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Strain accumulation and surface deformation along the San Andreas, California [PDF]

Stressing and rupture of a locked zone adjacent to a creeping fault segment was studied with special reference to strength heterogeneity depthwise and along-strike.
Li, Victor C.
core   +1 more source

‘CLOSING THE CARBON LOOP’: Climate Policy Discourses and the Material Politics of Municipal Waste‐to‐Biofuel Programs

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Waste‐to‐biofuel (WTB) programs have gained popularity as a municipal circular economy and an emissions reduction strategy. The upgrading of biofuels to renewable natural gas (RNG) has drawn particular interest, as RNG can displace conventional fossil fuels in any existing natural gas end use and be delivered through existing pipeline ...
Taylor Davey
wiley   +1 more source

InSAR analysis reveals insights into the Ms 6.2 earthquake rupture and tectonic dynamics of the northeast margin of the Qinghai‒Tibet plateau. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Sun G, Guo F, Guo X, Li M, Peng B.
europepmc   +1 more source

HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

Controls on hydrocarbon accumulation in ultra-deep carbonate reservoirs of the Ordovician Yingshan Formation, Catake Uplift, Tarim Basin. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Wang L, Yang R, Geng F, Jiang Z, Zhang H, Zhang Q.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +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

Stochastic poromechanical analysis forecasts a notable exceedance probability for the 2017 Pohang, South Korea, <i>M</i> _w 5.5 earthquake. [PDF]

Commun Earth Environ
Wu H, Vilarrasa V, Parisio F, Alcolea A, Meier P, Carrera J, Saaltink M.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Affordances, dread, and online fraud: Exploring and advancing social learning theory in online contexts

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigate how the affordances of an online context shape the processes of social learning. Using a dataset of more than 11,000 posts from the fraud subdread on the dark web forum Dread, we examine how affordances of platform governance, connectivity, anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and limited oversight influence the components ...
Fangzhou Wang, Timothy Dickinson
wiley   +1 more source

Updated seismotectonic framework of Abu Dabbab Egypt based on focal mechanisms and stress inversion. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Abdelazim M, Youssef SE, Gaber H, Mohamed GA, Soliman MS, Yassien MH, Hamada M, Elkhouly SH.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source