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Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
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Du culte aux sanctuaires. Architecture religieuse dans l’Afrique romaine et byzantine
Calenda, 2013 En 2000, le Groupe de Recherche (GDR) « Cultes et sanctuaires de l’Afrique romaine et byzantine » réunissait pour quatre ans sous la direction de François Baratte des équipes de chercheurs travaillant sur l’Afrique antique, plus particulièrement sur l’actuelle Tunisie.
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Occlusion Handling using Semantic Segmentation and Visibility-Based Rendering for Mixed Reality
, 2017 Real-time occlusion handling is a major problem in outdoor mixed reality system because it requires great computational cost mainly due to the complexity of the scene.
Fukiage, Taiki +4 more
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Housing Since 1945: The Impact of Policy Change and Ideology
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Housing policy in England has undergone significant reform on several occasions since 1945. Consensus approaches in the late 1940s and 50s to build large numbers of council houses and new private homes gave way to more ideologically driven policies in the 1970s and 80s.
Tony Travers
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Architectural Education as a Field of a New Cult
Проект Байкал, 2010 Пожалуй, нет темы более туманной, чем архитектурное образование. История архитектуры свидетельствует, что чем меньше было архитектурного образования, тем лучше была архитектура. Едва ли в Древнем Египте существовало какое-то особое архитектурное образование.
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Recent scholarship has examined the informal activities of elites. While existing theories suggest that informality is a realm where the state guarantees unhindered access to land and property rights and, subsequently, citizenship entitlements for elites, they have yet to explain how affluent residents of informal colonies obtain citizenship ...
Vivek Mishra
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THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Investments in large‐scale climate infrastructures are central to emerging forms of climate urbanism. In Jakarta, flood protection infrastructures seek to protect the city from devastating flood events in anticipation of future catastrophes.
Sophie Webber, Wahyu Kusuma Astuti
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MAINTAINING RENTAL HOUSING AS AN ASSET: Exploring Institutional Investors in Sweden’s Rental Market
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Institutional investors have asserted significant power over rental markets across the transatlantic. However, their stronghold has been contested after rising interest rates in 2022. In this article I address the situated dimensions of the assetization of the built environment by examining the establishment of residential property investors ...
Jennie Gustafsson
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