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Soft Power and Great-Power Competition
, 2023 This open access book consists of essays selected from Joseph S. Nye, Jr.’s last three decades of writing and illustrate a variety of perspectives on the nature of power, the role of the United States in the world and US-China relations.
Nye, Joseph S.
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, 2022 Including a thorough literature review and a number of case studies referred to cultural institutions and organisations, this book sheds light on different usages of culture as a source of soft power. Through an innovative and interdisciplinary approach,
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Free versus purchased mosquito net ownership and use in Budondo sub-county, Uganda
Malaria Journal, 2018 Background While the distribution of mosquito bed nets is a widely adopted approach for malaria prevention, studies exploring how the usage of a net may be influenced by its source and other factors remain sparse. Methods A standardized questionnaire and
Patricia Moscibrodzki +5 more
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ChemElectroChem, 2022 Quinone‐based aqueous redox flow batteries (RFBs) have drawn much attention due to their high safety, two‐electron involvement, rapid reaction kinetics, property tunability, and potentially low cost.
Lixing Xia +6 more
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The library as soft-power actor: A review [PDF]
, 2022 This narrative review pursues an understanding of the relationship of libraries to the concepts of soft power and public and cultural diplomacy. The cross-disciplinary nature of the study required that the search approach include literature from both the
Bell, Emilia C., Kennan, Mary Anne
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Metal‐organic framework (MOF) thickness control for carbon dioxide electroreduction to formate
Carbon Neutralization, 2023 Decreasing particle size (like thickness) is a common strategy to enhance the activities of catalysts. In this work, we have synthesized two coppers, which are bismuth‐based metal‐organic framework (CuBi‐MOF) catalysts with different thicknesses (134.8 ...
Zhihao Nie +8 more
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MATEC Web of Conferences, 2015 The purpose of the research project is to design an aid decision-making system of dispatching and control integration that cooperates with expert judgments based on the data mining of equipment defects so as to improve the risk pre-warning and pre ...
Guo Hongzuo +4 more
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Nonlinear Stochastic Optimal Control Using Piezoelectric Stack Inertial Actuator
Shock and Vibration, 2020 An optimal control strategy for the random vibration reduction of nonlinear structures using piezoelectric stack inertial actuator is proposed. First, the dynamic model of the nonlinear structure considering the dynamics of a piezoelectric stack inertial
Q. F. Lü, X. F. Wang, K. Lu, R. H. Huan
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Understanding soft power discourse in the National Library of Australia [PDF]
, 2022 Purpose: This paper presents research that sought to understand how the National Library of Australia engages with soft power in its Annual Report 2019–20. Driving the analysis was the research question: How is soft power discourse reproduced and enacted
Emilia C. Bell, Bell, Emilia C.
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Materials & Design, 2023 Impedance-matching structures (IMSs) with low sound transmission loss (TL) are of great importance in engineering applications. Due to the limitations of the traditional research methods, the designs of the IMSs were usually empirically guided, e.g ...
Junjie Gu +4 more
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