Identification campaign of supernova remnant candidates in the Milky Way - I: Chandra observation of G308.3-1.4 [PDF]
ROSAT all-sky survey (RASS) data have provided another window to search for supernova remnants (SNRs). In reexamining this data archive, a list of unidentified extended X-ray objects have been suggested as promising SNR candidate. However, most of these targets have not yet been fully explored by the state-of-art X-ray observatories.
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Using Network Analysis on Twitter Data to Identify Threats on Indonesian Digital Activism [PDF]
In this study, we tried to see and characterize potential threats to digital activism in the internet-active nation of Indonesia by doing network analysis on a recent digital activism event on Twitter, which protested against a recent law related to alcoholic beverage investment.
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R-process Experimental Campaign at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory [PDF]
A JINA/VISTARS r-process campaign was completed at the A1900 Fragment Separator of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory in the fall of 2005. The purpose of the campaign was the measurement of the beta-decay half-lives and beta-delayed neutron-emission probabilities of different unknown neutron-rich nuclei participating in the r-process ...
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Florida Politics and the Tallahassee Press [PDF]
In 1849, the editor of the Tallahassee Floridian & Journal, one of the state’s leading newspapers, recommended the compilation of Florida’s news journals so that future historical researchers would be furnished with “extensive and otherwise unattainable ...
Graham, Thomas S.
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Reviewing National Cybersecurity Awareness for Users and Executives in Africa [PDF]
There is an unprecedented increase in cybercrime globally observed over the last years. One of the regions driving this increase is Africa, where significant financial losses are reported. Yet, citizens of African countries are not aware of the risks present in cyberspace.
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Southern port city politics and the Know Nothing Party in the 1850s [PDF]
Scholars of the 1850s have focused their attention on national or state issues which fostered the development of sectionalism and disunion. Political parties which operated beyond the mainstream of national partisan rivalries have usually been treated as
Crowson, Brian Edward
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Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project. I. Strategy and Sample [PDF]
While the reverberation mapping technique is the best available method for measuring black hole mass in active galactic nuclei (AGN) beyond the local volume, this method has been mainly applied to relatively low-to-moderate luminosity AGNs at low redshift.
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Flecheros indígenas matagalpa “héroes nacionales”
Based on Decree No. 808 of the year 2012 of the National Assembly, which recognizes the quality of national heroes to the archers of the indigenous community of Matagalpa by their participation in the Battle of San Jacinto (September 14, 1856).
M. Rizo
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Loose Party Times: The Political Crisis of the 1850s in Westchester County, New York
On November 7, 1848 William H. Robertson rose early and rushed to the post office in Bedford, a town in Westchester County, New York. The young lawyer was brimming with excitement because two weeks earlier, the Whigs in the county?s northern section had ...
Baum, Zachary
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Idealism and materialism in antebellum southern political history : a review essay [PDF]
Although the mainstream "new political historians" have largely ignored the South, historians of the antebellum South have produced some of the most interesting recent works in political history.
Kousser, J. Morgan
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