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The Terrorist Attack in Kunming, China: Does It Indicate a Growing Threat Worldwide? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
At 9:00 pm on March 1, 2014, six men and two women, dressed in black and wielding knives, arrived at the Kunming train station, one of the largest in southwest China, and began slashing people at random. Before authorities could stop them, the assailants
Butterworth, Bruce R., Jenkins, Brian M.
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Taxonomic corrections and new records for vascular plants of Kyrgyzstan, 6

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, Volume 2025, Issue 9, September 2025.
A series of notes on taxonomy, nomenclature, morphology and distributions of native species of vascular plants in Kyrgyzstan is presented. Anaphalis roseoalba is treated as a synonym of A. virgata; Hippolytia herderi and H. megacephala are new synonyms of H. senecionis; Hippolytia darvasica and H. schugnanica are new synonyms of H. tomentosa; Campanula
Alexander N. Sennikov   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microstructure, Phase Components, and Tribological Properties of Al65Cu20Fe15 Quasicrystal Coatings Deposited by HVOF

open access: yesLubricants
Quasicrystalline coatings based on Al65Cu20Fe15 are of increasing interest as potential alternatives to conventional wear-resistant materials due to their unique structural and tribological properties.
Sherzod Kurbanbekov   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Old to New Colonial Dependencies: Public Perceptions of Chinese Surveillance Cameras in Central Asia

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 450-467, September 2025.
Abstract While a growing body of literature examines the role of Chinese surveillance cameras in the technological rivalry between China and the US, relatively little is known about how publics in the Global South perceive and respond to the growing presence of these technologies in their communities.
Jasmin Dall'Agnola
wiley   +1 more source

China`s xinjiang policy: an analysis based on the theory of relative deprivation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Xinjiang, which is China’s western province that comprised 18 percent of the country’s total land area and heavily populated by non-Han Chinese ethnic minorities, is a region increasingly beset by the problem of confrontation between two very distinct ...
Nur Shahadah Jamil,
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Advancements in Ambient Ionisation Mass Spectrometry in 2024: An Annual Review

open access: yesAnalytical Science Advances, Volume 6, Issue 1, June 2025.
ABSTRACT The introduction of ambient ionisation mass spectrometry (AIMS) is among the most important developments in analytical chemistry in recent years. Enabling the direct analysis of samples in their native state with neither sample preparation nor chromatographic separation provides chemical characterisation in a matter of seconds.
Alisha Henderson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Participation of Tatar intellectuals in cultural events in Turkestan (late 19th – early 20th centuries)

open access: yesИсторическая этнология
The article discusses participation of Tatar intellectuals in civil events in the Turkestan region in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. At that time, modernization movements in Turkestan were widely spread.
Abduvali A. Yuldashev
doaj   +1 more source

The role of Tatars in the introduction of theatrical art to Turkestan

open access: yesИсторическая этнология, 2020
Active participation of Tatars in the social-political and cultural life of Turkestan became noticeable in the second half of the 19th century. At that period, along with the jadididsm ideas, the art of “European theatre,” which was a novelty for the ...
Risligoy A. Rasulova
doaj   +1 more source

FROM ETERNITY TO APOCALYPSE: TIME, NEWS, AND HISTORY BETWEEN THE MUGHAL AND BRITISH EMPIRES, 1556–1785

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 201-228, June 2025.
ABSTRACT The eighteenth‐century origins of colonial orientalism in India spurred not just the translation of Indian texts but the production of interstitial histories, works that were forged in the intellectual culture of the Mughal Empire and created by individuals who explicitly sought to inform and influence their new colonial patrons.
Abhishek Kaicker
wiley   +1 more source

Buddhism in Central Asia and Russia: History and Present Stata

open access: yesПроблемы постсоветского пространства, 2020
The article considers the history of Buddhism in Central Asia and in Russia. It outlines the main periods of development and special features of Buddhism in the region, its influence on the local culture.
I. V. Kolosova
doaj   +1 more source

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