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Book Review: Joseph G. Bocks 'The Technology of Nonviolence: Social Media and Violence Prevention'
Journal of Hate Studies, 2013 In the wake of the 2009-2012 Arab Spring proteststhe first large- scale wave of Arab demonstrations in the Internet agemany pondered the significance of the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the movement.
Tyler Branson
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Decoding Spatial Heterogeneity and Multi‐Omics Regulation with Hierarchical Graph Learning
Advanced Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent advances in spatial multi‐omics technologies have enabled the simultaneous profiling of multiple molecular layers within the same tissue slice, providing unprecedented opportunities to investigate tissue spatial organization. However, most existing computational methods identify spatial domains in a purely data‐driven manner, rarely ...
Jiazhou Chen +6 more
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POST “ARAB SPRING” SAUDI ARABIA: INTERNAL POLITICAL PROCESS AND POSSIBLE REFORMS
Сравнительная политика, 2015 This article attempts to systematize analytical information on the “Arab Spring” in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The author specifies causes of the public outcry, goals of the opposition groups along with the consequences of the “Arab Spring” for ...
N. A. Gasymov
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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The Arab Spring – Implications for the Russian Federation
International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, 2018 The Arab Spring led to a major transformation of political systems of the region’s most countries; an increase in the significance of radical Islam in the political life; a degradation of the security environment.
Andrzej Stopczyński
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Book review: optimism about the Arab Spring has gone too far [PDF]
, 2012 Violence and political instability remain across Tunisia, Egypt, and the Arab region as old regimes continue to be challenged by protesters seeking justice and fresh elections. In After the Arab Spring, John R.
Partridge, Matthew
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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Political and Socio-Economic Roots of Uprisings in the Arab World
Space and Culture, India, 2020 The purpose of the research is to determine the political and socio-economic roots of the Arab spring and define its consequences. The article demonstrates similar and distinct features of revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries.
Gaziza Kurpebayeva
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, 2016 We investigate the impact of global and local crises on bank stability and examine the effect of owning bank subsidiaries in other countries. We consider banks from MENA countries which experienced both types of crises during our sample period.
Alraheb, Tammuz, Tarazi, Amine
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Assessing the influence of the Responsibility to Protect on the UN Security Council during the Arab Spring [PDF]
, 2016 This article challenges those perspectives which assert first, that the Security Council’s engagement with the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) during the Arab Spring evidences a generally positive trend, and second, that the response to the Arab Spring ...
Aidan Hehir +15 more
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