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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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A NB-IoT access scheme based on Beta distribution
物联网学报, 2021 As one of the emerging technologies of low-power wide-area Internet of things, narrow band Internet of things (NB-IoT) faces the pressure and challenge of massive connections of terminals.Aiming at practical application scenarios, a preamble allocation ...
Mengya LI, Zhengquan LI
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IEEE Access, 2020 This paper investigates the detection error of radio frequency (RF)-watermark type transmitter identification (TxID) signal in a single frequency network (SFN).
Sungjun Ahn +4 more
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Tewdwr: Eponymous Ancestor of the Tudor Dynasty
History, EarlyView.Abstract The standard derivation of the dynastic name Tudor from Welsh Tudur, surname of the grandfather of Henry VII, is problematic on phonological grounds, as well as the fact that Tudur was never used as a surname by Henry himself, being attributed to him only by his enemies with implication of lowly origins.
DAFYDD JOHNSTON
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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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International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, 2015 Ajit Kumar Verma +2 more
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De‐Dollarization Is a Plausible Outcome of the New Washington Consensus
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A trend towards de‐dollarization of the global economy in which the US dollar ceases to be used as the world's reserve currency for international transactions confronts some of the existing structures of international economic law, built upon the rules set out by US‐led organizations like the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank. This article will
David Collins
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines transformations in contemporary global migration governance, with a particular focus on the effectiveness, robustness and democratic credentials of the UN Global Compacts on Migration and on Refugees. We examine valuable innovations, such as the workings of regularly organised platforms, which adopt a ‘whole of society ...
Felix Peerboom +2 more
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Real-Valued Orthogonal Sequences for Iterative Channel Estimation in MIMO-FBMC Systems
IEEE Access, 2019 In this paper, we present a novel sequence design for efficient channel estimation in multiple input multiple output filterbank multicarrier (MIMO-FBMC) system with offset QAM modulation. Our proposed sequences, transmitted over one FBMC/OQAM symbol, are
Jing Zhang +5 more
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT ‘Middle Australia’ became a ubiquitous term of social categorisation and political positioning during the latter decades of the 20th century. This article examines how this concept was variously used in the metropolitan print media in the guises of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne, including in their reporting of federal and ...
Chris Beer
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