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Indigenous rights, peoples, and space exploration: A response to the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Consulting Canadians on a framework for future space exploration activities [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Canada is beginning to plan its next chapter of space exploration that includes sending humans back to the Moon and onwards to Mars. This includes understanding humanities place in space and who will benefit from our exploration. As part of this plan the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) placed a call for consultations.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines segregation through the lens of gender, intimacy, race and colonial rule by engaging with how the French colonial state controlled the marriages permitted between French women and Moroccan soldiers who had fought in France during the Second World War.
Catherine Phipps
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IndT5: A Text-to-Text Transformer for 10 Indigenous Languages [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Transformer language models have become fundamental components of natural language processing based pipelines. Although several Transformer models have been introduced to serve many languages, there is a shortage of models pre-trained for low-resource and Indigenous languages.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we examine the urban commons through the concept of subjectivity. We attend to the ways in which alternative and hegemonic values are negotiated among different commoners and within individual commoners. Which challenges do commoners face as they pursue alternative values within the context of capitalist urbanization?
Emma Jo Griffith, Justus Uitermark
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Parallel Corpus for Indigenous Language Translation: Spanish-Mazatec and Spanish-Mixtec [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 In this paper, we present a parallel Spanish-Mazatec and Spanish-Mixtec corpus for machine translation (MT) tasks, where Mazatec and Mixtec are two indigenous Mexican languages. We evaluated the usability of the collected corpus using three different approaches: transformer, transfer learning, and fine-tuning pre-trained multilingual MT models.
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Preterm birth is a priority area for practice improvement internationally. Clinical practice guidelines improve the efficiency of clinical decision‐making and, when implemented effectively, may advance the quality and consistency of care. Guideline implementation tools may help to further optimise the use of guidelines.
Briar Hunter +6 more
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Earthly Indigeneity: The Cognitive and Ethical Implications of a Disregarded Cosmic Occurence
On_Culture, 2018 In any form, ‘being indigenous’ has a relational signification. Therefore, what consequences might there be for a conceptualization of indigenism that recognizes the commonality of our being indigenous to the Earth?
Mario Ricca
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Anthropology &Education Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article uses the framework of legal violence to examine two educational labels attached to immigrant young people: newcomer and international student. We demonstrate how these labels function to obscure immigrant students' long‐standing relationships with the United States and result in missed opportunities to address how legal violence ...
Sophia L. Ángeles, Kyle Halle‐Erby
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Using Modern Technologies to Capture and Share Indigenous Astronomical Knowledge [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 Indigenous Knowledge is important for Indigenous communities across the globe and for the advancement of our general scientific knowledge. In particular, Indigenous astronomical knowledge integrates many aspects of Indigenous Knowledge, including seasonal calendars, navigation, food economics, law, ceremony, and social structure.
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Current Issues in Tourism, 2019 In literature on tourism in northern or ‘Arctic’ areas and on regions and places in northern areas, terms such as ‘indigenous’ and ‘non-indigenous’ are often used to distinguish people and places from each other.
E. Keskitalo +3 more
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