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Noise, smell and other nuisances : Valletta c.1880s – c.1930 [PDF]

, 2016
During the last thirty years or so, some historians have turned their attention to the human senses other than sight. This paper discusses briefly the noises and smells pervading Valletta during the final years of the 19th and the opening decades of ...
Refalo, Michael
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An Empirical Evaluation of Current Convolutional Architectures' Ability to Manage Nuisance Location and Scale Variability

, 2016
We conduct an empirical study to test the ability of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to reduce the effects of nuisance transformations of the input data, such as location, scale and aspect ratio. We isolate factors by adopting a common convolutional
Dong, Jingming, Karianakis, Nikolaos, Soatto, Stefano   +2 more
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Decreased BOLD Signal Variability in Middle‐Aged and Older Adults on the Autism Spectrum

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder. Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk for early‐onset cognitive and neurological decline in ASD. While brain development in children, adolescents, and young adults with ASD diverges from neurotypical (NT) peers, it remains unclear in older adults with ASD ...
Stephanie Pedrahita, Annika Linke, Michaela Cordova, Molly Wilkinson, Janice Hau, Gioia Toro, Kalekirstos Alemu, Jiwandeep Kohli, Ralph‐Axel Müller, Ruth Carper   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Law, sex and the city: Regulating sexual entertainment venues in England and Wales [PDF]

, 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, Philip Hubbard   +1 more
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A review of the historic and present ecological role of aquatic and shoreline wood, from forest to deep sea

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson, Ellen Wohl, Laura L. Govers, Oscar Franken, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Han Olff, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Maryann S. Watson, Luísa M.S. Borges, Tjisse van der Heide   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of a Just Regional Energy Transition: What If We Ask Citizens?

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The installation of wind turbines and solar parks in valued rural landscapes has led to local concerns and perceived injustices to the extent that the societal acceptance of the energy transition is at stake. Although the literature on energy justice is blooming, research into citizens' understandings of justice with regards to regional energy
Simone Haarbosch, Sanneke Kloppenburg, Bas Van Vliet, Tamara Metze   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

On handling urban informality in southern Africa [PDF]

, 2013
In this article I reconsider the handling of urban informality by urban planning and management systems in southern Africa. I argue that authorities have a fetish about formality and that this is fuelled by an obsession with urban modernity.
AAPS, Abdoul M., Amin A., Amin Y. Kamete, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, Bauman Z., Bayat A., Beall J., Berman M., Blunch N.‐H., Bromley R., Bromley R., Butcher C., Caldeira T. P. R., Campbell E. K., Castells M., CHRA, CITY of HARARE, CITY of HARARE, Cresswell T., de soto H., Foucault M., Friedman E., García canclini N., Ghertner D. A., Gospodini A., Gueye C., Hansen K. T., Hart K., Holston J., ILO, Jimu I. M., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kayuni H. M., King K., Legg S., Lindell I., Lindell I., Llobera J. R., Maloney W. F., Marcuse H., Meagher K., Misztal B. A., Misztal B. A., Mooya M. M., Moser C. O. N., MPSLSW, MPSLSW, Mubvami T., Odendaal N., Popke E. J., Prakash G., Rakodi C., Rakodi C., Robins S., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Rupiya M., Samers M., Sandercock L., SDI, SDI, Simone A., Simone A., Simone A., Stern R. E., Stren R. E., Swilling M., Thomas J., Tibaijuka A. K., Tipple A. G., Tokman V. E., UN‐HABITAT, UN‐HABITAT, Watson V., Watson V., Wekwete K. H., Yiftachel O.   +83 more
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Justice: the Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution.

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019
The grassroots movement that placed environmental justice issues on the national stage around 1980 was soon followed up by research documenting the correlation between pollution and race and poverty.
S. Banzhaf, Lala Ma, C. Timmins
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Characterizing early behavioral and social–emotional problems in young children with SCN1A+ Dravet syndrome: Findings from the ENVISION prospective natural history study

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Dravet syndrome (DS) is the prototypic developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, characterized by drug‐resistant seizures, developmental slowing, and many other morbidities. Detailed characterization of behavioral phenotypes and social–emotional skill development are limited.
Ingrid E. Scheffer, M. Scott Perry, Joseph Sullivan, Susana Boronat, James Wheless, Andreas Brunklaus, Linda Laux, Anup D. Patel, Colin Roberts, Dennis Dlugos, Deborah Holder, Kelly Knupp, Matt Lallas, Steven Phillips, Eric Segal, Dennis Lal, Elaine Wirrell, Sameer M. Zuberi, Rebecca Shaffer, Mary Wojnaroski, Madison M. Berl, Sarah Christensen, Emma S. James, Maria Candida Vila, Norman Huang, Jacqueline S. Gofshteyn, Salvador Rico   +26 more
wiley   +1 more source