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Les normes internationales à l’épreuve du local : les maires à Fukushima après l’accident nucléaire

Socio-anthropologie
The environmental and health consequences of a nuclear accident are managed within an international normative and regulatory framework. This is the legacy of standardisation processes led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the ...
Christine Fassert, Rina Kojima
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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A eficácia do pork barrel: a importância de emendas orçamentárias e prefeitos aliados na eleição de deputados

Opinião Pública
Resumo Há pouco consenso, nos estudos empíricos, sobre o efeito eleitoral das emendas orçamentárias individuais. O artigo retoma essa questão, utilizando regressões com dados em painel para estudar como as emendas de um deputado afetam seu desempenho na ...
Alexandre Lima Baião, Cláudio Gonçalves Couto   +1 more
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How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke, Joelle Moore, Fatemeh Aminpour, Katya Eagles   +3 more
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Unfused transverse foramen of the atlas vertebra in the Neandertal lineage fossils

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract In anatomically modern humans, the atlas can display an unfused transverse foramen (UTF) but currently the presence of UTF in the Neandertal lineage is uncertain due to a scarcity of prevalence studies and no exhaustive record of its presence throughout the entire hominin fossil record.
Asier Gómez‐Olivencia, Mikel Arlegi, Juan José Valenzuela‐Fuenzalida, Mathias Orellana‐Donoso, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Juan A. Sanchis‐Gimeno   +5 more
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The pelvis doesn't walk by itself: Wider pelves reduce the cost of walking over unstable surfaces

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Walking over variable and/or unstable terrain is a key aspect of daily life and was crucial to the evolution of bipedalism. The ability to find gait solutions that maintained stability over uneven terrain for the least increase in metabolic cost was likely a hallmark of locomotor effectiveness in early humans, in particular acting as an ...
Cara Wall‐Scheffler, Taylor Morscheck, Katelyn McCollor   +2 more
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The Advantage of Incumbency among Czech Mayors: Analysis of Election Results in the 128 Largest Cities in the Czech Republic

Politics in Central Europe
The incumbency effect, where incumbents have a higher likelihood of electoral success, is a well-documented phenomenon globally but remains under-researched in the Czech Republic. This article investigates whether and to what extent the incumbency effect
Čapek Jakub
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A Framework for city leadership in multilevel governance settings: the comparative contexts of Italy and the UK

Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2016
This paper discusses the role of city leadership in the current multilevel governance settings and provides a conceptual framework for understanding the main elements of city leadership.
Leslie Budd, Alessandro Sancino
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Leveraging Big Multitemporal Multisource Satellite Data and Artificial Intelligence for the Detection of Complex and Invisible Features: The Case of Extensive Irrigation Mapping

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The detection of buried or obscured archaeological features remains a central challenge in landscape archaeology, particularly in the irrigated floodplains of Mesopotamia where levees and canals formed the basis of complex agrarian systems. This study presents a deep learning–based approach for the large‐scale, automated detection of ancient ...
Nazarij Buławka, Hector A. Orengo, Felipe Lumbreras Ruiz, Iban Berganzo‐Besga, Ekta Gupta   +4 more
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Migrația primarilor și efectele ei electorale: alegerile din România (2014). (The Effects of Mayors Switching Parties on the 2014 Romanian Elections) [PDF]

Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2015
In 2014, between the two electoral ballots, the European Parliamentary elections and presidential elections respectively, as a consequence of an Emergency Government Ordinance, the mayors were able to move from one party to another without losing their ...
Aurelian GIUGĂL
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