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Some states are often labeled as "weak" or "failed". In David Samuels's words "...a failed state occurs when sovereignty over claimed territory has collapsed or was never effectively at all". [141] Authors like Samuels and Joel S. Migdal have explored the emergence of weak states, how they are different from Western "strong" states and its consequences to the economic development of developing countries. Talking to Thaler also teleports you away, but south into the Loggers' Hut outside the city walls and the coordinates are a bit broken, resulting in the conversation taking place "inside" the hut walls. Supersolid: similar to a superfluid, a supersolid can move without friction but retains a rigid shape. The department provides two separate online mapping systems that operate as a repository of Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping layers kept, prepared or sourced by the state that have operation within the Queensland planning system. State Planning Policy Interactive Mapping System and Development Assessment Mapping System

Importantly, Tilly makes the case that war is an essential part of state-making; that wars create states and vice versa. [32]

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The particles can now move from their fixed positions, and the substance changes state. First from solid to liquid, then if we continue heating to raise the temperature and break the remaining bonds between particles, from liquid to gas.

String-net liquid: Atoms in this state have unstable arrangements, like a liquid, but are still consistent in the overall pattern, like a solid. A gas is usually converted to a plasma in one of two ways, either from a huge voltage difference between two points, or by exposing it to extremely high temperatures. Heating matter to high temperatures causes electrons to leave the atoms, resulting in the presence of free electrons. This creates a so-called partially ionised plasma. At very high temperatures, such as those present in stars, it is assumed that essentially all electrons are "free", and that a very high-energy plasma is essentially bare nuclei swimming in a sea of electrons. This forms the so-called fully ionised plasma. Most often, a country has a single state, with various administrative divisions. It is a unitary state or a federal union; in the latter type, the term "state" is sometimes used to refer to the federated polities that make up the federation. (Other terms that are used in such federal systems may include " province", " region" or other terms.) Another commonly accepted definition of the state is the one given at the Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States in 1933. It provides that "[t]he state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states." [37] And that "[t]he federal state shall constitute a sole person in the eyes of international law." [38] David Chalmers; David Manley; Ryan Wasserman (2009). Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology. Oxford University Press. pp.378–. ISBN 978-0-19-954604-6. Archived from the original on 17 September 2014.Historically, the distinction is made based on qualitative differences in properties. Matter in the solid state maintains a fixed volume (assuming no change in temperature or air pressure) and shape, with component particles ( atoms, molecules or ions) close together and fixed into place. Matter in the liquid state maintains a fixed volume (assuming no change in temperature or air pressure), but has a variable shape that adapts to fit its container. Its particles are still close together but move freely. Matter in the gaseous state has both variable volume and shape, adapting both to fit its container. Its particles are neither close together nor fixed in place. Matter in the plasma state has variable volume and shape, and contains neutral atoms as well as a significant number of ions and electrons, both of which can move around freely. Apart from the above mentioned three, there are 2 more states of matter which we do not see in our everyday life. They are Plasma& Bose-einstein condensate.

Hay, Colin (2001). Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy. New York: Routledge. pp.1469–1474. ISBN 0-415-14532-5. Archived from the original on 3 May 2016. To move ahead with the plan, go to Radovid's ship nearby and speak with the guard. Radovid is reluctant to believe it as many others have tried to give him false information about Philippa Eilhart's whereabouts, which he had dealt with brutally. Presented the ring though proves decisive and Radovid mobilizes his men to the bridge, taking the witcher with him. The most commonly used definition is by Max Weber [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] who describes the state as a compulsory political organization with a centralized government that maintains a monopoly of the legitimate use of force within a certain territory. [4] [5] Weber writes that the state "is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory." [21] Marx's early writings portrayed the bourgeois state as parasitic, built upon the superstructure of the economy, and working against the public interest. He also wrote that the state mirrors class relations in society in general, acting as a regulator and repressor of class struggle, and as a tool of political power and domination for the ruling class. [112] The Communist Manifesto claims the state to be nothing more than "a committee for managing the common affairs of the bourgeoisie." [109] 160 - very modest (71%) Close to absolute zero, some liquids form a second liquid state described as superfluid because it has zero viscosity (or infinite fluidity; i.e., flowing without friction). This was discovered in 1937 for helium, which forms a superfluid below the lambda temperature of 2.17K (−270.98°C; −455.76°F). In this state it will attempt to "climb" out of its container. [14] It also has infinite thermal conductivity so that no temperature gradient can form in a superfluid. Placing a superfluid in a spinning container will result in quantized vortices.

To be granted the title of Jade Master and tasked with a mandate is to be granted authority that even a Dragon would hesitate to question. Antonio Gramsci believed that civil society is the primary locus of political activity because it is where all forms of "identity formation, ideological struggle, the activities of intellectuals, and the construction of hegemony take place." and that civil society was the nexus connecting the economic and political sphere. Arising out of the collective actions of civil society is what Gramsci calls "political society", which Gramsci differentiates from the notion of the state as a polity. He stated that politics was not a "one-way process of political management" but, rather, that the activities of civil organizations conditioned the activities of political parties and state institutions, and were conditioned by them in turn. [58] [59] Louis Althusser argued that civil organizations such as church, schools, and the family are part of an "ideological state apparatus" which complements the "repressive state apparatus" (such as police and military) in reproducing social relations. [60] [61] [62] In regular cold matter, quarks, fundamental particles of nuclear matter, are confined by the strong force into hadrons that consist of 2–4 quarks, such as protons and neutrons. Quark matter or quantum chromodynamical (QCD) matter is a group of phases where the strong force is overcome and quarks are deconfined and free to move. Quark matter phases occur at extremely high densities or temperatures, and there are no known ways to produce them in equilibrium in the laboratory; in ordinary conditions, any quark matter formed immediately undergoes radioactive decay.

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Light slows down as it passes through a BEC helping scientists to study more about the nature of light as a wave and particle. The target settlement (tier 3+ province capital) is declared a Commercial District, gaining improved effects from the settlement buildings and all Infrastructure and Resource buildings