...This chapter reviews briefly the theory of the Anderson localisation of electrons. In disordered materials at low temperatures, quantum interference may lead to the suppression of diffusion. If this occurs, the material becomes an insulator at zero temperature and zero frequency even though...

... Ukraine United Nations Akaev Askar President Kyrgyzstan Gumilev Lev Rahmon Emomali President Tajikistan sovereignty Central Asia localisation authoritarianism postcolonialism The current political, historical, and cultural Zeitgeist is centred on a reconsideration...

... with the ‘2023 Industry and Technology Strategy’ that aimed to cut the current account deficit with end-to-end localisation in key sectors and raise the share of high-tech exports. In 2021 a Green Deal Action Plan and a National AI Strategy were released. However, the implementation and effectiveness...

... away from the studio to Hong Kong’s mean streets and by the increasing return of Cantonese (after a brief disappearance of the language in the early 1970s), these films were prime participants in the localisation of Hong Kong cinema. This chapter also asks why the modern Hong Kong crime film came...

... the housing needs of different social groups. Additionally, the development of rural housing and the needs of land-losing farmers are presented. The impact of housing reforms on the well-being of citizens is then considered. Housing development in China has focused on marketisation and localisation. Housing...

... Theatre Academy Beijing Dance Academy Family The Xiaozhong Xu China Western musical theatre Chinese musical theatre musical theatre education localisation We Young People Nowadays (1982) The Piano in the Factory (2012) Musicals are just one of the many products that have been imported since...

... Entertainment’s practice of regional localisation of its hit comedy Miss Granny (2014). The chapter also considers the resurgence of the omnibus film as a production practice targeted towards regional audiences. CJ Entertainment Hepburn Audrey Miss Granny Soosanghan Geunyeo Hwang Dong hyuk...

... servants; localisation and citizens' empowerment; the management of risk; promoting innovation; the use of research and expert advice; and the implications of outsourcing services to the private and voluntary sectors and the parameters that should be observed. ‘Big Society’ Cameron David coalition...

... reinvestment’ Lacey Nicola ‘later modernity’ as policy context Loader Ian localised service delivery media partnership working Police and Crime Commissioners police and policing Sparks Richard Breaking the cycle green paper Cameron David consultation evidence based policy and crime prevention...

... responsible for formulating strategy. It analyses three inter-related issues that were discussed in the Sino-Portuguese Joint Liaison Group: the localisation of language, civil service and the law. Consensus was a safe way of avoiding public dissension with China, allowing the Portuguese politicians to convey...

...This chapter investigates ‘the turn to the local’ in UK social policy, drawing on the concept of ‘governance’. It regards this move towards the self-governance of local neighbourhoods as a genuine, yet contradictory, process. It observes that for New Labour, this process of ‘localisation’ is driven...

...This conclusion draws out the main findings of the book and discusses them in relation to both the analytical perspectives that provided the framework of the book and the political contexts that frame the everyday lives of Iraqi women in Denmark. It starts by outlining the processes of localisation...

... ‘effective control’ de jure control de facto control State agent authority control over an area extraterritorial responsibility attribution positive obligations duty of care omission attribution common organ State agent delegation of power de-localisation As established in Part I , measures...

..., in principle, we should be able to endorse or reject on substantive grounds. Mooreanism is therefore in at least some respects, inferior to value dualism. The arguments focus on the so-called ‘localisation manoeuvre’, which Mooreans tend to employ in order to argue that they can in fact make sense of some uses...

..., but rather criticises the view that neuroscience is the only means to study mental disorder. psychopathology neuroscience Jaspers psyche soma pluralism Griesinger localisation Meynert Wernicke Engstrom E J Fulford K W M Griesinger W Clinical Psychiatry in Imperial Germany Engstrom historical...

...This chapter examines the localisation of kaijū films and how the work of distributors shaped contemporary understandings of the kaijū eiga. It explores how films with giant monsters were adapted to fit other cinemas’ standards and became exploitation films...

..., the Japanese producers stripped back the meaning of this “American” hero and re-imagined Spider-Man as Japanese, indigenizing the character within a complex reciprocal chain of historical influence that ranged from America to Japan and then back again. Therefore, this chapter shows how localising Spider-Man...

... a process of localisation in Copenhagen, but they are not acknowledged as belonging there by the majority society. Public debates and political discussions leave little space for the Iraqi women to develop a sense of belonging to Danish society. The chapter points to the discrepancies between the politics...

... between personal social services and community social work. This is hardly surprising given the widespread use of the term ‘community’ to signify approaches to practice that are responsive to local context. Notions of partnership and localisation of service are hallmarks of so-called community-oriented...

... Transport for London TfL TranSys Serco Žižek S Ryrie Rules Semperian austerity agenda private financing London's localisation welfare privatisation The governance of London has long been an issue of contention and subject to upheavals, shifting logics and competing ideological projects. The city’s...