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THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Investments in large‐scale climate infrastructures are central to emerging forms of climate urbanism. In Jakarta, flood protection infrastructures seek to protect the city from devastating flood events in anticipation of future catastrophes.
Sophie Webber, Wahyu Kusuma Astuti
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The 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
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Monsoon drought over Java, Indonesia, during the past two centuries [PDF]

, 2006
Monsoon droughts, which often coincide with El Nino warm events, can have profound impacts on the populations of Southeast Asia. Improved understanding and prediction of such events can be aided by high-resolution proxy climate records, but these are ...
Aldrian, Allan, Ashley Curtis, Basnett, Berlage, Chenoweth, Cook, Cook, D'Arrigo, Dai, Dai, Fritts, Grove, Hackert, Harger, Hastenrath, Haylock, Herweijer, Holmes, John Sakulich, Jonathan Palmer, Kaplan, Konnen, La Ode Ngkoimani, Mann, Mann, Moore, Nicholls, Ortlieb, Paul Krusic, Peterson, Quinn, Rob Wilson, Ropelewski, Rosanne D'Arrigo, Satria Bijaksana, Siti Zulaikah, Stahle, van Bemmelen, van Oldenborgh   +39 more
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Severe Hearing Loss in the World's First Successfully Captive‐Born Yangtze Finless Porpoise: Impact of High Underwater Sound Exposure and Congenital Hearing Disorders

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
The audiogram of the world's first successfully captive‐born Yangtze finless porpoise was on average 40 dB higher than conspecifics. Congenital hearing disorders and noise exposure may be the primary cause of porpoise's hearing loss. ABSTRACT Aquariums globally have seen significant growth in recent decades.
Zhitao Wang, Tomonari Akamatsu, Kexiong Wang, Ding Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling Skin Mark Temporal Variations to Estimate the Sex of Delphinids with Low Sexual Dimorphism: Implications for Management and Conservation

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This work aimed to apply the principles of skin mark analysis to a cetacean species to build a sex‐discrimination model exclusively based on photographic material. Relevant differences between sexes emerged in markings, with males presenting more social, aggression‐related, and fishing‐related marks overall, and a stronger tendency of mark accumulation
Alice Turchi, Giulia Pedrazzi, Alex Mattiussi, Maria S. Labriola, Daniele Petrone, Sofia Rinalduzzi, Giancarlo Giacomini, Daniela Silvia Pace   +7 more
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Indonesia\u27s Maritime Axis and the Security of Sea Lanes of Communications (SLOCs) in the Indo-Pacific [PDF]

, 2016
This article tries to elaborate the strategic position of Indo-Pacific in the current International relations. This region has become a new crucial theatre for the global sea lanes of communication.
Agastia, I. G. (I), Perwita, A. A. (Anak)   +1 more
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Atlantic versus Indo-Pacific influence on Atlantic-European climate [PDF]

, 2005
The influence of the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans on Atlantic-European climate is investigated by analyzing ensemble integrations with the atmospheric general circulation model ECHAM4 forced by anomalous sea surface temperature and sea ice conditions
Bader, Czaja, Deser, Fraedrich, Hoerling, Holger Pohlmann, Latif, Latif, Marshall, Mehta, Merkel, Raible, Rayner, Rodwell, Rodwell, Roeckner, Roeckner, Rowell, Saravanan, Schneider, Sutton, Terray, Venzke, Visbeck   +23 more
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
wiley   +1 more source

A Model of the Ocean Overturning Circulation with Two Closed Basins and a Reentrant Channel [PDF]

, 2017
Zonally averaged models of the ocean overturning circulation miss important zonal exchanges of waters between the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans. A two-layer, two-basin model that accounts for these exchanges is introduced and suggests that in the ...
Allison, Lesley C., Ferrari, Raffaele, Johnson, Helen L., Marshall, David P., Nadeau, Louis-Philippe   +4 more
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New Frontiers in EU Trade Policy: Moving Beyond Conventional Trade Agreements

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the rules‐based international trading system faces stagnation and increasing unilateralism, the European Union's trade policy must evolve beyond conventional free trade agreements (FTAs). This article examines recent trends in EU trade agreements, highlighting not only their expanded scope to include areas such as digital trade ...
Niall Moran
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