The high synthesis demand from upstream industries requires the development of new methods that produce fluorine and chlorine-containing compounds. To this end, a catalytic strategy was developed to achieve the insertion ...

The rise of China has brought about changes in the balance of power in Southeast Asia, and the realist approach to foreign policy cannot explain why some Southeast Asian countries are balancing the increasing economic and ...

This dissertation concerns moral, social, and political recognition, specifically the social practices of its exchange. I argue that recognition is a good that regularly, for reasons integral to the need for recognition ...

This dissertation aims at problematizing and deconstructing the sunnah-bidʿah dichotomy, by reconstructing its early history. Bidʿah (religious innovation) in Islamic thought is conceptualized in opposition to sunnah, which ...

While there is rich literature on the ways in which economics, politics, and space impact gender relations in Morocco, the question of how these roles are performed in emerging courtship practices has yet to be explored. ...

Current measures for assessing the viability of donor kidneys offered for transplant are lacking. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) can image subsurface tissue morphology to supplement current measures and potentially ...

How effective are anti-money laundering approaches to combat rampant illegal logging and forest destruction in Southeast Asia. In 2017, every second across the world, an area of forest more than the size of a football field ...

Despite severing official ties in 1979, Taiwan’s relationship with the United States remains robust. However, little research has been done into the methods Taiwan employs to maintain the support of the United States, which ...

The issue of southern Thailand becoming the next battleground for international jihadist terrorist organizations—such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or Jemaah Islamiyah—has reemerged as a prominent ...

Chinese economic development has undergone significant changes in the past several decades. When China first joined the WTO and announced its “Going out” policy in the early 2000s, increasing the role of the market was ...