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Who Holds in the Power in Soft Power?
Arts & International, 2016 This article explores the concepts of “soft power” and “cultural diplomacy” from both a theoretical perspective as well as thinking about how they manifest in practice. Britain is used as a case study to demonstrate how these terms have shifted in line with the advancement of neoliberal politics. Any belief in intercultural cooperation has been usurped
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‘Soft power is such a benign animal’: narrative power and the reification of concepts in Japan
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 2019 The purpose of this article is to analyse how the seemingly natural fit between Japan and the soft power concept has been possible despite the notorious vagueness of the concept and what the consequences of soft power’s reification are.
S. Winkler
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Comparative Study of Experimental Methods for Measuring Thermal Properties of 100Cr6 Steel Powders
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This study investigates the thermal properties of 100Cr6 steel in both bulk and powder forms. Measuring the very low thermal conductivity typically exhibited by powders poses significant challenges. To address this, two novel measurement techniques—temperature gradient and finite laser pulse response—are introduced and evaluated by comparison with the ...
Junsheng Zhuo +8 more
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Dynamic Actuator Selection and Robust State-Feedback Control of Networked Soft Actuators [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 The design of robots that are light, soft, powerful is a grand challenge. Since they can easily adapt to dynamic environments, soft robotic systems have the potential of changing the status-quo of bulky robotics. A crucial component of soft robotics is a soft actuator that is activated by external stimuli to generate desired motions.
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MGIMO Review of International Relations, 2014 The article analyzes different aspects of the "soft power" of Russia. The author affirms that in this field the country doesn't have well defined strategies policy. To Russia has the excellent potential for the promotion of its positive image. This potential is primarily due to the famous Russian science, literature, music and art.
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Soft power: the origins and political progress of a concept
Palgrave Communications, 2017 Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes one prefers, and that can be accomplished by coercion, payment, or attraction and persuasion. Soft power is the ability to obtain preferred outcomes by attraction rather than coercion or payment ...
J. Nye
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A figurational approach to soft power and sport events. The case of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. [PDF]
Front Sports Act Living, 2023 Næss HE.
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Key Trends and Insights in Smart Polymeric Skin Wearable Patches
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Intelligent polymers, which respond to various physical and biological stimuli, are explored for the development of skin wearable patches in biomedical applications. Smart polymers, also known as intelligent or stimuli‐responsive polymers, play a crucial role in the development of advanced wearable patches due to their versatility and softness.
Sergio J. Peñas‐Núñez +2 more
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CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF EU SOFT POWER
Сравнительная политика, 2018 The article is devoted to consideration of the specifi c «soft power» of the European Union. As the theoretical foundations of the study dedicated the American, Russian and European approaches to the essence and content of «soft power» of the state ...
P. I. Kasatkin, N. V. Ivkina
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The puzzle of the soft X-ray excess in AGN: absorption or reflection?
, 2005 The 2-10 keV continuum of AGN is generally well represented by a single power law. However, at smaller energies the continuum displays an excess with respect to the extrapolation of this power law, called the ''soft X-ray excess''.
Chevallier, L. +6 more
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