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Satellite Data Shows Resilience of Tigrayan Farmers in Crop Cultivation During Civil War [PDF]
Science of Remote Sensing (2024), 2023 The Tigray War was an armed conflict that took place primarily in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia from November 3, 2020 to November 2, 2022. Given the importance of agriculture in Tigray to livelihoods and food security, determining the impact of the war on cultivated area is critical.
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Post-war Civil War Propaganda Techniques and Media Spins in Nigeria and Journalism Practice [PDF]
, 2021 In public relations and political communication, a spin is a form of propaganda achieved through knowingly presenting a biased interpretation of an event or issues. It is also the act of presenting narratives to influence public opinion about events, people or and ideas.
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External Threats, Political Turnover and Fiscal Capacity [PDF]
Econ Polit. 2020; 32: 430-462, 2020 In most of the recent literature on state capacity, the significance of wars in state-building assumes that threats from foreign countries generate common interests among domestic groups, leading to larger investments in state capacity. However, many countries that have suffered external conflicts don't experience increased unity.
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Avoiding the Great Filter: A Simulation of Important Factors for Human Survival [PDF]
J Huma Soci Scie, 6(1), 33-54 (2023), 2022 Humanity's path to avoiding extinction is a daunting and inevitable challenge which proves difficult to solve, partially due to the lack of data and evidence surrounding the concept. We aim to address this confusion by addressing the most dangerous threats to humanity, in hopes of providing a direction to approach this problem.
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DoubleCheck: Designing Community-based Assessability for Historical Person Identification [PDF]
, 2023 Historical photos are valuable for their cultural and economic significance, but can be difficult to identify accurately due to various challenges such as low-quality images, lack of corroborating evidence, and limited research resources. Misidentified photos can have significant negative consequences, including lost economic value, incorrect ...
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Estimating the Effects of Syrian Civil War [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 We examine the effect of civil war in Syria on economic growth, human development and institutional quality. Building on the synthetic control method, we estimate the missing counterfactual scenario in the hypothetical absence of the armed conflict that led to unprecedented humanitarian crisis and population displacement in modern history.
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On War: The Dynamics of Vicious Civilizations [PDF]
Phys. Rev. E 54, 1274 (1996)., 1996 The dynamics of ``vicious'', continuously growing civilizations (domains), which engage in ``war'' whenever two domains meet, is investigated. In the war event, the smaller domain is annihilated, while the larger domain is reduced in size by a fraction $\e$ of the casualties of the loser.
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Russo-Ukrainian War: Prediction and explanation of Twitter suspension [PDF]
, 2023 On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting what is now known as the Russo-Ukrainian War, initiating an online discourse on social media. Twitter as one of the most popular SNs, with an open and democratic character, enables a transparent discussion among its large user base.
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Correlations and forecast of death tolls in the Syrian conflict [PDF]
Scientific Reports 7, 15737 (2017), 2016 The Syrian civil war has been ongoing since 2011 and has already caused thousands of deaths. The analysis of death tolls helps to understand the dynamics of the conflict and to better allocate resources to the affected areas. In this article, we use information on the daily number of deaths to study temporal and spatial correlations in the data, and ...
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Monitoring War Destruction from Space: A Machine Learning Approach [PDF]
, 2020 Existing data on building destruction in conflict zones rely on eyewitness reports or manual detection, which makes it generally scarce, incomplete and potentially biased. This lack of reliable data imposes severe limitations for media reporting, humanitarian relief efforts, human rights monitoring, reconstruction initiatives, and academic studies of ...
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