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Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Radar Spoofing [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
Electronic countermeasure (ECM) technology plays a critical role in modern electronic warfare, which can interfere with enemy radar detection systems by noise or deceptive signals. However, the conventional active jamming strategy incurs additional hardware and power costs and has the potential threat of exposing the target itself.
arxiv  

Defined‐benefit pension plan funding: Does managerial ability matter?

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the impact of managerial ability on defined‐benefit pension plans in US firms and find that plan funding levels increase with their sponsors' managerial ability. The finding is robust to various model specifications and control for endogeneity.
Surendranath Rakesh Jory   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption? Such campaigns use messaging about how people typically behave (descriptive norms) or ought to behave (injunctive norms). Drawing on survey and lab experiments in Ukraine, we unpack and evaluate the distinct effects of these two types of social norms.
Aaron Erlich, Jordan Gans‐Morse
wiley   +1 more source

Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Smart Sensing Applications. [PDF]

open access: yesSensors (Basel), 2023
Chien YR   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Empirical realism and democratic equality

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, empirical political scientists have challenged presuppositions about voter behavior that they take to be widespread in normative democratic theory, charging that democratic theory is unmoored from empirical reality. For their part, many normative democratic theorists have rejected empiricists’ characterizations of their subfield and ...
Emma Saunders‐Hastings
wiley   +1 more source

La femme fait la maison: The Accumulation of Surplus Value through Family Planning in Burkina Faso1

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract Since the 1960s, demographers, international donors, and governments have calculated the political, economic, and social benefits of modern contraception usage in West Africa. We evidence how family planning technologies (FPTs) that are tethered to population development extract double value (productive and reproductive labour) from Burkinabè ...
T.D. Harper‐Shipman, Katian Napon
wiley   +1 more source

Capturing Extraction: Geology, Photography, Industry and Institutional History in the Bingley Archive

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, EarlyView.
Godfrey Bingley was a British industrialist who took up geology, photography and travel in the 1880s. His photographs are housed at the University of Leeds, where he worked with its Chair of Geology. This article analyses the archive's projection of the imperial geological imaginary that emanated from Britain and extended to the Americas.
Rebecca Jarman
wiley   +1 more source

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