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Monitoring Underwater Aircraft Sites in Lake Washington
A Martin PBM-5 Mariner rests in 24 m (79 ft) at the south end of Lake Washington in Seattle, WA. This WWII-era aircraft presents as typical for the...
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Monitoring
This chapter focuses on the personal recollections of Julius Pereszlenyi (Martin Esslin), who began to work for the BBC in the Monitoring Service in...
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Locating the Boundaries of the Nuclear North: Arctic Biology, Contaminated Caribou, and the Problem of the Threshold
This essay is a historical–geographical account of how scientists and public health officials conceptualized and assessed northern radioactive...
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Intelligence and Covert Operations
This chapter examines British intelligence assistance to Oman during the Dhofar War, with reference not only to the counter-insurgency campaign but...
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High Hopes
This chapter covers the 1998–2001 period. Ghassem Asrar became associate administrator and changed the name of his division from “Mission to Planet...
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Locating the Boundaries of the Nuclear North: Arctic Biology, Contaminated Caribou, and the Problem of the Threshold
This essay is a historical–geographical account of how scientists and public health officials conceptualized and assessed northern radioactive...
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Offset Life: Lemur Health in Landscapes of Extraction
In 2004, the mining industry introduced its Business and Biodiversity Offsetting Programme as a means of neutralising the harmful impacts of mining...
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The Institutional Architecture: Reorganising Government for Better Socio-economic Development
This chapter examines the extent to which South Africa can be viewed as achieving its developmental goals based on its institutional architecture and...
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Trend mining with Orange – using topic modeling in futures research with the example of urban mobility
Today, assumptions about probable future developments (at least as far as they make use of quantifiable scientific methods and are not pure...
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Light Pollution: Auroral Displays, Environmental Carcinogens, and Epidemiological Imaginings of Inuit Cancer
This chapter investigates the medical theories of Dr Otto Schaefer, a German-Canadian physician and key promulgator of the view that the aurora...
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Eyewitness Memory
Eyewitness testimony plays a crucial role in criminal and legal proceedings, but a well-established body of research demonstrates that it is...
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Top-down Extraction of Bottom-up Messages: Surveillance
This chapter reviews Soviet surveillance with its disciplining, managerial, and protective functions. When the open channels of communication between...
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Advancing
This chapter covers the first two years of the Biden Administration (2021–2022). Biden unshackled NASA and increased its Earth Sciences budget beyond...
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Women, Migration, and Development in Africa
Recent studies on migration in Africa show an increasing trend in women’s migration, often referred to as the feminization of migration. This growing...
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From Estonia to Sakhalin Island: The Expansion of the USSR Ministry of Agriculture’s Toxic Archipelago in the 1970s and 1980s
This chapter reveals that in the early 1970s the Soviet Union greatly increased the resources available to its agricultural biowarfare programme and...
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Patterning Tuberculosis: Interwar Tuberculosis Research as a Bridge Between Infectious and Risk Factor Epidemiology
The chapter argues that interwar efforts to make sense of and control tuberculosis gave rise to practices and concepts that would prove crucial for...