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Hierarchical equilibria of branching populations [PDF]

open access: yes
The objective of this paper is the study of the equilibrium behavior of a population on the hierarchical group (Omega)N consisting of families of individuals undergoing critical branching random walk and in addition these families also develop according ...
A. Wakolbinger   +2 more
core  

Why Neoliberalism Doesn't Spell the Death of Society: Commonality, Regulation, and the Politics of Social Cohesion

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Perspectives on neoliberal political‐economic practice often frame its dominance in terms of harms to ‘society’. Prominently, Wendy Brown (2019, 52) offers an account of the ‘neoliberal revolution’, claiming that, when ‘the social vanishes from our ideas, speech, and experience’, commonality disappears, democracy diminishes, and ...
Jan Dobbernack
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesThe 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 Book of Dene, Deane, Adeane: a Genealogical History [PDF]

open access: bronze, 1899
Deane, Mary. cn   +1 more
openalex   +1 more source

Aging in Nationhood: Everyday Nationalism and Belonging Among Seniors in Old‐Age Homes in Québec

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars of aging and nationalism rarely engage with each another. To remedy this gap, I examine how ethnonationalism becomes a resource for navigating the precarity of aging. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two private senior residences in a region of Québec, I show how financially privileged Québécois seniors enact nationhood through ...
Jessica Stallone
wiley   +1 more source

Phenotypic diversity and population growth in fluctuating environment: a MBPRE approach

open access: yes, 2009
Organisms adapt to fluctuating environments by regulating their dynamics, and by adjusting their phenotypes to environmental changes. We model population growth using multitype branching processes in random environments, where the offspring distribution ...
Bansaye, Vincent   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Rendezvous in Space: Tech Diplomacy and the Commercial Space Era—A Study of Rendezvous and Docking Technologies and Space Exploration Co‐Operation Since the Cold War

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On‐orbit rendezvous and docking constitute one of the most technically challenging activities in the history of space activities. As space endeavours mature to crewed missions, space rendezous and docking technologies (RDT) emerge as an area of technological innovation critical to advances in future crewed space exploration.
Nikita Chiu, Markus Kornprobst
wiley   +1 more source

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