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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

Seismogenic strength and anatomy of mahendragarh-dehradun fault: implication to seismic risk. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Gera SK, Ammani A, Sandeep, Singh P, Mishra OP.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

A large-scale seismic risk assessment framework using enhanced FEMA P-58 and Bayesian network inference: a case study of District 2, Tehran. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Hajirostami R, Banazadeh M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Engineering Apprenticeships: Youth Transitions, Industrial Capital and the Role of Working‐Class Households

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using biographical methods, the study explores the lives of 34 young people undertaking engineering apprenticeships in Teesside, Northeast England. It examines why working‐class youth in a deindustrialised region might be attracted to engineering, how they might secure apprenticeship, and the invaluable role households play in orchestrating ...
Anoop Nayak, Graham Gaunt
wiley   +1 more source

Optimized seismic risk mitigation in pipeline routing using a metaheuristic GIS based approach. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Alavi SH, Mashayekhi M, Zolfaghari M.
europepmc   +1 more source

SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT FOR STEEL FRAMED BUILDINGS

, 2012
[[abstract]]The object of this study is to propose, develop and apply an approach to determine the expected seismic loss and probability of exceeding the loss (i.e. seismic risk) for steel framed buildings.
Chiu, Chien-Kuo, 張惠雲
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Future of edge AI in biodiversity monitoring

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Many ecological decisions are slowed by the gap between collecting and analysing biodiversity information. Edge computing moves data processing closer to the sensor, with edge artificial intelligence (AI) using AI models for data processing and selective data transfer.
Aude Vuilliomenet, Kate E. Jones, Duncan Wilson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening hospital resilience to earthquakes: a public health review of seismic risk reduction programs in the Middle East. [PDF]

Int J Emerg Med
Almukhlifi Y, Alsulami M, Alharbi A, Howsawi T, Hussain A, Alfageeh R, Alzahrani A, Alshareef E, Salah A, Radey R, Sultan M.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Seasonal Habitat Selection by a Threatened Ungulate in an Industrializing Boreal Landscape

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Understanding habitat selection by Threatened wood bison in landscapes characterized by anthropogenic disturbance is important for conservation planning. During summer and winter, bison selected for linear (e.g., roads, seismic lines, pipelines) and polygonal (e.g., well sites) disturbances, unless there were high densities of linear features.
Lisa J. Koetke, Christopher J. Lewis, Ingebjørg Jean K. Hansen, Thomas S. Jung, Chris J. Johnson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source