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A fire safety engineering approach to improving community resilience to the impacts of wildfire

Fire and Materials, EarlyView.
Abstract Each year severe wildfires continue to cause significant destruction resulting in the loss of life, property, critical infrastructure, and the environment. In an effort to increase community preparedness and resilience to wildfire, international jurisdictions have adopted both guiding principles and prescriptive codes that apply to both urban ...
Greg Penney, Greg Baker, Andres Valencia, Daniel Gorham   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entrevista a Giovanni Pesce [PDF]

, 2008
L’autor ens presenta l’entrevista a Giovanni Pesce, antic vetear italià que participà a la Guerra d’Espanya amb les Brigades Internacionals.The author shows in this paper the interview with Giovanni Pesce, old italian veteran that fought in the Spanish ...
Magnani, Alberto
core  

Spectral tripartitioning of networks [PDF]

Physical Review E vol.80 036111 (2009), 2008
We formulate a spectral graph-partitioning algorithm that uses the two leading eigenvectors of the matrix corresponding to a selected quality function to split a network into three communities in a single step. In so doing, we extend the recursive bipartitioning methods developed by Newman [Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 103, 8577 (2006); Phys. Rev.
arxiv   +1 more source

‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
wiley   +1 more source

Bucket-brigade inspired power line network protocol for sensed quantity profile acquisition with smart sensors deployed as a queue in harsh environment [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Pressure and temperature profile are key data for safe production in oil and gas wells. In this paper, a bucket-brigade inspired sensor network protocol is proposed which can be used to extract sensed data profile from the nanoscale up to kilometer long structures. The PHY/MAC layers are discussed.
arxiv  

Sustainable global medical mission work: the CSB/SJU Global Medical Brigade [PDF]

, 2016
International medical mission work, especially programs that include undergraduate students are under increasing fire as an unsustainable method for providing care to marginalized populations in developing countries.
Bruinsma, Tyler J.
core   +1 more source

The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

Continuous Flow Model of a Historical Battle: A Fresh Look at Pickett's charge [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
A continuous flow model of infantry behavior, based on conservation of individuals and tracking of subunit identity, has been developed in sufficient detail that it can now be applied to a realistic simulation of a historical battle. Pickett's charge during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in the U.S.
arxiv  

Comintern Army: The International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War [PDF]

, 1982
When Spain exploded into civil war in July 1936, a conflict whose roots were deep in the Spanish past became the arena for the violent political passions that divided Europe north of the Pyrenees.
Richardson, R. Dan
core   +1 more source

Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Civilian‐led coups are one of the most common routes to losing power in autocracies. How do authoritarian leaders secure themselves from civilian leadership challenges? We argue that autocrats differentiate civilian rivals in part by their social ties to the military.
Tyler Jost, Daniel Mattingly
wiley   +1 more source