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"Terrorism as a Global Wave Phenomenon: Religious Wave" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Akamatsu Waves" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Terrorism as a Global Wave Phenomenon: Anarchist Wave" published on by Oxford University Press.

In 1937, the Japanese economist Kaname Akamatsu discovered specific links between the
rise and decline of the global peripheries. Akamatsu's theory of development describes
certain mechanisms whose working results in the narrowing of the gap between the level
of development of the economy of developing and developed countries, and, thus, in the
re-structuring of the relationships between the global core and the global periphery.
Akamatsu developed his model on the basis of his analysis of the economic development
of Japan before World War II, with a special emphasis on the development of the Japanese
textile industry. Akamatsu's catch-up development includes three phases: import of
goods, organization of the production of previously imported products, and export of
those goods. This model proved to be productive for analyzing the development of many
other developing countries, especially in East Asia, making the theory of flying geese
popular among the economists of these countries, as well as the whole world. The "flying
geese" model produces certain swings that may be denoted as Akamatsu waves.
Akamatsu waves may be defined as cycles (with a period ranging from 20 to 60 years)
that are connected with convergence and divergence of core and periphery of the World
System in a way that explains cyclical upward and downward swings (at global and
national levels) in the movements of the periphery countries as they catch up with the
richer ones.

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This article proposes a rereading of the timeline of the British Black Arts Movement, and offers early work by the Pakistan-born British artist, writer, and editor Rasheed Araeen as possible starting points for reading the work of a new generation of artists who emerged in the early 1980s. Making Waves draws attention to a work by Araeen, For Oluwale, which commemorated the racist killing by police officers of David Oluwale, a Nigerian vagrant persecuted in Leeds, England, during the mid-1960s, leading to his death in 1969. While proposing a radical new timeline, the article also concedes that "beginnings are notoriously unstable things."

Note: This is a preprint of paper #1914 presented at the 14th European Wave & Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC) 2021 in Plymouth, UK. The final version of paper with the same title can be found in the EWTEC 2021 proceedings. Abstract: Lift-based Wave Energy Converters (WECs) have a number of attractive features, including the potential for unidirectional rotation, simplifying power take-off and reduction in wave loads by reducing generation of circulation, increasing survivability. The common assumption of small body, small amplitude response, together with the Haskinds Relationship is used to determine the optimum motion for a lift-based WEC to maximise power capture. It is shown that whilst for a 2D hydrofoil in deep water the optimum motion is circular, the optimum motion for a finite-width hydrofoil is generally elliptical due to differences in the hydrodynamic damping coefficients associated with the vertical and horizontal motions of the hydrofoil. It is shown that more circular hydrofoil motion can be achieved by utilising the elliptical motion of the water particles in shallow water. This occurs because the increased horizontal water particle motion in shallow water results in an increase in the wave-induced lift force associated with horizontal fluid particle motions, and thus a reduction in the optimum amplitude of motion in this direction. Preliminary calculations suggest that for a 30 metre wide hydrofoil in wave periods of about 10 seconds, the ideal water depth (where the optimum hydrofoil motion is circular) occurs at around 25 metres, which is a highly utilisable water depth. Other advantages of deployment in shallower water include an improvement in the alignment of the waves parallel to the hydrofoil and a reduction in the structural task associated with reacting against the seabed. ; This work was produced as part of the LiftWEC Project. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 851885. This output ...

Abstract. In past decades theoretical studies have been carried out with the double aim of improving knowledge of the main characteristics of the rogue wave and of attempting to predict its sudden appearance. We have tried to generate rogue waves in a water wave tank, using a symmetric spectrum (Akhmediev et al., 2011a) as input on the wave maker. The next step has been to apply a theoretical model to the amplitude envelope of these waves. After some considerations we agreed the best model to be an analog of the Ginzburg–Landau equation.

New Waves in Ethics brings together the leading future figures in ethics broadly construed, with essays ranging from meta-ethics and normative ethics to applied ethics and political philosophy. Topics include new work on experimental philosophy, feminism, and global justice, incorporating perspectives informed from historical and contemporary approaches alike. An ideal collection for anyone interested in the most important debates in ethics and political philosophy, as well as those with an interest in the latest significant contributions from the leading new generation of philosophers working in ethics.