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Won and Collapsed: The Real Cause of the USSR's Triumph and Collapse in Space Exploration

This work is a philosophical and essayistic exploration in which the history of the space age, the cultural memory of the 20th century, and language are approached as a unified field of meaning. The author proposes an interpretation of civilizational development through the categories of vertical and horizontal movement, as well as through symbolic ...
openaire   +1 more source

PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN AUTOCRACIES: Conflicting Logics, Unintended Consequences and Contentious Participation in Angola's Orçamento Participativo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Participatory institutions are no longer confined to liberal democracies as autocrats around the world experiment with ‘authoritarian participation’. This also applies to the most successful democratic innovation of recent decades: participatory budgeting (PB).
DANIEL TJARKS
wiley   +1 more source

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

Exporting Socialist Health Care: Soviet Humanitarianism in the Global South. [PDF]

J Contemp Hist
Hearne S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Revisiting the Political Economy of Agriculture in 21st Century Food Systems

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1932, Joseph Duncan argued in the Journal of Agricultural Economics that agricultural economists should engage more explicitly with politics. Nearly a century later, the political economy of food and agriculture has expanded in both scope and complexity.
Danielle Resnick, Johan Swinnen
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of applied foot and mouth disease-providing measures in the Republic of Armenia: A retrospective study. [PDF]

Open Vet J
Voskanyan HE, Markosyan TH, Simonyan JT, Mirzoyan MS, Shahazizyan NA, Minasyan LM, Kharatyan SA, Simonyan LL.   +7 more
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New PMCT multi‐indicator ossification standards for age estimation of the knee in modern Australian and North American children

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Skeletal age estimation is crucial to medicolegal work, aiding subadult identification, and living age assessments in legal contexts. This study aims to document the ontogeny of knee skeletal indicators on post‐mortem computed tomography (PMCT), and quantify interpopulation variation between modern American and Australian children.
Taliah Swart, Clair Alston‐Knox, Samantha K. Rowbotham, Soren Blau, Nicolene Lottering   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Increased methane emissions from oil and gas following the Soviet Union's collapse. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
He TL, Boyd RJ, Varon DJ, Turner AJ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Is the Association between Suicide and Unemployment Common or Different among the Post-Soviet Countries? [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022
Seksenbayev N, Inoue K, Toleuov E, Akkuzinova K, Karimova Z, Moldagaliyev T, Ospanova N, Chaizhunusova N, Dyussupov A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fallow Fields, Falling Incomes: The CAP 2023–2027 Framework in the Italian Cereal Sector Champs en jachère, revenus en baisse : Le cadre de la PAC pour 2023–2027 dans le secteur céréalier italien Brachliegende Felder, sinkende Einkommen: Die GAP 2023–2027 im italienischen Getreidesektor

EuroChoices, EarlyView.
Summary Analysis of recent Eurostat data shows a progressive decline in EU cereal production. While cultivated acreage has contracted steadily since 2013, the most severe output reduction occurred during 2022–2024, driving a surge in import volumes. This is mirrored in Italy, exposing systemic vulnerabilities within high‐value agri‐food supply chains ...
Emanuele Spada, Fabian Capitanio, Giacomo Falcone, Giovanni Gulisano, Anna Irene De Luca   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source