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When Urgency Drops: Temporal Consciousness and the Choreography of Dying

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT In the hospital, the transition from fighting for life to preparing for death involves not only a shift in medical repertoires but also a profound transformation in temporal experience. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Canadian intensive care unit, this article examines how the tempo of care, its rhythms, urgencies, and pauses shapes ...
Louise Chartrand
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Rapid face recognition using hashing [PDF]

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We propose a face recognition approach based on hashing. The approach yields comparable recognition rates with the random ℓ1 approach, which is considered the state-of-the-art. But our method is much faster: it is up to 150 times faster than on the YaleB
Shen, Chunhua, Qinfeng Shi, Hanxi Li, Shen, C., Li, Hanxi, Shi, Qinfeng, Chunhua Shen, Li, H., Shi, Q.   +8 more
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PERIODIZING GEOLOGICALLY OUTWITH (AND WITHOUT?) THE ANTHROPOCENE: PASTS, AGENCIES, AND THE TERRESTRIAL

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 344-367, September 2026.
ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
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New trajectories in the production of environmental knowledge about river restoration: contrasting scientific practices in Rhône River research

Restoration Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 7, September 2026.
Abstract Introduction Restoration ecology relies on interactions between scientists and managers, yet these interactions are shaped by broader academic, social, and political contexts that influence how scientific knowledge is produced and mobilized. Objective This article aims to examine how scientific knowledge is produced within a long‐term river ...
Basile Cousin, Émeline Comby
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Name It and Its Yours: Toponym Disputes Between Native and Settler Colonials in North America

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Humans tend to mark their presence and thus their lands by naming charismatic places such as mountains, canyons, rivers, and lakes. Toponyms is the term for marking places with names.
Richard Stoffle, Kathleen Van Vlack, Simon Larsson, Yoko Kugo, Steve Baumann, Alex Wolfson   +5 more
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Vitex oreadica and V. umbellata (Lamiaceae): two new species from Cerrado and Atlantic forest of Brazil

Nordic Journal of Botany, Volume 2026, Issue 8, August 2026.
Vitex L. is a pantropical genus of Lamiaceae comprising 209 taxa. Brazil harbors 35 species, representing nearly 50% of the genus richness in the Neotropics, with the Amazon showing the highest richness, followed by the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado domains. Nevertheless, most taxonomic studies of the genus have been conducted in Africa and Asia.
Thaís Teixeira Conegiro, Guilherme Medeiros Antar, Carla Poleselli Bruniera   +2 more
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LLM-enhanced disaster geolocalization using implicit geoinformation from multimodal data: A case study of Hurricane Harvey

International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation
Timely and accurate geolocalization of natural disasters is crucial for effective emergency response, which is foundational for risk mitigation and resilience development.
Wenping Yin, Yong Xue, Ziqi Liu, Hao Li, Martin Werner   +4 more
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Egg‐Carrying and Cheliceral Comb in Ibaloniinae Harvestmen From the Solomon Islands (Opiliones: Podoctidae)

Austral Entomology, Volume 65, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Four new species of Ibaloniinae harvestmen are described from the Solomon Islands, Melanesia. Based on the original diagnosis of Euibalonius Roewer, 1915, and description of E. maculatus (Roewer, 1915), this material appeared related to that genus. However, examination of syntype photographs of the type species E.
Adriano B. Kury, Glauco Machado, Bruno A. Buzatto, Esau Kekeubata, Miguel Medrano   +4 more
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Of cables and threads

American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 283-295, August 2026.
Abstract Over the past two decades, gondola lifts have become central to interventions in urban Latin America's auto‐constructed peripheries. As cable car urbanism reshapes the city's edge, it raises fundamental questions about the notion of the “urban fabric” as a sociomaterial practice, an epistemology, and a site of politics.
Federico Pérez Fernández
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7000 Years of Aboriginal Mining at Sugarloaf Hill in the Riverland Region of South Australia

Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 277-311, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Silcrete and chert are commonly represented in Aboriginal archaeological lithic assemblages across large parts of the southwestern Murray‐Darling Basin (MDB). In South Australia (SA), these materials were sourced from a series of quarries located along the incised course of the Murray River through the upper Riverland region.
Craig Westell, Ian Moffat, Richard Fullagar, Amy Roberts, Justine Kemp, Mike Morley, Marc Fairhead, Simon Hoad, River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation   +8 more
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