The International Brigades [PDF]
La presencia en España de unos 35.000 voluntarios, reclutados por la Tercera Internacional, consiguió que ciudadanos de más de 53 países cooperaran con el Ejército Popular de la República durante la Guerra Civil.
Prades Artigas, M. Lourdes+1 more
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Circuit implementation of bucket brigade qRAM for quantum state preparation [PDF]
In this short review I aim to explain how we can construct a circuit implementation of the bucketbrigade qRAM first proposed in [1]. Used with classical data, this qRAM model can be used incombination with the quantum accessible data structure [2] to prepare arbitrary quantum statesquickly and repeatedly, once the data to be prepared is in ...
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Putting the Core at the Centre The Crisis Response Operation Core (CROC) and the Future of PESCO. Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 119 December 2019 [PDF]
The reader who cannot readily identify the meaning of CROC (Croque Monsieur? Croque Madame?) in the context of European defence can be forgiven. The flurry of activity in the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) since 2016 has generated a host ...
Biscop, Sven
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Al-Qaeda in Gaza: isolating “the base” [PDF]
In 1996, Osama bin Laden declared jihad against the American forces occupying Saudi Arabia, calling for Muslims to expel the infidels from the “land of the two holy places.” The first sacred ground mentioned in this statement, however, was not Saudi ...
Marshall, Warren
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Abstract Evidence on by‐employment in long‐run economic development is limited in existing literature worldwide. This study constructed a new dataset comprising 74 515 occupational observations with 4890 by‐employed individuals derived from Chinese lineage genealogies.
Ying Dai
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Privatisation of ambulance, emergency and firefighting services in Europe – a growing threat? [PDF]
This paper examines the extent of privatisation in the ambulance, emergency and firefighting services in Europe, and the companies ...
Lethbridge, Jane
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A Hybrid Three Layer Architecture for Fire Agent Management in Rescue Simulation Environment
This paper presents a new architecture called FAIS for imple- menting intelligent agents cooperating in a special Multi Agent environ- ment, namely the RoboCup Rescue Simulation System.
Geramifard, Alborz+3 more
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Boundary Spanning and Practical Impact in IS Research: A Bourdieusian Analysis
ABSTRACT Information systems (IS) research often seeks to deliver practical impact in addition to the traditional requirement for theoretical contribution. While an admirable goal, it is nevertheless a challenging prospect, as key questions remain around how best to facilitate a relationship between IS academic and practitioner communities.
Stephen McCarthy+3 more
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From Hunky Heroes to Dangerous Dinosaurs: Journalism-union relations, news access and press coverage in the 2002-3 British Fire Brigades Union dispute [PDF]
Using the UK Fire Brigades Union dispute of 2002-3 as a case study, this paper assesses current union-journalism relations and briefly outlines the FBU’s campaign to access the news agenda.
O'Neill, Deirdre
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War as a Phenomenon of Inquiry in Management Studies
Abstract We argue that war as a phenomenon deserves more focused attention in management. First, we highlight why war is an important and relevant area of inquiry for management scholars. We then integrate scattered conversations on war in management studies into a framework structured around three building blocks – (a) the nature of war from an ...
Fabrice Lumineau, Arne Keller
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