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Multiterminal High‐Voltage Direct Current Projects: A Comprehensive Assessment and Future Prospects

open access: yesHigh Voltage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multiterminal high‐voltage direct current (MT‐HVDC) systems are an important part of modern power systems, addressing the need for bulk power delivery and efficient renewable energy integration. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in MT‐HVDC technology, including launched projects and ongoing initiatives.
Mohammad Hossein Mousavi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk assessment and categorization of terrorist attacks based on the Global Terrorism Database from 1970 to 2020

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
Risk assessment and categorization of terrorist attacks can assist enhance awareness of terrorism and give crucial information support for anti-terrorism efforts.
Zonghuang Xu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the Long-run Impacts of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks on US Domestic Airline Travel [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Although the US airline industry began 2001 with 24 consecutive profitable quarters, including net profits in 2000 totaling $7.9 billion, the impact of the 9/11 event on the industry was substantial.
Blunk, Scott S.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
wiley   +1 more source

\u3ci\u3eWho\u3c/i\u3e Was Affected as the Economy Started to Slow? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
[Excerpt] The labor market weakened considerably between late 2000 and the third quarter of 2001. Overall employment growth slowed, large job losses occurred in manufacturing, and the unemployment rate rose by 0.8 percentage point, from 4.0 to 4.8 ...
Bureau of Labor Statistics
core   +1 more source

Back to the Future: Labour and the Politics of Financial Deregulation

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the professed aims of the current Labour government in the UK is to boost GDP by ‘cutting red tape’. This also applies to the financial sector, where in recent months regulators have been asked to reflect on how rule changes could contribute to competitiveness and growth. A flurry of deregulatory initiatives has resulted from this.
Nick Kotucha
wiley   +1 more source

The Fight against Terrorism in the European Union [PDF]

open access: yesRomanian Economic Journal, 2020
Since 11 September 2001when the terrorist attacks from USA happened, the whole world and the perspective about terrorism have changed. Unfortunately, the phenomenon of terrorism is evolving and the existing networks have strong financing, benefiting of ...
Mihaela-Sorina Dumitrescu   +2 more
doaj  

Universities, ‘Left Behind Places’ and the Making of a Moral Crisis

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Britain's universities face an acute financial and moral crisis. Once celebrated as engines of the knowledge economy and social mobility, they are now viewed increasingly with suspicion—criticised as elitist, self‐serving and detached from public needs.
Sarah Chaytor, John Tomaney
wiley   +1 more source

Refugee Policy after September 11: Not Much New

open access: yesRefuge, 2002
Conventional wisdom holds that the terrorist attacks of September 11 have “changed everything.” In the case of refugee policy, it would appear the salience of security and enforcement aspects has increased at the expense of human rights and humanitarian ...
Reg Whitaker
doaj   +1 more source

Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

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