Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article is an ethnographic investigation into acts of intimidation and threats. Theoretically, it dialogues with ‘racket’ – a key analytical term in the sociology of domination, state‐making, and mafias. The anthropology of power, violence, and crime has paid scant attention to the morphology of threats and the ways interpersonal intimidation ...
Lucia Michelutti
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Using System Dynamics in warehouse management: a fast fashion case-study [PDF]
, 2011 Cagliano, Anna Corinna +3 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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An Algorithm for Simulation of Waiting Systems with Different Types and Variable Number of Parallel Working Stations Each Having its Own Queue [PDF]
, 2012 Ion Florea, Lucian Mircea Sasu
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BEYOND ‘BAD DENSITY’ AND TERRITORIAL STIGMA: An Infrastructure Access Lens on Suburban Exclusion
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Segregation and social exclusion in postwar suburban housing estates are typically addressed as problems of residential location. For decades, postwar suburbs in all corners of the world have been targeted as designated sites of punitive urban intervention, grounded in territorial stigma and normative notions of density.
André Klaassen, Greet De Block
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TERRITORIALIZING POWER: The Politics of Presidential Projects in Antananarivo, Madagascar
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale infrastructure projects have become a defining feature of African urbanism. The study of the surge in infrastructure investments has largely been conducted against the backdrop of a purported ‘neoliberal global modernity’ in which cities compete to attract international investments.
Fanny Voélin, Lars Buur
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Velocity‐based stowage policy for a semiautomated fulfillment system
Production and Operations Management, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Online retail fulfillment is increasingly performed by semiautomated fulfillment systems in which inventory is stored in mobile pods that are moved by robotic drives. In this paper, we develop a model that explores the benefits of velocity‐based stowage policies for semiautomated fulfillment systems, also known as robotic mobile fulfillment ...
Tolga Cezik +2 more
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About closed queuing networks with variable number of queues
, 2005 Igor Tananko
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Flexible Queuing Model for Number of Active Users in Cognitive Radio Network Environment [PDF]
, 2018 Ahsan Tanveer +3 more
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