“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
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Remote Performance Evaluation of High-Precision Timekeeping Systems Based on BDS Real-Time PPP. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Yang X, Zhang X, Wu J, Guo J.
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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Cut through the noise: vocal signals and auditory processing vary along an urbanization gradient in Pacific treefrogs. [PDF]
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav PhysiolSchwartz CF, Haslett TR, Vélez A.
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History, EarlyView.Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Next-Generation Mars Network Position, Navigation, and Timing for Future Robotic and Human Explorers. [PDF]
J Astronaut SciRybak M, Ely T, Gustafson E.
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.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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Joint Optimization of Time Slot and Power Allocation in Underwater Acoustic Communication Networks. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Geng X, Hu Y.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.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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Design, Development, and Laboratory Validation of a Low-Cost Multi-Sensor System for Bridge Structural Health Monitoring with Scour-Related Environmental Sensing. [PDF]
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