Results 91 to 100 of about 98,475 (290)
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Ultra low energy results and their impact to dark matter and low energy neutrino physics
, 2010 We present ultra low energy results taken with the novel Spherical Proportional Counter. The energy threshold has been pushed down to about 25 eV and single electrons are clearly collected and detected.
Bougamont, E. +11 more
core +1 more source
Some are more equal than others: responses to political violence [PDF]
, 2014 While it is true that the US has, for once, signed up to a UN Security Council statement which calls for an "immediate and unconditional humanitarian cease-fire”, this might still be considered a tactical step to prevent more strongly worded resolutions ...
Head, Naomi
core
READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
wiley +1 more source
Switching Umbrellas in Berlin? The Implications of Franco-German Nuclear Cooperation
The Washington Quarterly, 2020 In light of increasing doubts about US security guarantees, the idea of a greater role for the French nuclear deterrent in European security has gained a certain amount of traction, including among...
openaire +1 more source
A Framework for Evaluating Global AI Governance Initiatives
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Efforts to develop global governance initiatives for artificial intelligence (AI) have increased significantly in recent years. However, these initiatives have generally had a limited impact due to their vagueness, lack of authority and repetition.
Huw Roberts +2 more
wiley +1 more source
U.S. Foreign Policy Towards North Korea
International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, 2018 The U.S. relations to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are since the end of the Cold War revolving around achieving a state of nuclear free Korean peninsula.
Lucia Husenicova
doaj +1 more source
Divided They Dally? The Arab World and a Nuclear Iran [PDF]
, 2010 Explores how the Arab states -- Gulf States, non-Gulf States, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria -- might react to a nuclear Iran. Considers possible changes to inter-Arab relations and the United States' role in working with Arab states to contain ...
Michael Young
core
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Electricity grid infrastructures shape future publics and the contours of political belonging or exclusion, including citizenship. But in fire‐prone, more precariously grid‐connected regions in California, experiments with micro‐ and home nanogrids, subsidized by the state and built in many cases with Tesla products, provide new opportunities ...
Joanne Randa Nucho
wiley +1 more source
Nuclear latency and the future strategic environment [PDF]
This paper examines the issue of nuclear latency (the potential for countries to obtain nuclear weapons capability) by focusing on the cases of the Republic of Korea and Japan, then looks at what Australia should do.
Michael Malyshev
core