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Security analysis for intelligent urban freight transport

International Journal of Information Privacy, Security and Integrity, 2019
El Arbi Abdellaoui Alaoui, Mustapha El Moudden   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Isbaaro: Checkpoints and World Making beyond the State in Somalia

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the dynamics of checkpoint authority in Somalia, focusing on how kinship, mobility and checkpoint practices intersect to shape political and social orders. Challenging the notion that checkpoint governance is either an expression of state‐like power or indicative of the state's absence, the authors argue that Somali ...
Peer Schouten, Abdirahman Edle, Jethro Norman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Urban Transport Sustainability with Indicators: Trends, Gaps, and a Vision Forward

Nalbant A, Silgu MA, Şardağ A, Yıldız B.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Optimizing international trade: Strategies for retaining or taking over transport remit in Poland's import and export landscape-A case study of Company X. [PDF]

PLoS One
Bednarz J, Grottel M, Sperska A, Cirella GT, Suchanek M, Oniszczuk-Jastrząbek A, Czermanski E.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
wiley   +1 more source

A global comparative study of low-carbon domestic transportation transition. [PDF]

Carbon Balance Manag
Zhu L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Between famine and freedom: Food prices during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945–9

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how the Indonesian War of Independence (1945‒9) influenced staple food prices, and how fluctuations in those prices, in turn, shaped the trajectory and dynamics of the conflict. We compiled a dataset comprising more than 8600 prices for staple foods covering the entire Indonesian archipelago from 1939‒49, allowing us to
Ingrid de Zwarte, Helmi Moret, Pim de Zwart   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Costs of single-phase door-to-door insecticide-treated net mass distribution campaigns in Nigeria: a case study in Ondo and Anambra states. [PDF]

Malar J
Eigbiremolen G, Jimoh B, Obodoechi DN, Oluwagbemiga AO, Iwegbu A, Ogunmola S, Ndibe N, Folayan WA, Oresanya O, Maxwell K, Abeku TA.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson, Gill Newton, Linda Perriton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
Federica De Molli, Alfons van Marrewijk, Arne Carlsen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source