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2008 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal
Radiation Burn will be a two channel video installation exposing the hoax of the "dirty bomb." While incendiary weapons are used in Iraq for the sole purpose of creating fear, symbolic boogey men are used to create fear on the home front.
Spelletich, Kal, Kurtz, Steve
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Summary Tropical peatlands are critical for climate mitigation due to their dual role as major carbon sinks and methane sources. In rainforests, high and stable rainfall supports peat accumulation in tropical climates. However, groundwater‐fed peatlands in seasonally dry tropical ecosystems remain poorly understood, despite their potential importance ...
Larissa S. Verona +11 more
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Effects of mass casualty incidents on anxiety, depression and PTSD among doctors and nurses: a systematic review protocol. [PDF]
Uddin H, Hasan MK, Castro-Delgado R.
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Summary Plant water storage contributes to transpiration, but it is unclear how its relevance in supporting transpiration depends on the stringency of stomatal regulation. Here, we show the compounding effect of stomatal regulation and hydraulic capacitance on plant water use, by means of a soil–plant hydraulic model and measurements of leaf water ...
Stefano Martinetti +3 more
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Jared Perry, a notable Afro-American heart surgeon, vacations on a luxury cruise liner seeking solace and healing. He recently became distraught over the death of a patient that resembled his young daughter, Nia.
Middlebrook, Mark Douglas
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Love him for the enemies he has made: Signaling by inflammatory pro‐gun rhetoric
Abstract American politics is rife with messages designed to anger one's political enemies. In this paper, we propose and test a model suggesting that such inflammatory messages are effective because they signal that the messenger is unwilling to compromise with the groups they have offended.
Sosuke Okada, Nicholas Buttrick
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Dirty Bombs: The Threat Revisited
Nuclear radiation, invisible and detectable only with special instruments, has the power to terrify—in part because of its association with nuclear weapons—and to become an instrument of terrorists.
Loeb, Cheryl, Zimmerman, Peter D.
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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Short Abstract This article develops the concept of ‘evictability’—the potential of eviction—as a lens for relational comparison of housing insecurity in cities undergoing rapid urbanisation. ‘Evictability’ has advantages over ‘displaceability’, we argue, because it does not meld residents' fears of coerced loss of home with presumptions about ruptured
JoAnn McGregor +4 more
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Użycie Sił Zbrojnych Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej odbywa się zgodnie z "Planem użycia oddziałów i pododdziałów Wojsk Lądowych w przypadku wystąpienia sytuacji kryzysowych".
Pich, R., Maciejewski, P.
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