Part design is the principal source of communicating intent to manufacturing and inspection. Design data are often communicated through computer-aided (CAD) systems. Modern analytics tools artificial intelligence integration into have significantly advanced machine recognition specification constraints. These algorithms require be uniformly structured easily consumable; however, represented in ...

This is a response to Luca Tomini's “Don't think of wave!” and Svend-Erik Skaaning's “Waves autocratization democratization”. With this rejoinder we make three arguments: First, the question how global waves shape processes regime transformations now more urgent than ever. Since 1994, civil liberties political rights one third population have been substantially increasingly reduced due autocrat...

This study draws on a rigorous systematic review—to our knowledge the first in this area—to take stock of literature aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid—especially democracy aid—have positive impact democracy? How? What factors most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus ‘democracy aid’ as an aggregate category, subcomponents (e.g. to elections), ‘develop...