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

open access: yesThe 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

A framework for capturing indirect impacts in site‐level screening for biodiversity risks

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Site‐based industrial operations such as mining, oil and gas extraction and renewable energy development are associated with many direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity. Consideration of the full range of these impacts when selecting a buffer distance to approximate the Area of Influence (AoI) of a project is critical for effective ...
Divya Narain   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early warning signal for river‐borne diseases with almost no data

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Effective management of emerging river‐borne diseases requires early prediction of pathogen spatial distributions. However, data on pathogen locations are notoriously rare in the beginning of disease outbreaks and insufficient to feed existing predictive models.
Pouria Ramazi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Submarine Active Faults and Morpho-Tectonics Around the Iberian Margins: Seismic and Tsunamis Hazards

open access: gold, 2021
Luı́s Somoza   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

Thresholding species distribution models: Simple approaches for land‐use planning in multifunctional landscapes

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Species distribution models (SDMs) are often used to understand changes to species' distributions and their habitats under different land‐use scenarios, enabling decision makers to prioritize areas for management efforts and balance environmental conservation with socio‐economic demands on the landscape.
Hossam Eldien Abdel Moniem   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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