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Robust Feature Matching for 3D Point Clouds with Progressive Consistency Voting
Sensors, 2022 Feature matching for 3D point clouds is a fundamental yet challenging problem in remote sensing and 3D computer vision. However, due to a number of nuisances, the initial feature correspondences generated by matching local keypoint descriptors may ...
Siwen Quan +3 more
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
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Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2015 The revolutionary process that began in Egypt in January 2011 has given rise to a new actor in Egyptian political space: the voter living abroad. This research note discusses remote voting Egyptians living in France. It is based on an ongoing field study
Célia Lamblin
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Cougar density on the Oregon Coast: Using dead recovery modeling in an open population
The Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.The primary objective of this study was to determine cougar density in western Oregon. Our results demonstrate that integrating DNA collected via bio‐darting, mandatory hunter‐harvest check‐ins, and GPS collar data into the OPCR2 is a reliable method for estimating cougar densities in densely forested coastal systems.
Jason A. Kirchner +4 more
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The Bazaar as a Model for Knowledge Work
Knowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents fieldwork that extends existing metaphors of knowledge work as a process shaped by hierarchical or market forces. A qualitative, ethnographic study of six knowledge‐intensive businesses in two countries identifies striking parallels with the Middle Eastern bazaar in contrast to Western impersonal markets and hierarchies. We
Reed Elliot Nelson +2 more
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Building Party Support Abroad: Turkish Diaspora Organisations in Germany and the UK
Politics and GovernanceThis article covers a unique form of political mobilisation within the Turkey-originated diasporic community in Europe that formed after Turkey introduced external voting in 2012.
Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg +1 more
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The Journal of Engineering, 2019 Cloud detection is a fundamental yet challenging topic in remote-sensing image processing. The authors propose a method for multi-dimensional feature extraction and superpixel segmentation, and use a voting-based clustering ensemble to capture the whole ...
Yueting Shi +3 more
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When a Week Is Not A Week: How Temporal Boundaries Shift Regulatory Focus and Consumer Preference
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Does consumer perception of a sales event change if it falls across a calendar boundary (e.g., next month) versus within the current month, holding objective time constant? We investigate this question in the context of Cyber Monday, the global shopping event occurring the Monday after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.
David DeFranza, Promothesh Chatterjee
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Development of Legal Regulation of Electronic Vote in Russia
Управленческое консультирование, 2018 This article discusses the features of the evolution of legal regulation of e-voting in Russia. The article deals with the emergence of e-voting, the first experiments on its implementation in the Russian electoral practices. The author analyzed of legal
Yaroslav Valeryevich Antonov
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