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The Advent of Zoning [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
This essay looks at some of the lawyers and judges who were instrumental in the enactment and judicial approval of American zoning ...
Power, Garrett
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Law, sex and the city: Regulating sexual entertainment venues in England and Wales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Purpose – This paper aims to explore how municipal law, in its various guises, serves to police the boundaries of acceptable sexual conduct by considering how Sexual Entertainment Venues (SEVs) in British cities are controlled through diverse techniques ...
Mr Luke Bennett, Professor Antonia Layard   +1 more
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Urban Authorities and Economic Sectors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Taxation on businesses, which makes up two thirds of local authorities' revenues, urges them to widen the range of their economic interventions. The communauté d'agglomération Plaine Commune is one of the most dynamic in the Parisian metropolis and has ...
Lebeau, Boris
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Facteurs d'ambiance dans l'industrie textile en République Démocratique du Congo: état de lieu

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2016
INTRODUCTION: ce travail vise à faire une évaluation des nuisances dans le milieu de travail du secteur textile en République Démocratique du Congo. METHODES: nous avons effectué une étude transversale et analytique. Sur 257 travailleurs sélectionnés par
Panda Lukongo Kitronza   +1 more
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Removing Local Nuisances, Arresting Masterless Strangers, and Granting ‘Nights on Request’

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2023
This article proposes a comparative study of everyday police controls of vagrants in two Belgian cities – a port city and a capital city – at the end of the nineteenth century, a period that was characterized by heightened mobility and social fear about
Margo De Koster, Ayfer Erkul
doaj   +1 more source

Focus : Ragondin des villes contre ragondin des champs [PDF]

open access: yesSciences, Eaux & Territoires, 2012
Introduit en Europe au dix-neuvième siècle pour l'exploitation de sa fourrure, le ragondin a aujourd'hui conquis la quasi-totalité du territoire français, devenant une source de nuisances et de dégradations pour les cultures, les berges ou encore les ...
SIGAUT, Olivier
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Mesure des nuisances olfactives associées à l’élevage porcin

open access: yesINRAE Productions Animales, 2008
Cet article résume les apports du programme «Porcherie verte» dans le développement de méthodes de mesure des nuisances olfactives qui, dans l’esprit du public, sont fortement associées à l’élevage porcin et constituent un facteur limitant essentiel à ...
J.L. BERDAGUE , M. BONNEAU
doaj   +1 more source

On detecting harmonic oscillations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper, we focus on the following testing problem: assume that we are given observations of a real-valued signal along the grid $0,1,\ldots,N-1$, corrupted by white Gaussian noise. We want to distinguish between two hypotheses: (a) the signal is a
Juditsky, Anatoli, Nemirovski, Arkadi
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La biodiversité, une ressource, mais aussi un fardeau ? Intérêt et limites des notions de services et disservices écosystémiques pour repenser les interactions nature-sociétés dans les territoires ruraux

open access: yesVertigO, 2021
The degradation and preservation of natural resources are often sources of tensions and conflicts between stakeholders in territories. The ecosystem service (ES) framework has been widely used to analyse these processes and design more effective ...
Julien Blanco   +6 more
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Coherent Spectral Feature Extraction Using Symmetric Autoencoders

open access: yesIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Hyperspectral data acquired through remote sensing are invaluable for environmental and resource studies. While rich in spectral information, various complexities, such as environmental conditions, material properties, and sensor characteristics can ...
Archisman Bhattacharjee, Pawan Bharadwaj
doaj   +1 more source

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