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From “Mirror Flower, Water Moon” to Multi‐Task Visual Prospective Representation Learning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Indoor Mapless Navigation

open access: yesJournal of Field Robotics, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 655-680, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Vision‐based deep learning models have been widely adopted in autonomous agents, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly in reactive control policies that serve as a key component of navigation systems. These policies enable agents to respond instantaneously to dynamic environments without relying on pre‐existing maps.
Yingxiu Chang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Afterword [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Galanter expresses his appreciation to the wide-ranging collection of articles that flatteringly claim to be inspired or influenced by his work. He determines that apart from a few side trips to the UK and to Israel, all of his works have been clustered ...
Galanter, Marc
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Tactile tensions: uncertainty, mutuality, and therianthropic nightmares in Highland Odisha Tact et tensions : incertitude, mutualité et cauchemars thérianthropiques dans les hautes terres de l'Odisha

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 49-66, March 2026.
In the central highlands of Odisha, India, Kutia Kondh families navigate a precarious reality shaped by productive autonomy, decentralized authority, and material and relational uncertainty. Abundance and destitution are finely balanced in a world where humans, animals, ancestors, and spirits are co‐present and co‐dependent but also opaque and ...
Sam Wilby
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice on Menstrual Hygiene Management among School Adolescents

open access: yesJournal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2018
Background: Menstrual hygiene management remains a taboo in many communities in Nepal. Cultural beliefs about menstruation such as food taboos and untouchability have negative impact on dignity, health and education of adolescent girls. The objective of
Ram Naresh Yadav   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Slum Evictions through the Lens of Labour: Capture, Value Generation, and Belonging in the Indian City

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract Following the lead of labour movements, this article frames slums as labour geographies whose evictions constitute the devaluation of labour in spatial terms. This devaluation occurs in two modes: in the first, through the rendering of workers as “encroachers” or “the urban poor” in policy documents and public discourse, thereby unmooring ...
Priti Narayan
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting conceptions of social (in)justice in Nepal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to analyse and situate the changing discourses of social (in)justice in the context of political transition and restructuring process that Nepal has gone through since 2006.
Satyal, Poshendra
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Volumetric mediations: Atmospheres of crisis and unbelonging in humanitarian drone documentaries

open access: yesArea, Volume 58, Issue 1, March 2026.
Short Abstract This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more‐than‐military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwei's Human Flow (2017) and Morgan Knibbe's Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (2014), I examine how their drone cinematography visualises the ...
Beryl Pong
wiley   +1 more source

Specifics of Psychological Impact Strategies for Persons Committing Sexual Crimes Against Minors through the Internet

open access: yesПсихология и право, 2020
The article deals with the study of psychological impact strategies adapted by individuals in the course of sexual crimes against minors through the Internet. The research materials: 34 indictments drawn up in accordance with articles 132, 133, 134, 135,
Nikita Yu. Korchagin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Scientific Ritual: The Institutional Review Boards for Human Clinical Trials in Israel

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2026.
Abstract This ethnographic study analyzes Israeli Institutional Review Boards (IRBs’) main practices and discourses. I describe IRB operations as bureaucratic rituals derived from idealized scientific values, with physician‐scientist members serving as gatekeepers who perform boundary work to preserve professional independence.
Hedva Eyal
wiley   +1 more source

Some Dramatic Scenes and Their Significance in Mulk Raj Anand’s Novel Untouchable

open access: yesSanskriti
This paper discusses about the dramatic scenes and their significance found in Mulk Raj Anand’s first novel Untouchable. From the deep study in the novel, the early morning scene, the well-scene, the touching scene, the most pathetic scene, the pollution
Bina Adhikari
doaj   +1 more source

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