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The Discursive Construction of Finnish Nationality on Twitch Esports Chat

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how esports audiences discursively construct Finnish nationality when spectating games of Counter‐Strike: Global Offensive during a major international tournament. The largest esports tournament broadcasts can attract tens or hundreds of thousands of viewers, who participate in the public debate surrounding the matches.
Marko Siitonen, Raine Koskimaa, Jari Lindroos, Maria Ruotsalainen, Tanja Välisalo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resource Substitution: Local Governments' Issue Attention and Policy Reinvention

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on policy reinvention, where a government modifies rather than replicates policy innovations introduced by other governments, has progressed significantly, but how it is influenced by the government's issue attention has not been thoroughly examined.
Yingxin Zhang, Yixue Yao, Kaifeng Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Combined intensity and coherent change detection with four classes for laboratory multistatic polarimetric synthetic aperture radar

IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation
Satellites and drone swarms can be used to collect multistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Synthetic Aperture Radar images can be used for Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance.
Alexander Hagelberg, Daniel Andre, Mark Finnis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Electronic Warfare: Comprehensive Strategy Needed for Suppressing Enemy Air Defenses [PDF]

, 2001
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "To suppress enemy air defenses, U.S. armed forces use specialized aircraft designed to neutralize, destroy, or temporarily degrade enemy air defense systems through ...
United States. General Accounting Office.
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Regulating Autonomous Weapon Systems: Searching for African Solutions to Regional and Global Problems

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), while offering strategic advantages in warfare, pose significant ethical, legal, and security risks, especially for countries in the Global South. This article examines how a philosophical perspective, rooted in African ethical and political thought, can enrich regional and global debates on regulating ...
Ezenwa E. Olumba, Samuel Oyewole, Christopher Isike, Tony Onazi Oche   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights ...
Susanne Karstedt, Wim Huisman, Annika van Baar, Rebecca Endtricht, Lorena Rivas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

State-of-the-Art Review: Electronic Warfare Against Radar Systems

The electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) is emerging as a sixth battlespace domain in military applications and is essential for wireless communications and remote sensing.
Reddy R, Saurabh Sinha, Reeshen Reddy, Sinha, Saurabh   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Tariff: The Most Beautiful Word in the Dictionary?

Review of International Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We consider the welfare impacts of US tariff policy at levels proposed by President Donald J. Trump. General‐equilibrium simulations under a widely used transparent one‐sector trade model reveal sizable US welfare losses. When we extend the model to include bilateral firm selection and high resolution input–output linkages, the US losses ...
Edward J. Balistreri, Suraiya Binte Ali, Christine McDaniel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive Testing Practices for Basic Military Training in the Nordic Countries: A Scoping Review

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Nordic countries have a long tradition of using general mental ability (GMA) tests as part of their military conscription process, a practice that began in the mid‐20th century. These Nordic tests were developed with a dual purpose—to filter out individuals unfit for military service and to rank individuals' GMA for military roles—and they
Emelie Wahlkrantz, Jeanette Melin
wiley   +1 more source

Living in the Mycelial World

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
wiley   +1 more source