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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

Dutch dilemma: Housing prices and flood risk exposure

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article studies the impact of flood risk exposure on housing prices in a major river delta. Analyzing 1.8 million property transactions from 1998 to 2023 in the Netherlands, we find an average price discount of 1.1%. We observe considerable heterogeneity in price effects driven by exposure intensity, institutional settings that vary ...
Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok, Philibert Weenink   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How much are you willing to pay to avoid lockdowns? Evidence from the real estate market

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract In response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, numerous countries implemented lockdowns. In Victoria, Australia, a unique two‐tier system was employed, segregating areas with a Ring of Steel boundary and imposing additional restrictions within. This study focuses on the impact of lockdowns on housing prices and rents, exploring whether people are ...
Jian Liang, Chyi Lin Lee, Qiang Li
wiley   +1 more source

Use of alternate upland nesting habitat reduces brood parasitism in an endangered bird

Avian Conservation and Ecology
The Least Bell’s Vireo ( Vireo bellii pusillus ) is a federally endangered songbird restricted to Southern California, USA, and Baja California, Mexico. Historically abundant, it suffered a catastrophic population decline during the twentieth century due
Kevin B Clark, Kimberly Ferree
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Living Low and Dry: Costs of and Resilience to Soil Hydric Stress in a Fossorial Amphisbaenian Reptile

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Soil drought imposes moderate, temporary costs on a strictly fossorial amphisbaenian reptile. However, these animals seem to cope with, at least, moderately short droughts thanks to their peculiar adaptations to living in an underground environment. ABSTRACT The physiological traits of animals can be strongly influenced by climatic fluctuations, and ...
José Martín, Álvaro Navarro‐Castilla, Alejandro de la Concha, José Javier Cuervo, Isabel Barja, Pilar López   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

2023 Jishishan Earthquake-triggered river terrace landslide enabled by tectonic and human activities

npj Natural Hazards
The continued increase in demand for food is such that flood-irrigation-based agricultural techniques are not expected to change in the future.
Zonglin Zhang, Runqiang Zeng, Shufen Zhao, Ziran Wei, Xingmin Meng, Zhao Long, Xiaorui Wang, Tianjun Qi, Ruihuan Su, Bing Wu, Jianhua Ma, Dongxia Yue, Guan Chen, Yi Zhang, Yajun Li, Yan Zhao   +15 more
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A revised terrace stratigraphy and chronology for the Little Ouse River as a framework for interpreting the late Lower and early Middle Palaeolithic of central East Anglia, UK

Quaternary Environments and Humans
The Breckland of central East Anglia has a Pleistocene geological sequence spanning c. 1 million years, providing a framework for assessing changes in human technology and behaviour within a single changing palaeolandscape.
Rob Davis, Simon G. Lewis, Marcus Hatch, Nick Ashton, Pierre Voinchet, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Luke Dale, Frederick Foulds, Aaron Rawlinson, Mark White   +9 more
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What Was ‘Middle Australia’? Social Categorisation and Political Positioning in the Late‐20th Century

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
wiley   +1 more source

Morphostructural evolution of the Labe and Jizera rivers confluence area (the Bohemian massif, Czechia)

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica
This article investigates the morphostructural evolution of the Labe and Jizera rivers confluence area in the Bohemian Massif of Czechia. The main stages of morphostructural evolution are identified and related landform patterns are described.
Tereza Steklá, Jan Kalvoda
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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante, Armel Lekeufack, Nina Tamara Barbosa Ponce, Roger Amos Kañaa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source