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Un‐Fare: “Local” Share‐Auto Rickshaw Drivers and the Work of Belonging in the Midst of Urban Change in India's “IT Capital”

open access: yesCity &Society, Volume 34, Issue 2-3, Page 149-173, August/December 2022., 2022
Abstract In Bengaluru, India's “IT capital,” global capital and processes of world city‐making valorize specific kinds of work and workers as “formal” while categorizing others as “informal,” “chaotic” and “unregulated.” This article draws attention to the work of share‐auto rickshaw driving among local men from formerly farmland‐owning households in a
Jananie Kalyanaraman
wiley   +1 more source

Designing “Korean” Kimchi: Speculative Configuration of Distance and Commodity Value in the Chinese Kimchi Industry

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Chinese kimchi industry, manufacturers employ product names, photographs, and logistical strategies to promote their kimchi's “Koreanness.” So, what makes their kimchi “Korean,” and how does its Koreanness formulate kimchi's commodity value?
Heangjin Park
wiley   +1 more source

Early use of the reinforced concrete in the architecture of the Historicism in Austria–Hungary

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract The study examines the early incorporation of reinforced concrete in the architecture of Historicism in Austria–Hungary. Spanning the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the research illuminates the period's stylistic pluralism and the transformative impact of reinforced concrete.
Éva Lovra, Zoltán Bereczki
wiley   +1 more source

Predictors of support for biodiversity loss countermeasure and bushmeat consumption among Vietnamese urban residents

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, Volume 4, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
People perceiving environmental degradation, and losses of economic growth, nature‐based recreation opportunities, health, and knowledge as consequences of biodiversity loss were more likely to support the prohibition of illegal wildlife consumption. People consuming bushmeat frequently and supporting the biodiversity loss preventive measure seemed to ...
Minh‐Hoang Nguyen, Thomas E. Jones
wiley   +1 more source

A deep architecture for unified aesthetic prediction [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2017
Image aesthetics has become an important criterion for visual content curation on social media sites and media content repositories. Previous work on aesthetic prediction models in the computer vision community has focused on aesthetic score prediction or binary image labeling.
arxiv  

THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE IN CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION: SECURING THE METRO RAILWAY AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

open access: yesThe Journal of Intelligence, Conflict and Warfare
On November 13, 2023, Chief Officer Dave Jones presented The Role of Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure Protection: Securing the Metro Railway and Public Transportation for this year’s West Coast Security Conference.
Dave Jones
doaj   +1 more source

Les couleurs de Moscou et de Saint-Pétersbourg

open access: yesBulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2002
Moscow and Saint Petersburg experienced similar evolutions in colour, but the differences in their plans, urbanity and cultural influences, and their alternating roles as capitals, determined the particularities of their palettes.
Andrey Efimov
doaj   +1 more source

Sensory Screens, Digitized Desires: Dancing Rasa From Bombay Cinema To Reality TV [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Bombay cinema incorporated songs, dances, choreography, staging, and costumes from a variety of traditional forms to mark a modern national identity. The pioneering figure for using dance in films was Uday Shankar in his experimental film Kalpana. Bombay’
Chakravorty, Pallabi
core   +2 more sources

Visually-aware Recommendation with Aesthetic Features [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2019
Visual information plays a critical role in human decision-making process. While recent developments on visually-aware recommender systems have taken the product image into account, none of them has considered the aesthetic aspect. We argue that the aesthetic factor is very important in modeling and predicting users' preferences, especially for some ...
arxiv  

The political aesthetic of the British city‐state: Class formation through the global city [PDF]

open access: yesConstellations, 2018
A critical analysis of the strategic reconfiguration of social relations in the British state.
openaire   +2 more sources

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