THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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Continuous-Variable Quantum Secret Sharing Through Microwave-Enabled Turbulent Channels with Measurement-Device-Independent Scheme. [PDF]
Zhang W, Liang Z, Mao Y, Zhang H, Guo Y.
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Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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Secure Cooperative Communications in 6G Networks: A Constrained Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Framework with Hybrid Action Space. [PDF]
Tian X, Wang Z, Ni Y.
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Why We Shouldn't Trust Institutions: Critical Theory and the Case for Radical Distrust
Constellations, EarlyView.
Zohreh Khoban
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ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Case Report: The SIX Cs model integrating empathy: a structured cognitive framework for psychological first aid during acute threat. [PDF]
Farchi MU, Shlezinger T.
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Tax cuts and tax compliance: evidence from grants to Green municipalities
Abstract This work examines whether a reduction in a salient local tax can increase tax compliance. To achieve identification, we leverage a quasi‐natural experiment occurring in Italy: since 2016, a regional law has granted a reduction in the waste tax burden for inhabitants of municipalities with an efficient waste collection system.
Pasquale Giacobbe +3 more
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CATO: Wake-Up reCeiver-bAsed communicaTiOn for Batteryless Devices. [PDF]
Mosavat S +4 more
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Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence
Abstract Focusing on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we examine how sibling relationships—one of the most salient familial bonds—influence individual engagement in violence during mass atrocity. Drawing on an adaptation of differential association and social learning theories for contexts of mass atrocity, we analyze a novel dataset linking over 300,000 ...
Jack G. R. Wippell +3 more
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