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E-bike: combining human and electric power

Contemporary Issues in Economy and Technology - CIET 2024 - conference proceedings
This paper presents an upgrade to a classic bicycle with an electric motor and a user authentication system. The upgrade consists of the following components: electric motor, ignition switch, display, accelerator, wheel speed sensor, lights, brake levers, and battery.
Smolčić, Joško, Kovacevic, Tonko, Antunović Terzić, Sandra, Zorica, Sinisa   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

Access at the doorstep: Supporting engagement with movement-based programmes. [PDF]

Soc Sci Med
Tupper E, Pollard T, Atkinson S, Phoenix C.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
wiley   +1 more source

The Fast and the Fragile: Neurosurgical Trauma in the Age of Micromobility. [PDF]

Neurosurgery
Weiss H, Ber R, Blacker M, Kim N, Orillac C, Balucani C, Huang PP.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

URBAN CLIMATE GOVERNANCE AND THE UNEVENNESS OF CITY NETWORKS: The Trajectory and Perspectives of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy in Chile

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars have widely discussed integrating local administrations into climate governance networks, focusing on networks such as the Global Covenant of Mayors or C40, whose members are mostly in the European Union or countries of the global North and premium cities managed by engaged administrations. Relatively little is known about urban‐scale
Alejandra Irigoyen Rios, Rosa Lehmann
wiley   +1 more source

Increased injury severity and age-related mortality in trauma victims after e-bike versus conventional bicycle accidents: a concerning call to action! [PDF]

Patient Saf Surg
Özman DD, Roth SMI, Fois MG, Diehr L, Teuben MPJ, Zhang H, Praster M, Berk T, Hildebrand F, Groven RVM.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris, Chryssanthi Petropoulou, Mara Zacharaki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

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
wiley   +1 more source

The rising burden of non-motor vehicle crashes: An emerging challenge for road traffic injury prevention in China, 1997-2023. [PDF]

Public Health Pract (Oxf)
Deng R, Yu S, Lin J, Yang Z, Ye W.
europepmc   +1 more source