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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

A rolling bearing life prediction method based on multi-task gated networks

Zhongguo Jianchuan Yanjiu
ObjectiveTo achieve the remaining life prediction of bearings in ship mechanical equipment, a multi-task gated networks prediction model based on the Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BiGRU), Variational Autoencoder (VAE), and Multi-gate Mixture-of ...
Liuyang SONG, Chuanhao ZHENG, Ye JIN, Tianjiao LIN, Changkun HAN, Huaqing WANG   +5 more
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Sixteen Years Later: Revisiting Cultural Complexes and the Roots of Archetypal Thematic Analysis (ATA)1

Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Written as a letter to my 28‐year‐old self, this paper explores the development of my engagement with cultural complexes. On August 18, 2009, I finished a chapter applying cultural complexes to a history of China, complete with elaborate charts that seemed to confirm a process by which cultural complexes are formed, and how China’s then recent
Kevin Lu
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental study on uniaxial compressive strength characteristics of conventional model ice in tank

Zhongguo Jianchuan Yanjiu
ObjectiveIn the ice-propeller milling or collision test, in order to accurately test the ice load of the propeller, it is very important to use model ice which satisfies similarity with the geometric and mechanical properties of real ice.MethodsUniaxial ...
Pei XU, Longhui LI, Chao WANG
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Vaccine Hunting: Balancing Strategic Independence, Cooperation and Multilateral Obligations in Scandinavian COVID‐19 Vaccine Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do states navigate the balance between multilateral obligations, bilateral cooperation and strategic independence during global crises? This article provides an in‐depth empirical analysis of the diplomatic efforts deployed by Denmark and Norway to secure vaccine access during the COVID‐19 pandemic.
Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée, Katerini Tagmatarchi Storeng, Adam Moe Fejerskov   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Task reliability evaluation method for autonomous intelligent system based on multi-agent approach

Zhongguo Jianchuan Yanjiu
Objective Aiming at the problem that the task reliability of autonomous intelligent systems is difficult to evaluate accurately due to such characteristics as the decoupling of components, changing systems, and complex fault propagation laws, this paper ...
Cheng YANG, Hongxiao LIU, Ying WANG, Jingli YANG   +3 more
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Coerced labour patterns in the Cape Colony, c. 1806–1826

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multiple forms of coerced labour co‐existed in the early 19th‐century Cape Colony. This study examines changes in coerced labour force composition. Using annual taxation and census records, we examine district‐ and household‐level changes in reported enslaved, Recaptured African and indigenous Khoesan labour.
Kate Ekama, Benjamin Crous
wiley   +1 more source

STag marking visual guidance method for USV docking

Zhongguo Jianchuan Yanjiu
ObjectiveAiming at the problem of accurate real-time pose acquisition in the autonomous recovery of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV), a STag marking visual guidance method for unmanned vehicle docking and recovery is proposed.Methods Due to the stable ...
Yongxin XIAO, Xianbo XIANG, Dian KONG, Lichun YANG, Shaolong YANG   +4 more
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

A Proposal to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals in the Luxury Fashion Industry

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The luxury industry stands at a crossroads between tradition and sustainability. The objective of this paper is to analyse the relationship and effects of the luxury fashion industry on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and identify opportunities to improve its management.
Alicia Parro‐Ruiz, María‐Sonia Medina‐Salgado, Marta Ortiz‐de‐Urbina‐Criado, María Torrejón‐Ramos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source