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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING. [PDF]
Bull New Ser Am Math Soc, 2006 Angenent S, Pichon E, Tannenbaum A.
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Public good and the practice of private land conservation
Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Adam K. Janke
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Network Structure and the Efficiency Gains from Mergers: Evidence from U.S. Freight Railroads
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The trade‐off between market power and efficiency gains is central to antitrust analyses of mergers, but empirical evidence quantifying efficiencies remains limited. Using transaction‐level data from U.S. freight railroads (1985–2005), this article quantifies merger‐induced cost efficiencies, driven mainly by eliminating inter‐railroad ...
Yanyou Chen
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Carney's Davos Address and the (Contested) Re‐Imagining of Middle Powers
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By privileging the intervention of Canada's prime minister, Mark Carney, in his January 2026 Davos address, the work aims to re‐engage with the debate around middle powers extending from academic scrutiny to instrumental practice. On core themes, Carney's address provides exceptional focal points pertaining to the role of this category of ...
Andrew F. Cooper
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The Continuity and Rupture of the ‘New Washington Consensus’: From Biden to Trump 2.0
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The ‘New Washington Consensus’ (NWC) represents a major intellectual shift in the US approach to global economic governance. However, the NWC has never been subject to systematic academic critique. With Trump's return to the White House ushering in a new era of US trade policy, the NWC is widely considered to be politically irrelevant in the ...
Ming Du
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Maximizing eDNA detections of rare marine organisms: A case study of a delphinid species
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Environmental DNA (eDNA) is an emerging tool for surveying marine organisms. Advances in molecular assay designs and bioinformatic methods provide new opportunities for detecting rare species; however, overcoming methodological challenges of rare species detection remains an important obstacle for the widespread deployment of eDNA methods for ...
Nastassia V. Patin +12 more
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Estimating absolute DNA abundance from replicated metabarcoding
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Datasets derived from mixed‐template DNA amplification and sequencing (‘metabarcoding’) are common in environmental DNA (eDNA), microbiome or microbial ecology analyses. Such metabarcoding data have been broadly used to inform estimates of biodiversity, distribution and abundance across a wide range of species and habitats.
Andrew Olaf Shelton +6 more
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Exceptional Circumstances: Electoral Boundary Conflict in Canada's Territories
Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates why electoral districting, which across most of Canada was reformed by the “electoral boundary revolution,” is instead increasingly fraught in two northern jurisdictions, the Northwest Territories and Yukon. While independent electoral‐boundary commissions and judicial rulings have depoliticized and professionalized ...
Aaron John Spitzer
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NAADF: Globally Illuminated Voxel Worlds Accelerated with Nested Axis‐Aligned Distance Fields
Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Abstract Achieving realistic rendering of 3D scenes in real time using path tracing is challenging due to the high sample count required, with ray tracing as the bottleneck. Focusing on voxels as a geometry representation offers significant opportunities for optimizations, especially for tracing the rays, but also for computing the samples.
A. Ulschmid +4 more
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