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Treading carefully through tomatoes: Embodying a gentle methodological approach
Area, EarlyView., 2020 This paper foregrounds moments that are quiet, slow, and tender in participatory research. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with gardeners who save seeds in the UK, it asks what a gentle methodological approach might look and feel like. It builds on feminist scholarship on bodies, slowness, and reciprocity, and argues a gentle approach is particularly
Laura Pottinger
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"Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats": The Art of Defeating Reactive Jammers in IoT Networks [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 In this article, we introduce a novel deception strategy which is inspired by the "Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats", one of the most famous military tactics in the history, in order to defeat reactive jamming attacks for low-power IoT networks. Our proposed strategy allows resource-constrained IoT devices to be able to defeat powerful reactive ...
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Within the extensive literature on the powers and constraints of British prime ministers, there has been little comparison of the extent to which the premiers themselves have perceived or projected a personal entitlement to determine government policy.
Archie Brown, Nicholas James
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Nomos aversion and the art of being somewhat governed among Jewish outpost settlers in the West Bank
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Abstract Since the mid‐1990s, in clandestine co‐operation with state agencies, West Bank settlers have been establishing what have become known as the illegal outpost settlements. These are typically rustic communities located deep inside the frontier.
Amir Reicher
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The artisanal underground: gold, subsistence, and subsurface materiality in Colombia
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Abstract This article focuses on subsurface materiality to explore how small‐scale gold miners in Colombia navigate formal politics. In much critical research, the underground appears as a space of great developmentalist ambition, whose resources enable corporate expansion and bureaucratic rule.
Jesse Jonkman
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What is offered by considering ageing, ethics, and intersectionality from a critical phenomenological perspective that draws upon critical race theory? Based upon an extended ethnography of African Americans raising children with illnesses and disabilities, I consider the Christmas trees that a grandmother lovingly decorated each year.
Cheryl Mattingly
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines the interplay of gender, emotions, and material culture in Jesuit conversion accounts in sixteenth‐century Japan. I analyse the rhetorical strategies of missionaries like Luís Fróis to better understand how conversion narratives were crafted to advance the Jesuits' goal of propagating Christianity in Japan and beyond.
Jessica O'Leary
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The King's Evil Without the King: The Royal Touch during the Interregnum
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how far, and in what ways, the traditional belief that English monarchs could cure scrofula (the “King's Evil”) by royal touch survived during the eleven years of the Interregnum (1649–1660). Charles I had been executed and the monarchy abolished, and Charles II was in exile for the vast majority of this period. It might seem that
David L. Smith
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A GAN-based Augmentation Scheme for SAR Deceptive Jamming Templates with Shadows
, 2023 Shinan Lang +5 more
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Game-Theoretic Analysis of Cyber Deception: Evidence-Based Strategies and Dynamic Risk Mitigation [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Deception is a technique to mislead human or computer systems by manipulating beliefs and information. For the applications of cyber deception, non-cooperative games become a natural choice of models to capture the adversarial interactions between the players and quantitatively characterizes the conflicting incentives and strategic responses.
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