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Sharing Economy vs Sharing Cultures? Designing for social, economic and environmental good [PDF]

open access: yesInteraction Design and Architecture(s), 2015
This paper explores the story behind a crowdfunding service as an example of sharing technology. Research in a small neighborhood of London showed how locally-developed initiatives can differ in tone, scale, ambition and practice to those getting ...
Ann Light, Clodagh Miskelly
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Photothermal Nanomaterials: A Powerful Light-to-Heat Converter

open access: yesChemical Reviews, 2023
All forms of energy follow the law of conservation of energy, by which they can be neither created nor destroyed. Light-to-heat conversion as a traditional yet constantly evolving means of converting light into thermal energy has been of enduring appeal ...
Ximin Cui   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Addressing Health Care Disparities: A Radical Perspective and Proposal

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2020
This paper begins by rethinking the sociological theory that social conditions are fundamental causes of health disparities and that controlling disease ironically increases or creates them.
Donald W. Light   +2 more
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‘Pou maumahara’, ‘the memory place’: Remembrance and material cultures of colonial conflict at the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

open access: yesHistorical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education, 2023
This article explores how material objects reveal patterns of remembrance in the public histories of the nineteenth-century New Zealand Wars fought between British regiments and colonial forces and Māori hapū and iwi (tribal groups). It is based
Rowan Light
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EnlightenGAN: Deep Light Enhancement Without Paired Supervision [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2019
Deep learning-based methods have achieved remarkable success in image restoration and enhancement, but are they still competitive when there is a lack of paired training data?
Yifan Jiang   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dynamic light scattering

open access: yesDrug Delivery System, 2020
A HeNe laser beam incident on a sample of micron-sized spheres suspended in water scatters into a random pattern of spots of varying size, shape, and intensity.
Kayori Takahashi, Kazuo Sakurai
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bridging global divides with tracking and tracing technology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Product-tracking technology is increasingly available to big players in the value chain connecting producers to consumers, giving them new competitive advantages.
Light, Ann
core   +1 more source

CRM packaged software: a study of organisational experiences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) packaged software has become a key contributor to attempts at aligning business and IT strategies in recent years.
Light, BA
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On the creation of a photon by an electromagnetic wave ball

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Recent literature has shown, theoretically as well as experimentally, that while a beam splitter does not split a single photon, it nonetheless divides the electromagnetic wave into transmitted and reflected, with both containing energies.
Gregory L. Light
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Open Access Sandpiles of Dignity: Labor Status and Boundary-Making in the Contemporary American Prison

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020
This study investigates discursive strategies through which prisoners seek dignity. In particular, it turns toward the role of penal labor in such pursuits. Drawing on eighty-two in-depth interviews and eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted
Michael Gibson-Light
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