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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Internal stability"”.
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The Impact of Foreign Aid on Internal Stability: A Case Study of Costa Rica and Venezuela
… the relationship between foreign aid and the internal stability of recipient countries. Foreign aid programs have been an important tool through which countries can receive support in development efforts. Through extensive case study and process tracing analysis of twelve foreign aid projects …
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Connecting Ireland and America: Early English Colonial Theory 1560-1620
… of these projects focused on the creation of internal stability rather than the mission to 'civilize' the natives. The continuity between these projects is examined on several points: the rhetoric the English used to describe the native peoples and the lands to be colonized, who initiated each …
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Human Rights Signaling and Foreign Direct Investments After Civil Wars
… Direct Investors (FDIs) about a country’s internal stability and environment for investments. I argue that signals are particularly salient in the information-poor environment that follows immediately after the civil war and that these signals can provide clues to various actors about …
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China's Education Reforms: Strategic Implications
… aspects of China's national power: its economy, internal stability, soft power, and military. In economic terms, China's economy stands to benefit by transitioning to a knowledge economy, possibly coming into competition with high technology industries in the U.S. China's growing number of …
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Causes of Lunda – Luvale conflict and why the problem still exists despite people trying to resolve it: a case of North-western province of Zambia.
… conflict can threaten and impact on Zambia’s internal stability; examine the extent the Lunda and Luvale ethnic conflict impact on the socio-economic activities of the communities involved; and to establish how the ethnic conflicts between the Lunda and Luvale of North Western province can be …
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Causes of Lunda – Luvale conflict and why the problem still exists despite people trying to resolve it: a case of North-western province of Zambia.
… conflict can threaten and impact on Zambia’s internal stability; examine the extent the Lunda and Luvale ethnic conflict impact on the socio-economic activities of the communities involved; and to establish how the ethnic conflicts between the Lunda and Luvale of North Western province can be …
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Theocratic Governance and Military Force Structure: Correlation Vs. Causation
… is the pressure of the international system and internal threats that have provided the impetus for the creation of these force structures. This is an important connection to explore in the context of renewed Islamic fundamentalism and the possibility that more and more nations will increase the …
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Control and design of flexible-link manipulators
… to track a desired trajectory while maintaining internal stability of a nominally unstable system. In this regard, motion control of structurally flexible robotic manipulators has drawn the attention of robotics researches in the past few years. These robots find applications in space, …
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Rites of conflict among North American Indians
… evidenced remarkable repetitiveness and internal stability for centuries. These ritual patterns of challenging and accepting the social structure, as reflected in its values, should interest behavioral science.
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Optimization methods for deadbeat control design: a state space approach
… transformation (LFT), the conditions for internal stability based on the notion of coprime factorization over the set of proper and stable transfer matrices, namely RH, is discussed. This leads to the derivation of the class of all stabilizing linear controllers, which are parameterized …
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Seafloor ploughmarks on the mid-Norwegian continental shelf reveal iceberg trajectories during the last glacial period
… continental margin, marine ice cliff instability (MICI) – the process by which very large ice shelves calve rapidly due to overcoming an internal stability threshold – is unlikely to have taken place.
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Regulation in Switched Bimodal Linear Systems
… in which the Q parameters are designed to yield internal stability and exact output regulation in the closed loop switched system. The proposed parameterized controllers are constructed mainly in two steps. The first step is based on constructing a switched observer-based state feedback central …
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Numerical Study and Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) Calibration for Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls
… for rupture and pullout limit states for the internal stability of steel and geosynthetic reinforced soil walls. These factors are developed for geosynthetic reinforced soil wall design using the current AASHTO Simplified Method, a new modified Simplified Method, and the recently proposed …
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Compliance and defiance in patron-client state relationships: a case study of Pakistan’s relationship with the united states, 1947-2013
… the client’s compliance and maintaining its internal stability. At the same time, as long as the patron’s own strategic interests necessitate a degree of client cooperation, it will find itself compelled to keep the relationship going, thereby giving the client continued room to deviate from …
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Compliance and defiance in patron-client state relationships: a case study of Pakistan’s relationship with the united states, 1947-2013
… the client’s compliance and maintaining its internal stability. At the same time, as long as the patron’s own strategic interests necessitate a degree of client cooperation, it will find itself compelled to keep the relationship going, thereby giving the client continued room to deviate from …
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Finite element analyses of cellular cofferdams
… cofferdam movements and determine potential for internal failure. The first of the objectives involves adding better bending elements to the program SOILSTRUCT to represent the sheet pile system In axisymmetric and plane strain analyses. Also, in the case of the plane strain program, a new method …
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The emotional experience of non-dominant (right) cerebral hemisphere stroke survivors: an existential Heideggerian exploration
… through one’s ability to maintain some level of internal stability through continuity and meaning and an attitude such that moving towards the future becomes possible. Whilst some results were consistent with the literature on stroke, the specific focus on emotional experience post right cerebral …
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Norms, self-interest and effectiveness: explaining double standards in EU reactions to violations of democratic principles in sub-Saharan Africa
… normative objectives (democracy, development and stability) and (2) expectations about the effectiveness of negative measures. These three explanatory factors (norms, self-interest and effectiveness) are investigated for ten case studies in sub-Saharan Africa: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Chad, …
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Exploring the Managerial Cycle of Professional Football League Managers in England and Norway
… the managerial cycle model by bringing in the internal (senior management and support staff) and external (Norwegian Football Association, League Managers’ Associations) key stakeholder views on the training, development and support of managers within the various phases of the managerial cycle …
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The Failure of the Proposed European Defense Community and Its Implications on the European Union's Pursuit of Strategic Autonomy
… was concerned about integration, maintaining internal stability, and helping its economy. The smaller countries of the Benelux were in favor of the EDC to maximize their influence. France would struggle over ratification. Pierre Mendès-France had to deal with external pressure to get the EDC …