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Actors and repertoires of contention [PDF]
, 2016 Industrial mining is currently one of the fastest growing sectors of the world economy, particularly in the Global South. The present mining boom is, however, accompanied by numerous conflicts: conflicts over labour relations, over territorial control ...
Engels, Bettina
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Aggregate Interference Modeling in Cognitive Radio Networks with Power and Contention Control [PDF]
, 2010 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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Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks [PDF]
SIGMOD Conference, 2018 Distributed transactions on high-overhead TCP/IP-based networks were conventionally considered to be prohibitively expensive and thus were avoided at all costs.
Erfan Zamanian +3 more
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Democracy as pothole repair: Civic applications and cyber-empowerment in Russia
Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace, 2014 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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Study of some contention techniques for gathering tarantula venom [PDF]
Medicamentul Veterinar, 2018 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]
, 2016 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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L'Atelier du CRH, 2015 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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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2020 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
IET Networks, 2017 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]
, 2015 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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