lung regions, CD66c+ basal cells emerge as a pathological state. Using human distal lung organoids, this study identifies CD66c+ basal cells as a pro‐fibrotic state arising through transdifferentiation from secretory, AT2, and basal cells.
Kaijun Lin, Xinran Deng, Haonan Wang, Yamei Jiang, Jian Sun, Hailin Ding, Ming Ye, Xiaoting Wang, Yu Wang, Li Yuan, Zhenju Song, Xinhua Lin, Shenfei Sun, Ning Jiang   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source