Does Proactivity Affect Insurance Solidarity and Individual Responsibility?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, the insurance industry has been experimenting with technological innovations that deeply affect its business model and social function. This article explores the use of digital technologies to monitor policyholders' behaviour and personalise their insurance coverage.
Alberto Cevolini, Elena Esposito
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Detection of Ship Wakes in Dynamic Sea Surface Video Sequences: A Data-Driven Approach
Remote SensingIn order to enhance the detection of maritime vessel targets, considering the causal relationship between the motion of vessels and their wakes, as well as the characteristics of ship wakes such as large diffusion range and distinctive features, this ...
Chengcheng Yu +3 more
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Low X-Ray Luminosity Galaxy Clusters. II. Optical properties and morphological content at 0.18 < z < 0.70 [PDF]
, 2013 This is the second of a series of papers on low X-ray luminosity galaxy clusters, in which we present the $r^\prime$, $g^\prime$ and $i^\prime$ photometry obtained with GMOS-IMAGE at Gemini North and South telescopes for seven systems in the redshift ...
Alonso, Maria Victoria +7 more
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What About Eco‐Populism? A Neglected Historical Tradition
Constellations, EarlyView.
Federico Tarragoni
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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Unchecked: How Wal-Mart Uses its Might to Block Port Security [PDF]
, 2006 [Excerpt] In spite of the vulnerability of our ports and of supply networks around the world, Wal-Mart and RILA have—time and again since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001—opposed new maritime and port security rules.
AFL-CIO
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Airborne forward pointing UV Rayleigh lidar for remote clear air turbulence (CAT) detection: system design and performance [PDF]
, 2016 A high-performance airborne UV Rayleigh lidar system was developed within the European project DELICAT. With its forward-pointing architecture it aims at demonstrating a novel detection scheme for clear air turbulence (CAT) for an aeronautics safety ...
Barny, Hervé +5 more
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Foreign Aid at a Crossroads: How Funding Cuts Reshape Global Development Cooperation
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent aid budget reductions among major donor countries have reignited debates over the future of international development cooperation, with several commentators warning of an impending collapse of the aid sector. Engaging with historical and critical development literature on aid cycles, donor motives, and the evolution of Official ...
Steffi Hamann
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“One More for Luck”: The Destruction of U971 by HMCS Haida and HMS Eskimo, 24 June 1944 [PDF]
, 2012 On the evening of 23 June 1944, HMCS Haida and HMS Eskimo set out from Plymouth, operational base of the 10th Destroyer Flotilla (10th DF), to conduct a sweep of the Western Approaches to the English Channel.
Gough, Barry M., Woods, James A.
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The Detectability of Submarine's Turbulent Wake on the sea surface using Ship-Wake Theory
The Journal of the Korean Institute of Information and Communication Engineering, 2011 The width of a submarine`s turbulent wake, using Shear-free and Ship wake theory, is proportional to If we assume submarine`s length, width, velocity are 65m, 6.5m, 6kts respectively, and the minimum diffusion of turbulent wake ; , the width of wake behind the submarine is about 20m at 1.2km, 30m at 15km when there is no breaking waves on the sea ...
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