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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Animals, 2022 Protected areas are seeing an increase in anthropogenic disturbances in the world. Previous studies have demonstrated the impact of livestock grazing and human presence on the habitat use of birds, whereas little is known about the effect of free-ranging
Junqin Hua +5 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Museum specimens provide a rich source of historical DNA, enabling insights into phylogenetic relationships and demographic history of the endangered Koklass Pheasant. Our findings uncovered a previously unrecognized population in Guizhou province and highlighted elevated extinction risk in populations from Anhui province and Southern China, informing ...
Zhiyong Jiang +9 more
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A Citizen\u27s Guide to Protecting East Kingston\u27s Water Resources [PDF]
, 2010 East Kingston is fortunate to still have much of the rural charm that makes living in New Hampshire so special. The ability to take relaxing walks through beautiful natural areas just minutes from your back door is one of the reasons residents love this ...
LaBranche, Julie
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Bird diversity hot spots in a recovering subtropical forest do not align with protected area zoning, instead occurring in experimental zones with low‐intensity human activity. This mismatch is driven by contrasting responses: Abundant core species are supported by productivity, while many species of low frequency are attracted to the habitat ...
Qing Quan +5 more
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The Relationship Between Composition of Undisturbed Grassland Cover and the Presence of the Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) in Northern Ohio [PDF]
, 2007 Pheasant research has largely looked at grassland habitat throughout the landscape as an indicator of suitability of ring-necked pheasant habitat. Empirical and anecdotal evidence shows that increased grasslands percentages has a positive affect on ...
Geboy, Bethany
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Are you sitting comfortably? The political economy of the body [PDF]
, 2009 The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between the mass production of furniture in modern industrial societies and lower back pain (LBP).
Arksey +70 more
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Pheasants and agriculture [PDF]
The Journal of Agricultural Science, 1918 The following Report on the contents of 311 pheasant crops presents the results of a very laborious investigation undertaken by Miss A. F. C.-H. Evershed during 1915 under my direction. Only those who have themselves attempted it will fully appreciate the amount of time and trouble involved in identifying the fragments of insects and plants met with in
Evershed, A. F. C.-H., Warburton, Cecil
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 434-455, June 2026.This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
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Don't break a leg: Running birds from quail to ostrich prioritise leg safety and economy in uneven terrain [PDF]
, 2009 Cursorial ground birds are paragons of bipedal running that span a 500-fold mass range from quail to ostrich. Here we investigate the task-level control priorities of cursorial birds by analysing how they negotiate single-step obstacles that create a ...
Birn-Jeffery, A V +6 more
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