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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
wiley   +1 more source

Patients' views of the healthcare services during power outages in Pretoria Primary Healthcare. [PDF]

J Coll Med S Afr
Mnisi TT, Bongongo T, Nkoane AM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Home foreclosure discounts in auctions without reserve prices

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article estimates foreclosure discounts in Cape Town, South Africa, where, until 2019, foreclosure auctions occurred without reserve prices. Using newly constructed data linking sheriff auction notices to the universe of property transactions, rich property characteristics, and municipal service‐request records, I document large ...
Allan Davids
wiley   +1 more source

Preserving evidence integrity in full file system extractions: Assessing hash inconsistencies and potential solutions

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Smartphone manufacturers' enhanced privacy and security measures, such as File‐Based Encryption (FBE), have disrupted traditional data extraction techniques, necessitating the adoption of Full File System Extraction (FFS). FFS requires booting a smartphone, decrypting its UserData partition, and accessing files individually, a process that ...
Sanghyun Yoo, Yunji Park, Doowon Jeong
wiley   +1 more source

Emergency Preparedness in Older Adults With and Without COPD During Power Outages and Natural Disasters. [PDF]

J Appl Gerontol
Comellas AP, Stapleton EM, Janssen B, Lehmler HJ, Thorne PS, Curnick J, Sprenger K, O'Connell D, Garcia E, Bruening E, Mittal A, Ashida S.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Deterrence Through Resilience and Civil Preparedness: The Comprehensive and Militarised Models of Civil Defence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As hybrid threats blur the line between war and peace and challenge conventional deterrence logics, states increasingly turn to concepts of resilience, civil preparedness and whole‐of‐society as elements of their security strategies. This raises the question of how civilian agency can be viewed as an element of deterrence and what the ...
Agata Mazurkiewicz, Heljä Ossa
wiley   +1 more source

The distributional effects of power outages on regional economies: evidence from dynamic panel data and machine learning models. [PDF]

Ann Reg Sci
Singh S, Keeler Z, Ewing B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Web3 and Demurrage Money

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the application of demurrage money, a concept developed by Silvio Gesell, into Web3. Demurrage money, designed to discourage the hoarding of currency and prevent economic stagnation and concentrations in wealth, offers a potential remedy for the problems of traditional fiat and gold‐backed monetary systems.
George Lovegrove
wiley   +1 more source

Rescue of mitochondrial power outages with γPNA-based miR-122 inhibitor. [PDF]

Mol Ther Nucleic Acids
Mukherjee K, Bhattacharyya SN.
europepmc   +1 more source

On the Destruction and Humanitarianisation of the Health System in Gaza and the Need for a Biopolitical Bioethics

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Israel's destruction and ‘humanitarianisation’ of Palestinian health systems, arguing that this should be understood as an instance of ‘necropolitics,’ as conceived by Achille Mbembe. We review the extensive, long‐term destruction of health systems in Palestine before 7 October 2023 and the catastrophic acceleration of that
Mohammad Salaymeh, Arianne Shahvisi, Sohail Jannesari   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source