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Imagining Prison: Culture, History, Space [PDF]
, 2010 In this article I explore the diverse ways in which stories of prison and punishment have been told in the literary and visual arts. Stories of crime and punishment are central to every society as they address the universal problem of human identity ...
Carrabine, E
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Broadcasting but not receiving: density dependence considerations for SETI signals
, 2009 This paper develops a detailed quantitative model which uses the Drake equation and an assumption of an average maximum radio broadcasting distance by an communicative civilization to derive a minimum civilization density for contact between two ...
Reginald D. Smith +3 more
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The As and Bs of titi monkey linguistics: why emotional communication is not the enemy
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The alarm call sequences of titi monkeys (genera Plecturocebus, Callicebus and Cheracebus) have sparked important debates over whether they exhibit parallels with human language. Some researchers consider these sequences to involve both semantics and syntax, while others argue that the sequences convey semantic information without syntax.
Mélissa Berthet +2 more
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CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This research focuses on addressing the privacy issues in healthcare advancement monitoring with the rapid establishment of the decentralised communication system in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). An integrated blockchain homomorphic encryption standard with an in‐build supervised learning‐based smart contract is designed to improvise ...
Chandramohan Dhasarathan +7 more
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Investing In Civilization [PDF]
This paper asks whether, and how, the state can solve the present crisis. The method of enquiry is to analyze what it did in the two comparable crises of 1893 and 1929.
Freeman, Alan
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Jumping the energetics queue: Modulation of pulsar signals by extraterrestrial civilizations
, 2014 It has been speculated that technological civilizations evolve along an energy consumption scale first formulated by Kardashev, ranging from human-like civilizations that consume energy at a rate of $\sim 10^{19}$ erg s$^{-1}$ to hypothetical highly ...
Chennamangalam, Jayanth +3 more
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From Ecosystem Threats to Balance Sheets: Biodiversity Risks Exposure and Corporate Cash Policies
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how firms strategically respond to biodiversity risk by examining their cash holding decisions. Using firm‐level data from China, we find that firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure significantly increases corporate cash holdings.
Jing Hao +4 more
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Civilization and the evolution of short sighted agents [PDF]
We model an assurance game played within a population with two types of individuals -- short-sighted and foresighted. Foresighted people have a lower discount rate than short sighted people. These phenotypes interact with each other.
Allen, Sam +2 more
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, 2018 The aim of this article is to contribute to the debate on global prosperity in the post-GDP world, with specific attention given to the political discourse and intellectual debate on ecological civilization in China.
M. Marinelli
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