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Democracy as pothole repair: Civic applications and cyber-empowerment in Russia
The article examines the phenomenon of so-called civic apps, applications for smartphones and web largely used by Russian social movements in their fight against corruption, roads in poor condition, street faults and other public problems.
Ksenia Ermoshina
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Aggregate Interference Modeling in Cognitive Radio Networks with Power and Contention Control [PDF]
In this paper, we present an interference model for cognitive radio (CR) networks employing power control, contention control or hybrid power/contention control schemes.
Chen, Zengmao+8 more
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Study of some contention techniques for gathering tarantula venom [PDF]
The study of various types of venom has become a priority in the last years for medical sciences and biology Tarantula venoms represent a natural wealth of combinations of chemical compounds that attract more and more attention of pharmacologists.
Diana Cimpian+2 more
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MARACAS: a real-time multicore VCPU scheduling framework [PDF]
This paper describes a multicore scheduling and load-balancing framework called MARACAS, to address shared cache and memory bus contention. It builds upon prior work centered around the concept of virtual CPU (VCPU) scheduling.
Cheng, Zhuoqun+3 more
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This article inquires into the specificity of Jewish attitudes toward Christian power in the Grand-Duchy of Tuscany and is meant to reconstruct the history of legal contentions between Jews and Christians during the second half of the 18th century ...
Davide Mano
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IEEE 802.15.4 standard is specifically designed for a low-rate and low-processing Internet of things (IoT) applications and offers guaranteed time slots.
Sangrez Khan+5 more
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Holistic assessment of call centre performance
In modern call centres 60–70% of the operational costs come in the form of the human agents who take the calls. Ensuring that the call centre operates at lowest cost and maximum efficiency involves a trade‐off of the cost of agents against lost revenue ...
Edward A. Smith, John A. Schormans
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Unlikely Friends of the Authoritarian and Atheist Ruler: Religious Groups and Collective Contention in Rural China [PDF]
This article examines the roles played by rural religious groups in China's local contentious politics. More specifically, it aims to explore whether religious groups stimulate or reduce collective contention when the ruler is both authoritarian and ...
Adriance+35 more
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J'ai pu constater au sein de mon équipe, que la contention physique passive, est une proposition quasi systématique evoqué par l'equipe pour répondre aux problèmes de chutes causés par la perte d'autonomie.
Magnolia Ouriques de Oliveira
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Contention of Meaning in WhatsApp Cultural Group A Semantic Cognitive Analysis
The discourse of interpersonal communication in social media group contains of turn adjacency and simultaneous feedback of communication. Especially in WhatsApp group, the model of communication constructs a discourse by using a certain ideological mode ...
Afdhal Kusumanegara+3 more
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