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Methodological Perspectives on British Commercial Telegraphy and the Colonial Struggle over Democratic Connections in Gibraltar, 1914–1941 [PDF]
This article examines the privatization of telegraphy in the British Empire from the perspective of Gibraltar, an overseas territory in the Mediterranean. While the history of international telegraphy is typically written from a world-systems perspective,
Bryce Peake
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The singing arc: the oldest memristor? [PDF]
On April 30th 2008, the journal Nature announced that the missing circuit element, postulated thirty-seven years before by Professor Leon O. Chua has been found. Thus, after the capacitor, the resistor and the inductor, the existence of a fourth fundamental element of electronic circuits called "memristor" was established.
Ginoux, Jean-Marc, Rossetto, Bruno
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Experimental Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony—IX [PDF]
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Louis Gerard Pacent+1 more
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60 years of the Antarctic Treaty – history and celebration in radio waves [PDF]
The Antarctic Treaty, successfully negotiated and signed in 1959, entered into force after ratification by the 12 original signatory countries in 1961.
V. Strecke, V. Strecke
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Around the Wire: Telegraphic Infrastructure and Gothic Energies in Late Victorian Britain
This article explores a link between gutta-percha, the natural South-East Asian latex used nearly exclusively as an insulation for nineteenth-century British telegraph cables, and the development of electromagnetic field theory. Field theory emerged from
Kameron Sanzo
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This study aims to examine the feasibility of telerobotic surgery by validating the communication environment and local/remote robot operation. The performance of remote surgery over a commercial line was equivalent to that of the local environment. Therefore, remote surgery using a commercial line can be performed safely, indicating that we have the ...
Yoshiya Takahashi+7 more
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Housing the homeless: How revisiting the 1940s assists the struggle
Abstract A major obstacle in the political work of housing the homeless is convincing voters and lawmakers that housing is a right and should be available to all without conditions. This paper seeks to assist that project by showing that the tension between rights and conditions has a history. It focusses on the pivotal 1940s, which saw the first major
Anne O'Brien
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Politics of evidence: Think tanks and the Academies Act
Abstract Previous research has identified political ideology as central in the landmark Academies Act (2010). This article further analyses how politics of evidence played its part in the policy process by focusing on long‐term structural changes and preferences among policymakers. The article draws on policymaker interviews after the reform, a mapping
Jaakko Kauko
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Raciolinguistic policy assemblages and white supremacy in teacher education
Abstract Raciolinguistic ideologies are sets of beliefs about language which frame racialised communities as displaying linguistic deficiencies which require remediation. These ideologies are tethered to European colonialism and white supremacist logics which have long been normalised and actively written into teacher education policy in England.
Ian Cushing
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