Toward a Smarter Future: Building Back Better with Intelligent Civil Infrastructure -- Smart Sensors and Self-Monitoring Civil Works
The United States needs to build better infrastructure.
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Toward a Smarter Future: Building Back Better with Intelligent Civil Infrastructure
The United States needs to build better infrastructure.
Violent conflict exacerbated drought-related food insecurity between 2009 and 2019 in sub-Saharan Africa
Conflict, drought and locusts are leading concerns for African food security but the relative importance and spatiotemporal scale of crises resulting from each hazard is poorly characterized.
Surveilling Surveillance: Estimating the Prevalence of Surveillance Cameras with Street View Data
The use of video surveillance in public spaces--both by government agencies and by private citizens--has attracted considerable attention in recent years, particularly in light of rapid advances in fa
Economic Perspectives on Infrastructure Investment
To determine the appropriate level of infrastructure spending, there is no alternative to aggregating the results of project-by-project cost-benefit analysis.
Water, Health and Wealth: The Impact of Piped Water Outages on Disease Prevalence and Financial Transactions in Zambia
Providing clean water requires maintenance, as well as the initial connections that are typically measured.
Men and Women Candidates Are Similarly Persistent After Losing Elections
Are women more likely to quit politics after losing their first race than men?
Financing Kindness as a Society: The Rise and Fall of the Waqf as a Central Islamic Philanthropic Institution (Awqaf)
A sine qua non in any basic understanding of the history of Islamic philanthropy is a familiarity with the story of the charitable foundation/endowment in Islam known as the waqf.
Strategic Partisans: Electoral Motivations and Partisanship in Local Government Communication
Politicians use their communication to present a strategic version of themselves to voters.
Bowling Alone: Thinking About Social Change in America
In the 1960s, community groups across America had seemed to stand on the threshold of a new era of expanded involvement.
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