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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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Integration of Landlocked Countries into the Global Economy and Domestic Economic Reforms: The case of Lao People’s Democratic Republic [PDF]
In this report, Laos’ challenges encountered as part of the WTO accession process will be surveyed. Subsequently, the linkages between Laos’ domestic reform processes and WTO accession will be analyzed, with a particular focus on certain key sectors and ...
Donald J. Lewis
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Evaluation of Soil Moisture Retrieval from the ERS and Metop Scatterometers in the Lower Mekong Basin [PDF]
, 2013 The natural environment and livelihoods in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) are significantly affected by the annual hydrological cycle. Monitoring of soil moisture as a key variable in the hydrological cycle is of great interest in a number of Hydrological ...
Apel, Heiko +5 more
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Global Inequality of Opportunity in Education Decreased During the 20th Century
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We document changes in global inequality of opportunity in education for women and men born between 1941 and 1983, using individual‐level census and survey data on 46.7 million individuals from 95 countries, representing all major regions of the world.
Michael Grätz +2 more
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Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This empirical study examines the impact of green finance on economic growth and renewable energy in a group of 76 developing nations in 2010–2019. Results from a cointegration analysis, vector error correction model, and Granger causality test confirm a cointegrating relationship between green finance, renewable energy, economic growth, and ...
Xuan‐Hoa Nghiem +2 more
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Laos legislative drafting programme [PDF]
, 1994 Draft documents, proposals, notes, and other various papers related to the Seidman's efforts to develop a legislative drafting programme in Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) between 1994 and 1997. This project was developed with support from the Lao
Seidman, Ann, Seidman, Robert B.
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Asian elephant population parameters were assessed using microsatellite, SNP, and sex determination DNA markers. This represents one of the first studies in mainland Asia to demonstrate that integrating microsatellite and SNP data enhances genotyping success from degraded fecal samples, increases the number of useable samples and markers, and ...
Rachel Crouthers +5 more
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Discriminating crops/weeds in an upland rice field from UAV images with the SLIC-RF algorithm
Plant Production Science, 2020 In this study, we propose a method for discriminating crops/weeds in upland rice fields using a commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and red-green-blue (RGB) cameras with the simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) algorithm and random forest (RF)
Kensuke Kawamura +4 more
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Economics of Smallholder Rubber Production in Northern Laos [PDF]
In response to demand from China, rubber smallholdings are being established by shifting cultivators in Northern Laos, encouraged by government land-use policy.
Cramb, Rob A., Manivong, Vongpaphane
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