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Polite Broadcast Gossip for IOT Configuration Management
2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), 2017In this paper we present a protocol which can be used to form the basis of an Internet of Things (IOT) configuration management system. We motivate this discussion by focusing on a large and definitive class of IOT systems, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and some important applications. We present a polite broadcast gossip dissemination algorithm which
Michael Breza, Julie McCann
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Political Configuration and Political Dynamics
The Review of Politics, 1961Our mind strives for statements of configuration and statements of consequence. Where different things stand in relation to one another, that is configuration. How successive events arise from one another, that is consequence. We grasp far more easily disposition in space than process in time; further an incomplete “geographic” account can be valid as ...
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2020
Abstract This chapter examines how the ex-colonials organized, what political influence they achieved, and why their efforts stalled. Anticipating elections, their leaders mounted social and cultural events with support from local politicians. These events maintained collective identity and social networks.
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Abstract This chapter examines how the ex-colonials organized, what political influence they achieved, and why their efforts stalled. Anticipating elections, their leaders mounted social and cultural events with support from local politicians. These events maintained collective identity and social networks.
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Changing Political Configurations in Swaziland
The Journal of Modern African Studies, 1966As Swaziland approaches independence and stands poised to enter the complex political arena of southern Africa, its internal political configurations are changing rapidly and profoundly. The previously irresistible coalition between the traditionally based Swazi Imbokodvo National Movement and the predominantly South African-oriented, conservative ...
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You (plural): Political configurations of punk’s DIY ethos
Punk & Post-Punk, 2022This article traces the evolution of punk’s do it yourself (DIY) ethos from an emphasis on individualist-contrarian to collectivist-participatory forms following its initial commercial period (c. 1977–80). The focus is on 1980s American hardcore as locus of shifts in music content, media production and distribution, and venue infrastructure, which ...
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Configuring the 'body politic': violence, political crimes and justice in Ethiopia
Africa Insight, 2004Political differences in Ethiopia have historically led to violent confrontations. However, it is important to understand the motives behind the violence, how its perpetrators justified it and how future governments propose to deal with it.
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Restructuring in Greater Central Asia: Changing Political Configurations
Asian Survey, 1992Central, Southwest, and South Asia-Greater Central Asia-seem to be restructuring. However, defining the emerging political situation in this vast region and estimating the future direction of developments are impossible tasks if events are viewed merely as unrelated and disparate. A longer view may expose a broad pattern.
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CONFIGURING POLITICAL REPRESSION: ANTI-CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT IN MISSISSIPPI*
Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 2019Dominant approaches to political repression, which rely on linear analytic models and focus on discrete state agencies or repressive forms, obscure the complex organization and impacts of enforcement networks. Building on recent investigations of collective action fields and arenas of political contention, we develop a relational approach to political ...
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Dis/ordering politics: urban riots and the socio-political configuration of contemporary Niger
The Journal of Modern African Studies, 2019AbstractThis article focuses on ‘generic moments of becoming’, historical sedimentation and patterns of recurrent protests to explain the structural drivers that sparked the dramatic increase in urban protests and riots in Niger between 2013 and 2018. It identifies several factors in the country's socio-political configuration as particularly important
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South Africa in The Changing Political Configurations of Africa
African Studies Review, 2009This is not so much a review of the collection of essays edited by Adebajo, Adedeji, and Landsberg, as it is a review of the state of the fields reflected in these essay: conflict and development studies, economics, international relations, political science and political economy, regionalisms, and so on.
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