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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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La televisión digital terrestre: estudio sobre la nueva televisión

, 2013
El objetivo principal de este proyecto es explicar las novedades que trae la aparición de un nuevo formato de televisión, la televisión digital terrestre (TDT).
Vigueras Guillén, Juan Pedro
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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Inversión en avances tecnológicos y domótica: claves del éxito en la televisión digital

, 2005
El avance de la tecnología conllevará también un progreso en la facilidad de manejo de los dispositivos electrónico y, por tanto, un uso de ellos más extensivo en el hogar.
Lavilla Muñoz, David
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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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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
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Análisis del proceso de transición de la televisión análoga a la televisión digital en Colombia.

, 2014
Monografía que tiene como propósito describir el proceso de transición de la televisión análoga a la televisión digital en camino al Apagón Análogo en Colombia.
Medina Mendoza, Martha Claudia
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Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life‐Course in Shanghai, China

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
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Satellite distribution network of information support as a component of the national satellite communication system

Технологія та конструювання в електронній апаратурі, 2004
The paper presents the technical capabilities of the state satellite distribution network of information support (SDNIS) being developed in Ukraine for the distribution of television and radio programs.
I. V. Gorbach, A. A. Makarov
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Index Insurance and Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Southern Mali

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate extremes increasingly threaten food security in low‐ and middle‐income countries, where vulnerable smallholder farmers often lack access to risk mitigation tools. Although index‐based insurance has been promoted as a promising adaptation measure to climate shocks, evidence on its welfare effects, especially on food security, remains ...
Anna Mader, Tim Ölkers, Oliver Mußhoff
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