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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

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
wiley   +1 more source

Towards national risk-targeted seismic hazard maps for mainland China

Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk
The global adoption of risk-targeted hazard models as the basis for seismic design has significantly increased over the past decade. In contrast, the current Chinese National Seismic Design Code relies on a uniform hazard map, which does not ensure ...
Meng Zhang, Hua Pan, Yaohu Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

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, Christopher J. Lewis, Ingebjørg Jean K. Hansen, Thomas S. Jung, Chris J. Johnson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Probabilistic estimation of the source component of seismic hazard in North-Eastern Brazil

Heliyon
Stable continental regions pose unique challenges for conducting Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis because the earthquake activity driving mechanisms are poorly understood.
J.A.S. Fonsêca, S. Lasocki, A.F. do Nascimento   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Machine Learning and Seismic Hazard: A Combination of Probabilistic Approaches for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis

Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) integrates seismology with invitation of civil engineering. Allin Cornell’s 1968 work, developed with Dr. Emilio Rosenblueth and Dr. Luis Esteban Maraboto, revolutionized earthquake engineering by making seismology practical for construction.
openaire   +1 more source

Dragonfly functional connectivity responses are dynamic relative to drought

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
During drought, dragonfly species richness decreases. Yet, dragonfly assemblages show a higher propensity for dispersal during drought. Dispersal pathways vary among the wet and dry periods, and relative to temporal changes in the landscape. While some dragonfly species can traverse plantation compartments, conservation corridors facilitate functional ...
Charl Deacon, Michael J. Samways, James S. Pryke   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the Stringency of Building Height Regulations

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study proposes a novel methodology to measure the stringency of building height regulations. This measure gauges the difference in building heights with and without regulations. The primary challenge is to recover unobserved building heights in the absence of regulations.
Yusuke Adachi
wiley   +1 more source

A review on probabilistic seismic hazard analysis of Nepal

Journal of Engineering and Sciences
Different research papers on Nepal's probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) have been reviewed to compare the methodology used and the results obtained. Multiple types of research related to PSHA have been performed so far in Nepal, each using different source models.
Agriya Sagar Pandit, Chetana Subedi, Asmita Adhikari, Pawan Chhetri   +3 more
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The Rising Tide Lifts Some Interest Rates: Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Loan Pricing

The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Banks adjust loan spreads after observing natural disasters linked to climate change. We isolate this updating process by identifying loans to borrowers at risk of, but not directly affected by, such disasters. Loan spreads for these borrowers spike in both primary and secondary markets, while no such updating occurs for non–climate‐related ...
RICARDO CORREA, AI HE, CHRISTOPH HERPFER, UGUR LEL   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for Bagan (Myanmar)

Acta Geophysica
AbstractFollowing the 2016 Chauk earthquake in Bagan (Myanmar), numerous old pagodas and temples suffered severe damage. This research presents a study on the seismic hazard analysis of the Bagan city in Myanmar, based on a probabilistic framework focussing on analysing 43 temples with their associated local soil information.
Büşra Gögen, Shaghayegh Karimzadeh, Paulo B. Lourenço   +2 more
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