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OF FERAL AND OBEDIENT COWS: Colonization as Domestication in the Paraguayan Chaco

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 8-35, February 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT In the Paraguayan Chaco, cattle evoke images of power, prosperity, and celebration, but they also trigger one of the quickest deforestation processes in the world. The presence of cattle in the region has deep historical roots, dating back to the beginning of the colonization process, when the establishment of a double economy based on cattle ...
VALENTINA BONIFACIO
wiley   +1 more source

Defensa comunitaria y culturas del terror: Crimen organizado y violencia de Estado en comunidades originarias de Guerrero, México

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
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FoodWiki: Ontology-Driven Mobile Safe Food Consumption System. [PDF]

open access: yesScientificWorldJournal, 2015
An ontology‐driven safe food consumption mobile system is considered. Over 3,000 compounds are being added to processed food, with numerous effects on the food: to add color, stabilize, texturize, preserve, sweeten, thicken, add flavor, soften, emulsify, and so forth.
Çelik D.
europepmc   +2 more sources

An Improved Multi‐Task Pointwise Network for Segmentation of Building Roofs in Airborne Laser Scanning Point Clouds

open access: yesThe Photogrammetric Record, Volume 37, Issue 179, Page 260-284, September 2022., 2022
Zhang et al. propose an improved multi‐task pointwise network to simultaneously segment instances (that is, individual roof planes) and semantics (that is, groups of roof planes with similar geometric shapes) in point clouds. A new roof data‐set (called RoofNTNU) is established by taking standard airborne laser scanning (ALS) point clouds as training ...
Chaoquan Zhang, Hongchao Fan
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Clarifying and Defining the Concept of Liquid Democracy

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 61-80, March 2022., 2022
Abstract Liquid Democracy (LD) is a recent phenomenon that could radically affect our understanding of democracy. Yet, there remains significant semantic confusion surrounding this concept, and researchers in the social sciences, as well as in political theory, currently lack a general definition that is broadly accepted as a standard reference ...
Chiara Valsangiacomo
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Exploring human–nature interactions in national parks with social media photographs and computer vision

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 424-436, April 2021., 2021
Abstract Understanding the activities and preferences of visitors is crucial for managing protected areas and planning conservation strategies. Conservation culturomics promotes the use of user‐generated online content in conservation science. Geotagged social media content is a unique source of in situ information on human presence and activities in ...
Tuomas Väisänen   +3 more
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Characterising text mining: a systematic mapping review of the Portuguese language

open access: yesIET Software, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 49-75, April 2018., 2018
Documents written in natural language constitute a major part of the artefacts produced during the software engineering life cycle. Studies indicate that more than 80% of enterprise data is stored in some sort of unstructured form, mainly as text. Therefore, the growth of user‐generated content, especially from social media, provides a huge amount of ...
Ellen Souza   +8 more
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Descolonizando la historia oral: una conversación

open access: yes, 2021
History, Volume 106, Issue 370, Page E1-E17, March 2021.
wiley   +1 more source

The Ancient Maya Script of Hand Forms Embedded in Figural Art: A Decipherment of Numerals Signed by the Rulers of Altar Q1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 350-389, July 2025.
Abstract Ancient Maya texts are informationally dominated by hieroglyphic inscriptions and visually dominated by figural art with distinctly formed hands. The hands suggest iconographically embedded hand signs, which would constitute a unique modality of semantic expression and a discourse complement to hieroglyphic writing.
Rich A. Sandoval
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Regulating Tools for Hacking: Limitations, Challenges and Possibilities

open access: yesPolicy &Internet, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Tools developed for the purpose of unilaterally exploiting computer systems and their communications will pose a persistent policy and regulatory problem. Regulation of hacking tools to date, however, has been piecemeal, inconsistent and often incoherent.
Diarmaid Harkin, Vas Panagiotopoulos
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