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Locke(d) in a Dilemma: The Problem of Territorial Authority
ABSTRACT In Lockean social contract theory, the state exercises its authority over territory through property rights. The state has territorial authority over the property it and its citizens claim. This authority is legitimate when the state has the consent of the governed and effectively governs. In this paper, I argue that there is an irreconcilable
Samantha L. Fritz
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Applying knowledge graphs: Migrant decedent case trajectories in South Texas
Abstract The phenomenon of migrant death at the Texas‐Mexico border is well documented, but questions remain as concerns its spatial distribution and what happens to human remains after discovery. To start exploring these questions, we developed a knowledge graph (KG) approach to aggregate qualitative information concerning migrant death and elucidate ...
Molly Miranker +3 more
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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100 years of GAMM: Motivation, history and achievements
Abstract The International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, GAMM) was founded in 1923 with the goal to strengthen the field of scientific engineering by the foundation of an Engineering Association with strong scientific contacts to Applied Mathematics.
Wolfgang Ehlers
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Scheme for the labeling of the cell membrane. The scattering tags, gold nanoparticles of two different diameters (Ø20 nm and Ø40 nm), target the biotinylated lipids inserted in the cellular membrane, owing to their streptavidin coating. The possible, although not certain, effects of cross‐linking are also highlighted (dashed line).
Francesco Reina +2 more
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Ground zero soil sampling: Trinity, 1945
At Trinity—the world's first nuclear weapons testing site—large quantities of soil were drawn into the fireball to redeposit either downwind as radioactive fallout or in the near‐field as a unique, anthropogenic silicate glass trinitite. Manhattan Project physicists and chemists came to see soils at the Trinity site as a useful medium to assess the ...
Edward R. Landa
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Is Hume's Law a valid argument against empirical bioethics?
Abstract If “no ought from is,” how can bioethics be empirical? Despite the widespread recognition that we can integrate empirical and normative, Hume's Law is still often claimed to pose logical limitations to empirical bioethics. Is Hume's Law a valid argument against empirical bioethics? I argue that we have reasons to answer no.
Paolo Corsico
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Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the regional fencing contest at the YMCA in ...
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Disintegration highway: Towards a psychogeography of planetary urban breakdown
This paper develops a psychogeographical approach to our apocalyptic urban present, based on a journey down a highway on the outskirts of the city of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. The intensity of psychogeographical method brings out elements of the senselessness and violence of planetary urbanization imperceptible at more abstract levels of analysis,
Japhy Wilson
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