The role of sports mega-events in China’s unique soft power strategy
This article investigates the contribution of states’ soft power strategies to the process of East Asia’s increasing global economic and political significance.
Joonoh Jeong, Jonathan Grix, Louis Grix
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Wearable Haptic Feedback Interfaces for Augmenting Human Touch
The wearable haptic feedback interfaces enhance user experience in gaming, social media, biomedical instrumentation, and robotics by generating tactile sensations. This review discusses and categorizes current haptic feedback interfaces into force, thermal, and electrotactile stimulation‐based haptic feedback interfaces, elucidating their current ...
Shubham Patel+3 more
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The Main Approaches to the Study of Soft Power in the Domestic Political Science
The article is devoted to the identification of main approaches to soft power in Russian political science. The author analyzes the structural, process-oriented, measuring-instrumental and technological approaches.
D.M. Kovba
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Anomalous dimension of subleading-power N-jet operators
We begin a systematic investigation of the anomalous dimension of subleading power N-jet operators in view of resummation of logarithmically enhanced terms in partonic cross sections beyond leading power.
Beneke, Martin+3 more
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A PSpice-compatible model of PWM IC for switching power converters with soft-start characteristic [PDF]
Fu-Yuan Shih+3 more
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The Emerging 4D Printing of Shape‐Memory Thermomorphs for Self‐Adaptative Biomedical Implants
4D printing enables the creation of smart implants that adapt to changing conditions in the human body over time. At the core of this technology are shape‐memory thermomorphs (SMTMs). This review offers an in‐depth analysis of 4D printing with SMTMs, emphasizing the latest advancements in smart materials, stimuli, programming principles, and their ...
Aixiang Ding, Fang Tang, Eben Alsberg
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Electricity pricing in China and the role of the state [PDF]
Theoretical and empirical evidence is presented to show that inefficient power firms in China are subsidised by the state through the ability to charge high electricity prices and the creation of a “soft price constraint” on cost.
Birne, J, Liu, GS, Zhang, L
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This study presents a novel approach to designing and fabricating high‐porosity 3D‐printed scaffolds using a customized resin. Scaffold geometry, cellular interactions, and mechanical properties are analyzed to demonstrate these engineered bone models.
Sera Choi+6 more
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Developing a 'soft power' strategy in Africa [PDF]
China’s highly touted development strategy, the “Belt and Road” initiative, is based on the land-based Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the parallel Maritime Silk Road (MSR).
Goncalves, Marcus
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Beyond Organisational Borders: The Soft Power of Innovation in the Health Sector Comment on "What Managers Find Important for Implementation of Innovations in the Healthcare Sector - Practice Through Six Management Perspectives". [PDF]
Costa CM.
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