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Illicit Markets and Violence in Afghanistan: Avenues for Understanding the Use of Targeted Violence and its Implications in Afghan Illicit Economies

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2023
Afghanistan experienced a marked rise in violent crimes, including kidnappings and armed robbery in 2021. The reported increase in targeted attacks against civilians in the country, specifically regarding women human rights defenders and media workers ...
Ana Paula de Carvalho Oliveira
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Slow theory : taking time over transnational democratic representation [PDF]

, 2004
The possibility for transnational democratic representation is a huge topic. This article is restricted to exploring two unconventional aspects. The first concerns 'the representative claim', extending one critical part of previous analysis of the ...
Biermann, F., Dingwerth, K.
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Transnational social capital: the socio‐spatialities of civil society [PDF]

, 2020
Civil society remains a contested concept, but one that is widely embedded in global development processes. Transnationalism within civil society scholarship is often described dichotomously, either through hierarchical dependency relations or as a more ...
Abrahamsen R., Barbados Advocate, Beckles H., Bourdieu P., Brizan G., Comaroff J., Della Porta D., Edwards M., Edwards M., Featherstone D., Ferguson J., Gilroy P., Hall S., Hashemi S., Herod A., Hinds-Harrison K., Keck M., King R., Lewis V., Mamdani M., Massey D., Massey D., Massey D., Massey D., Mawdsley E., Moloney M., Mosse D., Murray Li T., Nurse K., Obadare E., Payne A., Piper N., Pugh J., Pugh J., Putnam R., Steele B., Tvedt T., Urry J., Van Rooy A.   +38 more
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Quality assurance in transnational higher education : a case study of the tropEd network [PDF]

, 2013
Transnational or cross-border higher education has rapidly expanded since the 1980s. Together with that expansion issues on quality assurance came to the forefront.
Dardis, Lorraine, Peterhans, Bernadette, Scherpbier, Albert, Zwanikken, Prisca A. C.   +3 more
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Improved Haptic Linear Lines for Better Movement Accuracy in Upper Limb Rehabilitation

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, 2012
Force feedback has proven to be beneficial in the domain of robot-assisted rehabilitation. According to the patients' personal needs, the generated forces may either be used to assist, support, or oppose their movements.
Joan De Boeck, Lode Vanacken, Sofie Notelaers, Karin Coninx   +3 more
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Lex Lata comes with a Date; or, What Follows from Referring to the “Tallinn Rules”

AJIL Unbound, 2019
At first sight, the question that Dan Efrony and Yuval Shany ask in their article, A Rule Book on the Shelf?, makes sense. If a group of lawyers writes a legal manual for state legal advisors, the logical follow-up question would indeed be, do they use ...
Lianne J.M. Boer
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Institutional legacies in TNCs and their management through training academies: the case of transnational law firms in Italy [PDF]

, 2012
This paper highlights the effects of heterogeneous institutional contexts on transnational professional service firms, a relatively understudied issue.
Abel, Alvesson, Bartlett, Beaverstock, Beaverstock, Berlinguer, Brenner, Christopherson, Coe, Costas, Covaleski, Culpepper, Currah, Delmestri, Faulconbridge, Faulconbridge, Faulconbridge, Faulconbridge, Ferner, Flood, Flood, Foucault, Gertler, Hall, Jones, Jones, Jones, Kärreman, Lawyer, Malatesta, Micelotta, Morgan, Morgan, Morgan, Mueller, Osiel, Quack, Trigilia, Whitley, Wrigley   +39 more
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Label-Free Imaging of Umbilical Cord Tissue Morphology and Explant-Derived Cells

Stem Cells International, 2016
In situ detection of MSCs remains difficult and warrants additional methods to aid with their characterization in vivo. Two-photon confocal laser scanning microscopy (TPM) and second harmonic generation (SHG) could fill this gap.
Raf Donders, Kathleen Sanen, Rik Paesen, Eli Slenders, Wilfried Gyselaers, Piet Stinissen, Marcel Ameloot, Niels Hellings   +7 more
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Fulfilling the Promise of Palermo? A Political History of the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021
UNTOC created a legally binding instrument governing international cooperation between law enforcement and judicial authorities to share evidence and pursue international criminal actors, and a framework for countries to update their legislation to be ...
Ian Tennant
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Revelations of the World: Transnationalism and the Politics of Perception in Papua New Guinea [PDF]

, 2014
Like many over the past century, people in the Yopno Valley of Papua New Guinea have experienced a burgeoning of connections with people across great geographical distances.
Slotta, James
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