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Monetary integration and purchasing power parity between Singapore and Britain during the 19th century

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the development of purchasing power parity between Singapore and Britain during the 19th century. Using new monthly data from 1831 to 1872, it finds that real exchange rates became more stable after the late 1850s. This convergence was supported by growing connections in international bullion markets, which reduced exchange
Atsushi Kobayashi
wiley   +1 more source

Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancement Processing of High-Resolution Spaceborne SAR Wake Based on Equivalent Multi-Channel Technology

open access: yesApplied Sciences
Ship wake detection plays a crucial role in compensating for target detection failures caused by defocusing or displacement in SAR images due to vessel motion.
Lei Yu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Programmable 3-Channel Acoustic Wake-Up Interface Enabling Always-On Detection of Underwater Events within 20 µA

open access: yesProceedings, 2018
We present an always-on acoustic wake-up sensor interface, designed for prolonging the autonomy of energy-hungry hardware for underwater acoustic surveillance.
Dinko Oletic   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microwave responses of the western North Atlantic [PDF]

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Features and objects in the Western North Atlantic Ocean - the Eastern Seaboard of the United States - are observed from Earth orbit by passive microwaves.
Girard, M. A., Stacey, J. M.
core   +1 more source

Unlocking the Tyranny of Modern Thinking: Keys From Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Buddhism

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT One barrier to mental health and a common focus of psychotherapy is the tendency to identify with relentless, often self‐critical thinking that searches for faults, becomes easily distracted, and pulls individuals away from the present moment.
Barbara Carter
wiley   +1 more source

Development and test of video systems for airborne surveillance of oil spills [PDF]

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Five video systems - potentially useful for airborne surveillance of oil spills - were developed, flight tested, and evaluated. The systems are: (1) conventional black and white TV, (2) conventional TV with false color, (3) differential TV, (4) prototype
Arvesen, J. C.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Adaptive Surface Ship-Wake Detection Based on Improved One-Class Support Vector Machine

open access: yesInternational Congress of Mathematicans, 2015
minimal optimization; ship-wake detector. Abstract. It is difficult to collect bubble-wake signals from different ocean environments caused by various types of ship.
Cheng Wang, Tingfei Yang, Q. Meng
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Trading in troubled times: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic, military coup, and Chinese border closure on the Kachin amber industry

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Covid‐19, border closure, and the military coup on the mining and trading of Kachin amber in northern Myanmar. Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have dramatically affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Myanmar.
Seng Lawn Dan, Alessandro Rippa
wiley   +1 more source

Development of remote sensing technology in New Zealand, part 1. Seismotectonic, structural, volcanologic and geomorphic study of New Zealand, part 2. Indigenous forest assessment, part 3. Mapping land use and environmental studies in New Zealand, part 4. New Zealand forest service LANDSAT projects, part 5. Vegetation map and landform map of Aupouri Peninsula, Northland, part 6. Geographical applications of LANDSAT mapping, part 7 [PDF]

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The author has identified the following significant results. Inspection of pixels obtained from LANDSAT of New Zealand revealed that not only can ships and their wakes be detected, but that information on the size, state of motion, and direction of ...
Mcgreevy, M. G.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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