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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

Environmental assessment, finding of no significant impact and decision record: Baurer Road/Unger Road intersection vegetation management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
16 pp. Maps, tables, illus. Township 4 South, Range 3 East, Section 23. Captured July 17, 2007.EA proposes project permiting Clackamas County to improve the sight distance at the approaches to the intersection of Unger and Baurer roads by cutting brush ...
United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salem District
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Relatability as a Racialised Construct in Corporate Graduate Recruitment: Revealing a Hidden Mechanism of Labour Market Exclusion for Black African Youth in South Africa

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In corporate graduate recruitment worldwide, candidates are often assessed not only on competence but on whether they are deemed relatable. This study theorises relatability as a racialised cultural–affective filter that covertly sustains inequality. Drawing on qualitative interviews, we identify five interlinked processes of self‐presentation,
Sifiso Mthembu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Examining Optimal Sight Distances at Rural Intersections [PDF]

open access: yes
US Transportation Collection2019PDFTech ReportMorris, Nichole L.Craig, Curtis M.Achtemeier, Jacob DUniversity of Minnesota. Department of Mechanical Engineering. HumanFIRST ProgramLocal Road Research BoardMinnesota. Department of Transportation.

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Visual Perception and Analysis of an Approaching Train at Railway Level Crossings in New Zealand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The prevalence of railway level crossing accidents in New Zealand is a high profile issue that has warranted close scrutiny over the last 10 years. However, the incident rate has not decreased. This research examined the possibility that visual illusions
Clark, Helen Elizabeth
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
wiley   +1 more source

Street trees and intersection safety [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This study and report is about street trees and intersection safety in urban contexts. The study derives from a rather simple, straightforward observation: that on the best tree-lined streets the trees come close to the corners.
Williams, Jeff   +3 more
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How Can Accountants Enhance (or Save) Natural and Cultural Capital Valuation? Engaging Academics: A Collaboration with CPA Canada and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO*

open access: yesAccounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 21-46, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Accountants should engage more with natural and cultural capital accounting to make tools more accessible and to ensure critical information is provided to decision‐makers. While ecological economists have continued to innovate and design tools, corporate‐level accounting has seemingly lagged behind.
S. Leanne Keddie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

3D Virtual Sight Distance Analysis Using Lidar Data [PDF]

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016753052016PDFTech ReportLaser radarSight distanceMathematical modelsStopping sight distanceVirtual realityHighway safetyPedestrian safetyCase studiesSafetyLidarLaser scanningVisibilityVisualizationPedestrian safetyData and information ...

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