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Contextual conditions define maximum energy-use threshold in low-carbon controlled environment agriculture for agri-food transformation. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Ng S, Hinrichsen O, Viswanathan S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Does Proactivity Affect Insurance Solidarity and Individual Responsibility?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, the insurance industry has been experimenting with technological innovations that deeply affect its business model and social function. This article explores the use of digital technologies to monitor policyholders' behaviour and personalise their insurance coverage.
Alberto Cevolini, Elena Esposito
wiley   +1 more source

Rural first-mile pickup and last-mile delivery: A bus-assisted heterogeneous-drone model. [PDF]

PLoS One
Jin S, Wang L, Gong Y, Hu J.
europepmc   +1 more source

What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira, Isabela Corby, Juliana Góes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling and algorithms of highway transportation network in urban agglomerations. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Wang S, Wang Z.
europepmc   +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

Optimizing sustainable hub depot locations for empty container logistics in Slovenia using particle swarm optimization. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Tuljak-Suban D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Market Integration and Nonlinear Price Transmission in 19th‐Century British Wheat Markets

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Important developments in infrastructure and institutions characterized 19th‐Century wheat markets in Great Britain. Among these developments was the construction of the national rail system which enabled cheaper and more efficient transport of grain and other bulky cargoes between inland towns and ports.
Barry K. Goodwin, A. Ford Ramsey
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamics of carbon balance and its influencing factors in the Yangtze River Delta: a spatial network perspective. [PDF]

Carbon Balance Manag
Yi'na H, Menglu C, Qian L, Yijing W, Niuniu L, Dongyu W.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Auction-based Allocation for Urban Freight Transport

This research aims to use an auction mechanism to allocate freight requests to couriers, where each courier is bidding for interested requests to deliver them. A marketplace manages theallocation by receiving customers requests and sending them to the couriers who respond with their bids for interested requests.
Ali, Mohamed, Lucas, Flavien, Lozenguez, Guillaume, Doniec, Arnaud   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source