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Research Companion to Language and Country Branding
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Routledge Handbooks
, 2020 , Book chapter)
This is an introduction to the language and country branding volume. The aim of this chapter is to provide a critical overview of the sociolinguistic, linguistic anthropological, and discursive analytical research on ...
The foreign policies of the small Gulf states: An exception in small states' behaviours?
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This chapter discusses the emergence of the small Gulf States as small powers in the region and concludes by assessing the sustainability of the small Gulf States' foreign and security policies. Iran is the second regional ...
Small states in the Gulf
(
Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book reviews the theories of foreign and security policy analysis and the way they could be applied to small ...
Theories of small states' foreign and security policies and the Gulf States
(
Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
The interest in small states' foreign and security policies has been cyclical and is a reflection of the evolution of the international system. During the decolonization period between the 1950s and 1970s, the main interest ...
Charactertistics of preferred gait patterns: Considerations for exercise prescription
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Gait patterns have been widely studied in different fields of science for their particular characteristics. A dynamic approach of human locomotion considers walking and running as two stable behaviours adopted spontaneously ...
Sport and politics in the Arab world
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This chapter examines the interaction between sport and politics in the Arab World. In post-independence, in the 1950s and 1960s, sport was an arena for the consolidation of national unity, at least the way it was dened ...
The Arab region
(
Taylor and Francis
, 2017 , Book chapter)
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Sport and development in Qatar: International and regional dynamics of sport mega-events
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Taylor & Francis
, 2021 , Book chapter)
Since winning the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar has been under the spotlight, responding to criticism regarding the working conditions of workers involved in the construction of football stadia and other ...
Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) as a Platform for Modeling Arrhythmias
(
Springer Nature
, 2022 , Book chapter)
Cardiac arrhythmias can arise due to a host of both genetic and acquired factors. Specifically, the genetic basis of arrhythmogenesis is not fully understood due to the lack of robust models that reliably recapitulate human ...
What is a Snow Leopard? Taxonomy, Morphology, and Phylogeny
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2016 , Book chapter)
The snow leopard is the smallest member of the genus Panthera and is the sister species to the tiger (Panthera tigris). It has a poor fossil record, although a recent discovery in Tibet suggests this lineage could be at ...