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Empirical proof of the empirical line

International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2007
Calibrating remotely sensed data to reflectance maximizes their quantitative utility. Many approaches exist for calibrating to reflectance (ρ), one of which is the empirical line (EL) method. It offers high-quality results, often to within a few per cent, but is demanding in terms of field work and analysis.
D. P. Groeneveld, W. M. Baugh
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Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique

, 2016
Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has ...
R. Radano, Tejúmólá Ọláníyan
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Empirical and Semi-Empirical Kinetics

2018
The term \( C_{{i}} \) indicates concentration, and each term within () brackets indicates a rate of change of concentration. Each of the terms within () brackets is an index of reaction rate, and these are interrelated.
Hem Shanker Ray, Saradindukumar Ray
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Empire of Capital

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, 2021

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The New Peasantries: Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability in an Era of Empire and Globalization

, 2008
Dit boek van ruraal socioloog Jan Douwe van der Ploeg is een pleidooi voor een nieuwe boerenlandbouw als een agrarisch systeem dat het best en meest duurzaam de zorg op zich kan nemen voor de vele cultuurlandschappen die de wereld rijk is.
J. D. Ploeg
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Empires of Property, Properties of Empire

2018
This chapter focuses on the colonists’ claim to property in persons. It looks at the arguments of Kant, Diderot and Cuguano contesting the progressive narrative of civilization and refinement and condemning the ways in which the European spirit of conquest created barbarity and ignorance, and allowed the process of commodification to develop.
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The Empire at Home and the Empire Abroad

American Literary History, 2009
The movement away from US-centered approaches to America enables scholars to cross disciplinary boundaries and delineate the global forces operating in literary texts. Specifically, as Caroline Levander and Robert Levine put it in special issue of this journal, hemispheric considerations of American literature “excavat[e] the intricate and complex ...
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Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire

, 2015
Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire "recovers the stories of five Indian Muslim scholars who, in the aftermath of the uprising of 1857, were hunted by British authorities, fled their homes in India for such destinations as Cairo, Mecca, and ...
S. Alavi
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Jesus’ Empire or the Empire’s Jesus?

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2014
AbstractIn response to Burton Mack’s argument in “A Secular Bible?” that a Christian myth or “Christian mentality” drives American empire, this essay suggests that Christian myths should be seen as products of empire. As we can see by looking at 19th and 20th century racist and anti-racist versions of Jesus, base determines superstructure at least some
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Empirical Measures, Empirical Processes

2018
We analyze properties of empirical measures and empirical processes. In particular, point-wise consistency and asymptotic normality of empirical measures are proven, where a point refers to a given Borel set. These results are extended to functionals.
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