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Learning Photogrammetry with Interactive Software Tool PhoX [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2016
Photogrammetry is a complex topic in high-level university teaching, especially in the fields of geodesy, geoinformatics and metrology where high quality results are demanded.
T. Luhmann
doaj   +1 more source

(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trust is both a prerequisite and a product of insurance, as insurance contracts are built on and create trust relations that enable a risk‐averse perspective towards the future. At the same time, insurer‐policyholder relationships are characterised by a persistent distrust, rooted in insurance economics and industry reputation. In this article,
Maiju Tanninen, Gert Meyers
wiley   +1 more source

Autopoiesis, la unidad de una diferencia: Luhmann y Maturana Autopoiesis, the unity of a difference: Luhmann and Maturana

open access: yesSociologias, 2003
El artículo ofrece una reseña de la fructífera relación teórica entre Niklas Luhmann y Humberto Maturana. La teoría luhmanniana es un edificio conceptual cuyas dimensiones abarcan la comprensión de todo lo social. Pese al fallecimiento del autor en 1998,
Darío Rodríguez M., Javier Torres N.
doaj   +1 more source

Eccentricity in Images of Circular and Spherical Targets and its Impact to 3D Object Reconstruction [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2014
This paper discusses a feature of projective geometry which causes eccentricity in the image measurement of circular and spherical targets. While it is commonly known that flat circular targets can have a significant displacement of the elliptical image
T. Luhmann
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On two paradigms of legal theory and their relationship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
H. L. A. Hart thought that a theory of law can be purely descriptive and called his theory a “descriptive sociology”. One of his great contributions to modern legal theory is his emphasis on the internal aspect of social rules. According to him, a theory
Chang, Chia-yin
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The Functional Method of Comparative Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The functional method has become both the mantra and the bete noire of contemporary comparative law. The debate over the functional method is the focal point of almost all discussions about the field of comparative law as a whole, about centers and ...
Michaels, Ralf
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Capital and the Family

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of crustal magnetic fields and solar EUV flux on ionopause formation at Mars

open access: yes, 2019
We study the ionopause of Mars using a database of 6,893 ionopause detections obtained over 11 years by the MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) experiment.
Chu, F.   +7 more
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Insurance and the “Irrationalization” of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
wiley   +1 more source

DIFFERENTIATION AND COMPLEXITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS OF THE MEXICAN SUB-HUMID TROPICS

open access: yesTropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2020
Background. In Mexico, the transition from a welfare state to a minimal state in the eighties generated a change in public policies that affected the poorest farmers in the country. Objective.
Lorena Casanova-Pérez   +4 more
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