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An Overview of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks for the Existing Protocols and Applications
, 2010 Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of two or more devices or nodes or terminals with wireless communications and networking capability that communicate with each other without the aid of any centralized administrator also the wireless nodes ...
Al-Omari, Saleh Ali K., Sumari, Putra
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Earthquake research in China [PDF]
, 1975 A visit to China of an American seismological delegation, which took place October 5 to November 5, 1974, is covered in this report. The Americans were sponsored by the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (CSCPRC ...
Allen, Clarence R. +12 more
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Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.An experimental device for physical simulation of hydraulic fracturing, comprising: a load‐bearing mechanism with multiple interconnected plates that collectively form an sample chamber; a load‐generating mechanisms, with multiple load‐generating mechanisms arranged within the experimental chamber.
Delei Shang +5 more
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地震科学进展Against the backdrop of cultural and tourism integration, there is an urgent need to explore innovative paths to popularize science for earthquake prevention and mitigation.
Hongmei Li, Ning Liu
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Public Discourses about Teenage Pregnancy: Disruption, Restoration, and Ideology [PDF]
, 2012 Two recent incidents in the United States generated a wealth of public discourses about a particular reproductive health issue: adolescent childbearing.
Bute, Jennifer J., Russell, Laura D.
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Two Regimes of Waste and Value: ‘Post‐Disaster’ Landscapes in a New India
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this age of ‘disaster capitalism’, catastrophes are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘external’. They are political events mediating and vitally shaping the unequal and exploitative use of environmental resources. India's ‘post‐disaster’ landscapes at the turn of the new millennium powerfully demonstrate how visions of the new‐normal can be imposed in
Vasudha Chhotray, David Singh
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地震科学进展, 2020 The popular science lectures are one of the main methods for public education of earthquake prevention and disaster reduction. As an absolutely necessary part of popular science lectures for earthquake，the effect of the science lectures is directly influenced by the content，form and creation level of the popular science courseware.
Hongmei Li, Ning Liu
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Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara
The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti‐colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens ...
Joanna Allan, Moiti Mohamed Azrouk
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Welfare consequences of the compound risks of index insurance
Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract Index insurance is an attractive variant on the standard insurance contract that allows the determination of a loss event to be defined by one or more thresholds on an index that is positively correlated with actual losses. Index insurance also comes with a compound risk, basis risk.
Glenn Harrison +4 more
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