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ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud +4 more
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Active Suspension Control for Improved Ride Comfort and Vehicle Performance Using HHO-Based Type-I and Type-II Fuzzy Logic. [PDF]
Abut T, Salkim E, Tugal H.
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From Human Hands to Machine Minds: Financing AI‐Driven Entrepreneurship in Reward‐Based Crowdfunding
ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption on financing performance in reward‐based crowdfunding. Using Kickstarter data from US projects, we find that AI projects have lower pledged amounts, receive fewer donations and attract fewer backers.
Zirui Song, Yihui Lan, Yuan George Shan
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Women's land ownership in Victoria, 1880–1930: Contributions to a fuller picture
Abstract Responding to calls for more research on Australian women's property ownership this article draws on underutilised shire rate books. The data challenge stubborn historiographical assumptions that women's land ownership in federation‐era Victoria was insignificant.
Kathryn M. Hunter
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Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal
Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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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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The political consequences of Africa's mobile revolution
Abstract What are the political consequences of rising domestic connectivity? I study this question in Sub‐Saharan Africa, asking how mobile technology shapes public opinion in geographically isolated communities. For remote rural populations, mobile devices increase contact with physically distant social networks, through regular phone calls with ...
Alex Yeandle
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Injustice, relational violence, and the foster system
Abstract Political theorists have not paid sustained attention to the foster system or treated it as a political institution. Despite this, scholars and social movement advocates have identified the system as a site of social and political injustice. This paper develops an account of racial, class, and relational injustice in the contemporary US foster
Emma Ebowe
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The unbearable (financial) burdens of parenting
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Alya Guseva
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