LIn China, the abundance of historical documentary records in the form of Fang Zhi (semiofficial local gazettes) offers an extraordinary opportunity for providing a high-resolution historical dataset for the frequency of typhoon strikes. We have…
Papers in Regional and Cultural Studies
Regional and Cultural Studies papers in Humanities, A
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The situation of children abandoned by adults, in homes, sleeping rough, and in other circumstances, attracts much political and journalistic attention, but little from scientists. This text aims to explain this situation.
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I consider two cases of legal abandonment in Vancouverof murdered sex workers and live-in caregivers on temporary work visasin light of Agambens claim that the generalized suspension of the law has become a dominant paradigm of government. I bring…
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This book first appeared in 1925. The basic principles of relativity have not changed since then, but both the theory and its applications have been much extended, and some revision has been necessary for the second and subsequent editions. For the…
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This paper presents a new algorithm based on the Mumford-Shah model for simultaneously detecting the edge features of two images and jointly estimating a consistent set of transformations to match them. Compared to the current asymmetric methods in…
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Contents: Chapter:1Title:New republic, new women? : feminism and modernity at the belle epoqueAuthor:Diana HolmesAuthor:Carrie TarrPage:11; Contents: Chapter:2Title:1890-1914 : a 'belle epoque' for feminism?Author:Maire CrossPage:23; Contents:…
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This is a fascinating look at a pivotal time in the formation of the culture of modern China. The "Bitter Revolution" of the title is not the Communist Revolution of 1949 or the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, but the revolution of ideas that…
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This article develops a feminist defense of abortion which criticizes and departs from traditional feminist appeals to bodily autonomy that are based on proprietorial models of the body. The author's argument in defense of a woman's right to…
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Digital Design and Computer Architecture is designed for courses that combine digital logic design with computer organization/architecture or that teach these subjects as a two-course sequence. Digital Design and Computer Architecture begins with a…
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Successful DNA replication and packaging of newly synthesized DNA into chromatin are essential to maintain genome integrity. Defects in the DNA template challenge genetic and epigenetic inheritance. Unfortunately, tracking DNA damage responses…
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The concept of time is discussed in the context of the canonical formulation of the gravitational field. Using a hypersurface orthogonal foliation, the arbitrariness of the lapse function is eliminated and the shift vector vanishes, allowing a…
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Provided certain obstacles are overcome, we believe Cloud Computing has the potential to transform a large part of the IT industry, making software even more attractive as a service and shaping the way IT hardware is designed and purchased.…
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What are some of the key historical trends in hours of work per worker in US? What economic, social-psychological, organizational and institutional forces determine the length of individuals' working hours? How much of the trend toward longer…
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The article offers an overview of the history of the electric power sector of Mexico, a country in Latin America that has retained a monopolistic player in the electricity market. It states that Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) federally owned…
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Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so.Its spread has depended upon…
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