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View article: Rethinking Europe’s Role in a Civilisational World: Geocultural Dialogue in the Age of BRICS+
Rethinking Europe’s Role in a Civilisational World: Geocultural Dialogue in the Age of BRICS+ Open
This paper examines the evolving geocultural dynamics between Europe and the emerging BRICS+ alliance, focusing on the rise of civilisational internationalism as a framework for global engagement. Against the backdrop of shifting United St…
View article: Civilisational Futures and the Role of Southeast Asia
Civilisational Futures and the Role of Southeast Asia Open
Southeast Asia has a distinct contribution to make in shaping how we understand civilisational legacies and their role in the affairs of the twenty-first century. It is a region where the past reveals the all-important social and political…
View article: State- and context-dependent robotic manipulation and grasping via uncertainty-aware imitation learning
State- and context-dependent robotic manipulation and grasping via uncertainty-aware imitation learning Open
Generating context-adaptive manipulation and grasping actions is a challenging problem in robotics. Classical planning and control algorithms tend to be inflexible with regard to parameterization by external variables such as object shapes…
View article: Introduction: theorising heritage for the seas
Introduction: theorising heritage for the seas Open
This Introduction makes the case for a more critical engagement with oceans and the maritime within critical heritage theory. We lay out a research agenda that more consciously foregrounds aquatic domains in debates about conservation, sov…
View article: From Hinduism to <i>Hindutva</i>: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO
From Hinduism to <i>Hindutva</i>: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO Open
This article considers civilizational politics at the interface between nationalism and internationalism. It does this by focusing on some key trends in India's engagements with UNESCO and its flagship conventions for culture. The article …
View article: Application and communication platform for smart grid automation
Application and communication platform for smart grid automation Open
The Machfu Gateway platform is built on a custom-curated industrialized version of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). AOSP is the basis for all Android consumer products and offers a complete set of network and protocol services for c…
View article: Decrease of anthropogenic emission from aviation and detection of natural hazards with potential application in geosciences using satellite sensors, ground-based networks and model forecasts in the context of the SACS/ALARM early warning system
Decrease of anthropogenic emission from aviation and detection of natural hazards with potential application in geosciences using satellite sensors, ground-based networks and model forecasts in the context of the SACS/ALARM early warning system Open
<p>Aviation safety can be jeopardised by multiple hazards arising from natural phenomena, e.g., severe weather, aerosols/gases from natural hazard, space weather. Furthermore, there is the anthropogenic emissions and climate impact o…
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New Mobilities in AsiaIn the 21st century, human mobility will increasingly have an Asian face.Migration from, to, and within Asia is not new, but it is undergoing profound transformations.Unskilled labour migration from the Philippines, C…
View article: Review forum reading Tim Winter's Geocultural Power: China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century, University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2019). 304 pp.; bibliog.; index. ISBN: 978-0-226-65835-3 US $27.50 (paperback).
Review forum reading Tim Winter's Geocultural Power: China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century, University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2019). 304 pp.; bibliog.; index. ISBN: 978-0-226-65835-3 US $27.50 (paperback). Open
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The Asian Migrant's Body New Mobilities in AsiaIn the 21st century, human mobility will increasingly have an Asian face.Migration from, to, and within Asia is not new, but it is undergoing profound transformations.Unskilled labour migratio…
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Cross-border Mobility New Mobilities in AsiaIn the 21st century, human mobility will increasingly have an Asian face.Migration from, to, and within Asia is not new, but it is undergoing profound transformations.Unskilled labour migration f…
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Cross-border Marriages and Mobility New Mobilities in AsiaIn the 21st century, human mobility will increasingly have an Asian face.Migration from, to, and within Asia is not new, but it is undergoing profound transformations.Unskilled labo…
View article: Thermal modernity and architecture
Thermal modernity and architecture Open
This paper develops the concept of thermal modernity in order to offer a more detailed understanding of air conditioning and the historical role it has played in transforming urban and built space. An analysis oriented by the insights of S…
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Migrants and Religious Experience New Mobilities in AsiaIn the 21st century, human mobility will increasingly have an Asian face.Migration from, to, and within Asia is not new, but it is undergoing profound transformations.Unskilled labour…