India will walk fine line on China-Taiwan issue

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Type ◽  
Fine Line ◽  
Taiwan Issue

Headline INDIA/CHINA: India will walk fine line on Taiwan

McConnell will tread fine line over US COVID aid

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fine Line

Headline UNITED STATES: McConnell will tread fine line over aid

Prospects for South-east Asia to end-2019

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fine Line ◽  
Islamist Terrorism

Subject Prospects for South-east Asia to end-2019. Significance The 34th ASEAN Summit in Thailand later this month will outline the challenges facing South-east Asia in the second half of this year. While the regional body looks to step up economic cooperation, there are signs of a rising security threat from Islamist terrorism. More generally, much of the region now treads a fine line between democracy and authoritarianism.

Pakistan will walk a fine line in outreach to Riyadh

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Type ◽  
Fine Line

Headline PAKISTAN: Outreach to Riyadh will involve fine balance

Trump risks serious rift with China over Taiwan

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Taiwan Issue ◽  
President Elect ◽  
Nationalist Sentiment ◽  
Political Unification ◽  
Policy Priority ◽  
Taiwan Policy

Subject US Taiwan policy. Significance US President-elect Donald Trump has suggested that Washington could fundamentally alter its policy on Taiwan, implying movement towards recognising Taipei as a sovereign state. The 'Taiwan issue' has little resonance in US politics but huge resonance for Beijing, whose top foreign policy priority is to prevent other governments from recognising Taiwan as a sovereign state and manoeuvre Taiwan into accepting full political unification with China. Impacts In attempting to influence US-Taiwan relations, Beijing will prefer to apply pressure on Taipei rather than Washington. China's leadership may feel they must take risks in order to mollify nationalist sentiment at home. Nothing at present suggests that war is a plausible scenario.

Multilayer thick-film ceramic for multichip modules with laser microvias

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-163
Author(s):  
Sebastian Löffler ◽  
Christopher Mauermann ◽  
Angela Rebs ◽  
Günter Reppe
Keyword(s):  
Thick Film ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Temperature Stability ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Multichip Modules ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fine Line ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Product Lifetime ◽  
Aerospace Medical

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to show up the current possibilities by combination of classic thick-film technology with advanced processing. Thick-film hybrid ceramic substrates have been a base for highly reliable devices for space, aerospace, medical and industrial applications since many years. The combination of classic thick-film printing with advanced technologies for fine line structuring provides substrates best suited for packaging solutions with challenging requirements, such as temperature stability and extended product lifetime. Combined with state of the art assembly technologies, thick-film substrates are used in highly demanding industries. Design/methodology/approach In recent years, several technologies for fine line structuring have been introduced, e.g. fine line printing, photo imaging, etching, laser structuring for local chip fan-out or fine line structuring on single layers. For further miniaturization of thick-film multilayers circuits, after solving the fine line resolution, the reduction of electrical connection of conductive layers through printed insulation/dielectric layer (via) diameters to connect the layers should be addressed. Findings The focus of this paper is to show the results of combining fine line structuring with laser microvias and to compare laser drilling in thick-films with different established via forming technologies. Originality/value The reduction of via size to 60 µm – smaller than 50% compared to using state-of-the-art printing technologies enables a solution for significant relaxation of current design possibilities.

Opposition treads fine line on Thai charter referendum

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Type ◽  
Fine Line

Headline THAILAND: Opposition treads fine line on charter vote

scholarly journals Friend or foe? Exploring the fine line between Pseudomonas brassicacearum and phytopathogens

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
April S. Gislason ◽  
Teri R. de Kievit
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Plant Pathogens ◽  
Growth Promotion ◽  
Physiological State ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fine Line ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Fitness Advantage ◽  
Single Organism ◽  
Pseudomonas Brassicacearum

Pseudomonas brassicacearum is one of over fifty species of bacteria classified into the P. fluorescens group. Generally considered a harmless commensal, these bacteria are studied for their plant-growth promotion (PGP) and biocontrol characteristics. Intriguingly, P. brassicacearum is closely related to P. corrugata , which is classified as an opportunistic phytopathogen. Twenty-one P. brassicacearum genomes have been sequenced to date. In the current review, genomes of P. brassicacearum and strains from the P. corrugata clade were mined for regions associated with PGP, biocontrol and pathogenicity. We discovered that ‘beneficial’ bacteria and those classified as plant pathogens have many genes in common; thus, only a fine line separates beneficial/harmless commensals from those capable of causing disease in plants. The genotype and physiological state of the plant, the presence of biotic/abiotic stressors, and the ability of bacteria to manipulate the plant immune system collectively contribute to how the bacterial-plant interaction plays out. Because production of extracellular metabolites is energetically costly, these compounds are expected to impart a fitness advantage to the producer. P. brassicacearum is able to reduce the threat of nematode predation through release of metabolites involved in biocontrol. Moreover this bacterium has the unique ability to form biofilms on the head of Caenorhabditis elegans, as a second mechanism of predator avoidance. Rhizobacteria, plants, fungi, and microfaunal predators have occupied a shared niche for millions of years and, in many ways, they function as a single organism. Accordingly, it is essential that we appreciate the dynamic interplay among these members of the community.

The More Control, the Better?

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeeyun Oh ◽  
Mun-Young Chung ◽  
Sangyong Han
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Design ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Story Structure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
High User ◽  
User Control ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Control Versus ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Despite of the popularity of interactive movie trailers, rigorous research on one of the most apparent features of these interfaces – the level of user control – has been scarce. This study explored the effects of user control on users’ immersion and enjoyment of the movie trailers, moderated by the content type. We conducted a 2 (high user control versus low user control) × 2 (drama film trailer versus documentary film trailer) mixed-design factorial experiment. The results showed that the level of user control over movie trailer interfaces decreased users’ immersion when the trailer had an element of traditional story structure, such as a drama film trailer. Participants in the high user control condition answered that they were less fascinated with, absorbed in, focused on, mentally involved with, and emotionally affected by the movie trailer than participants in the low user control condition only with the drama movie trailer. The negative effects of user control on the level of immersion for the drama trailer translated into users’ enjoyment. The impact of user control over interfaces on immersion and enjoyment varies depending on the nature of the media content, which suggests a possible trade-off between the level of user control and entertainment outcomes.

GREEN OPEN ACCESS IN KENYA: A REVIEW OF THE CONTENT, POLICIES AND USAGE OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-54
Author(s):  
Wanyenda Leonard Chilimo
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Current State ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

 There is scant research-based evidence on the development and adoption of open access (OA) and institutional repositories (IRs) in Africa, and in Kenya in particular. This article reports on a study that attempted to fill that gap and provide feedback on the various OA projects and advocacy work currently underway in universities and research institutions in Kenya and in other developing countries. The article presents the findings of a descriptive study that set out to evaluate the current state of IRs in Kenya. Webometric approaches and interviews with IR managers were used to collect the data for the study. The findings showed that Kenya has made some progress in adopting OA with a total of 12 IRs currently listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and five mandatory self-archiving policies listed in the Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP). Most of the IRs are owned by universities where theses and dissertations constitute the majority of the content type followed by journal articles. The results on the usage and impact of materials deposited in Kenyan IRs indicated that the most viewed publications in the repositories also received citations in Google Scholar, thereby signifying their impact and importance. The results also showed that there was a considerable interest in Swahili language publications among users of the repositories in Kenya.

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