In response to the recently rising number of academic papers that empirically examine local variances in China’s Belt and Initiative (BRI) projects various foreign lands, this paper points out tension between attempts theorize BRI projects. The Sino-localized approach assemblage theory were two main used by scholars from disparate disciplines conceptualize agency understand how conditionalities...

This article first demonstrates the natural potential of renewable energy development in BRI countries; second, Rising Power Framework is introduced to investigate improvement brought by for host countries. Finally, political and economic challenges as well those caused COVID-19 pandemic are also identified. The review shows that project indeed improved countries, while scale development, espec...

The article discusses the increasing roles of Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) EU investment policies in Asia development. During past decades, China has increased their positions global with strategic plan to facilitate regional country development Asia. also a long history assisting countries achieve involved assistance projects raise countries’ levels. With two sides world- EU, there are coop...

The main purpose of this work was to describe and validate a new methodology for the determination brandy reactivity index (BRI) towards flavan-3-ol compounds in wines (catechins condensed tannins) correlate with amount type aldehydes present those brandies. This method consists two reactions: a) ability react C8 and/or C6 positions phloroglucinol ring catechin excess (A ring); b) further react...

Trade facilitation is essential to lowering overall trade costs and increasing economic returns on both the multilateral regional levels. also an integral part of agreements has become important component Belt Road Initiative (BRI). This paper adopts a time-varying stochastic frontier gravity model inefficiency assigns values different provisions construct relevant indicators assess impacts Wor...

Interleavers for Unpunctured Symmetric Turbo Codes Johann A. Bri a Dept. Comms. & Computer Eng. University of Malta Msida MSD 06, Malta E-mail: [email protected] Victor Buttigieg Dept. Comms. & Computer Eng. University of Malta Msida MSD 06, Malta E-mail: [email protected] Abstract | The Turbo code interleaver design problem is considered for relatively large block sizes, where the e ect ...

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), labelled as the world's largest infrastructure program, has so far directed investments mainly to energy transportation networks in Asia, Middle East, Africa. Since its launch, BRI changed significantly terms of scale, stakeholders, investment sectors continues evolve, also light COVID-19 crisis. However, far, there is no systematic comprehensive analysis...