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Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
wiley   +1 more source

The collective application of shorebird tracking data to conservation

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Addressing urgent conservation issues, such as the drastic declines of North American migratory birds, requires creative, evidence‐based, efficient, and collaborative approaches. The abundance of over 50% of monitored North American shorebird populations has declined by over 50% since 1980. To address these declines, we developed a partnership
Autumn‐Lynn Harrison   +71 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Automated Acoustic System to Monitor and Classify Birds

open access: yesEURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2006
This paper presents a novel bird monitoring and recognition system in noisy environments. The project objective is to avoid bird strikes to aircraft.
Ho KC   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

BumbleBEEP: A Sensor System for Bumblebee Colony Monitoring

open access: yesEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
We present a bumblebee colony monitoring system, BumbleBEEP. The system is fitted with thermometers and a custom weight sensor. These record data up to every 15 min, recording bumblebee brood nest temperature, environmental ambient temperature, and colony growth.
Nynke Blömer   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Mokuhanga Technique Today: An Exploration of Traditional Japanese Art in the Artistic and Educational Context

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the Mokuhanga technique, a traditional Japanese printmaking method, and its contemporary evolution. This article explores the history of this discipline, its technical uniqueness, and its resurgence in the current context, with particular attention to its development in Spain.
Macarena Moreno Moreno
wiley   +1 more source

China and Limits to the European Union's Geoeconomic Turn

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The European Union's (EU) pivot from a commitment to efficiency to concern about security is commonly referred to as its ‘geoeconomic turn’. This paper analyses the EU's capacities to enhance its economic security and to engage in economic statecraft by focusing on China, which, at least until recently, posed the greatest geoeconomic challenge
Alasdair R. Young, Scott A. W. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

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