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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

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
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable materials selection with emerging structural materials. [PDF]

Npj Mater Sustain
Burdett S, Arora M, Myers RJ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Taxonomic, Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity of Mammals Across a Nationwide Protected Area Network

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Using camera‐trap data from 26 protected across Tanzania, we show that greater landscape heterogeneity and stronger protection are associated with higher mammal species richness and, in turn, functionally and phylogenetically richer mammal assemblages. Greater landscape heterogeneity appears to favour generalist species while stronger protection seems ...
Ben G. Parker, Nathalie Pettorelli, Alex Lobora, Maurus J. Msuha, Joseph A. Tobias, Charles Foley, Sarah M. Durant   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

Challenging Mass-Based Exclusion Criteria: The Environmental Significance of Structural Connections in Timber Buildings

BioResources
In environmental impact assessments of buildings, the steel used in wooden structural connections, which are responsible for sustaining shear and tension stresses, is often overlooked yet could account for up to 13% of the total environmental impact over
Pierre-Mathis Le Souder, Pierre Blanchet, Franck Michaud, Joao Vitor Felippe Silva, Bertrand Laratte   +4 more
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Collected data on displacement and vibration tests of layered floor assembly constructed by using glued timber trusses. [PDF]

Data Brief
Hatsala A, Ilgın HE, Kinnunen N, Luukkainen JP, Malmstedt F, Pajunen S, Rinkinen K, Sormunen J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What exploitation is

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We experimentally elicit views of what exploitation is from over 2,000 subjects. Our experimental design does not test existing theories of exploitation. Rather, it focuses on more fundamental properties that are the building blocks for these theories.
Benjamin Ferguson, Peter Hans Matthews, David Ronayne, Roberto Veneziani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Embodied carbon dataset for residential building structures in Finland. [PDF]

Data Brief
Kiernicki C, Kolkwitz M, Kaasalainen T, Huuhka S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

More than just loyalty? Understanding members’ investment in their cooperatives’ tradable preferred shares

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Guided by behavioural economics, this paper examines the factors shaping members’ investments in tradable and appreciable preferred shares issued by their cooperatives. These shares possess characteristics of both bonds and long‐term equity, and when tradable, they acquire a market value that helps mitigate issues related to the vaguely ...
Julia Höhler, Charlotte Larsson, Louise Lidebjer, Jerker Nilsson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Timely deployment of best-in-class technologies to enable development and decarbonise construction. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Dunant C, Hafez H, Marsh ATM, Miller SA, Röck M, Schmidt W, Scrivener KL, Zunino F.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source