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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Flapping-wing robot achieves bird-style self-takeoff by adopting reconfigurable mechanisms. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Chen A, Song B, Liu K, Wang Z, Xue D, Qi H.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sustainable Development Goals Applied to the Maritime Transportation Sector: Setting Sail for the Future

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims to eradicate poverty, protect the environment, and promote prosperity through 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Achieving these goals requires a multi‐sectoral approach. Maritime transportation, vital to the global economy, significantly contributes to several SDGs and plays a strategic ...
Cátia Sousa, Ana Brasão, Tiago Silva, Stanislau Tserashkovich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A blended modeling framework for real-time design and verification of safety-critical embedded systems. [PDF]

PLoS One
Awan MM, Anwar MW, Butt WH, Azam F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Market Integration and Nonlinear Price Transmission in 19th‐Century British Wheat Markets

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Important developments in infrastructure and institutions characterized 19th‐Century wheat markets in Great Britain. Among these developments was the construction of the national rail system which enabled cheaper and more efficient transport of grain and other bulky cargoes between inland towns and ports.
Barry K. Goodwin, A. Ford Ramsey
wiley   +1 more source

Fuzzy energy management using a chaotic model to improve fuel consumption of fuel cell-battery hybrid fixed-wing UAVs operating under uncertainty control. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Rostami M, Habibi P, Farajollahi A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Dutch dilemma: Housing prices and flood risk exposure

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article studies the impact of flood risk exposure on housing prices in a major river delta. Analyzing 1.8 million property transactions from 1998 to 2023 in the Netherlands, we find an average price discount of 1.1%. We observe considerable heterogeneity in price effects driven by exposure intensity, institutional settings that vary ...
Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok, Philibert Weenink   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Continental outflow shapes the circum-Antarctic pattern of summertime atmospheric mercury depletion zones. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Xie Z, Yue F, Angot H, Zhan H, Liu H, Tian B, Dommergue A, Magand O.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Dual‐Use Conundrum of the Lisbon Treaty Regarding Space Governance: Solutions Through International Legal Interpretation?

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An inherent divide features within the Lisbon Treaty between civilian and military/security competences; something previously more obvious via the ‘pillar system's’ separations. This division follows the Member States (MS) (natural) protection of their military/defence autonomy; their core sovereign powers.
Charlie J. P. Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

AttentionDriveNet: Fusion of deep cognitive network with Attention modeling for robust navigation in Self-driving vehicles. [PDF]

PLoS One
Mishra S, Mohata R, Tripathy HK, Mohanty JR, Sahoo KS, Jhanjhi NZ, Alourani A.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source