The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN
History, EarlyView.Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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Mapping global resource driven nature loss in the mining sector from 2001 to 2022. [PDF]
Nat CommunCheng YT +6 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using biographical methods, the study explores the lives of 34 young people undertaking engineering apprenticeships in Teesside, Northeast England. It examines why working‐class youth in a deindustrialised region might be attracted to engineering, how they might secure apprenticeship, and the invaluable role households play in orchestrating ...
Anoop Nayak, Graham Gaunt
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Double‐Edged Bandwagon Effects in International Law—Rationalist and Behavioral Explanations
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines bandwagon effects in international law by integrating rationalist and behavioral perspectives. While the diffusion of treaties and norms has often been understood as a progressive process leading to broader participation and compliance, states also imitate negative examples, resulting in treaty withdrawals, non‐compliance,
Anne van Aaken
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An open-source optimization model for sustainable open-pit mine production scheduling. [PDF]
Front Artif IntellLotsu JS, Bimpong GY, Boakye K.
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud +4 more
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Disentangling Environmental Variability and Mining Disturbance: A Five-year Assessment of Mammal Community Responses to Open-pit Expansion in a Semi-arid Landscape. [PDF]
Environ ManageHiggs RW, Smit GN, Deacon F.
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Valuation of Intangible Expenditures: Revisiting Bublitz and Ettredge (1989)
Abacus, EarlyView.An extensive body of accounting research documents the difficulty of measuring the value of intangibles and the issues surrounding recording them in company financial statements. Early studies examined advertising and research and development (R&D) expenditures when companies began reporting them in their financials in 1972.
Matthew M. Wieland, Stewart Jones
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Study on the Intelligent Recognition Algorithm for Open-Pit Mine Slope Fissures: Crack-YOLO with Texture and Semantic Enhancement. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Zhao H, Wei H, Liu W, Jia H, He C.
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Seasonal Habitat Selection by a Threatened Ungulate in an Industrializing Boreal Landscape
Animal Conservation, EarlyView.Understanding habitat selection by Threatened wood bison in landscapes characterized by anthropogenic disturbance is important for conservation planning. During summer and winter, bison selected for linear (e.g., roads, seismic lines, pipelines) and polygonal (e.g., well sites) disturbances, unless there were high densities of linear features.
Lisa J. Koetke +4 more
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