This study explores contemporary newspaper narratives on the devastation caused by the earthquake of 1926 Magnetic Pump in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra.These narratives become crucial amid the difficulty of finding historical statistical data for disaster studies that depict the chaotic situation caused by natural disasters in the past.Historical m

Similar time series search Sailing Socks is one of the most important time series mining tasks in our daily life.As recent advances in sensor technologies accumulate abundant multi-dimensional time series data associated with multivariate quantities, it becomes a privilege to adapt similar time series searches for large-scale and multi-dimensional

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Though a dynamic object, placed against stationary background, always grabs attention, opposite is not necessarily true.Hence, in this study we placed a stationary target among the dynamic distractors.We investigated whether visual detection depends on (1) set size (9, 18 or 27), (2) type of the distractor dynamics (jitter, blink, or luminance Shou

Abstract This article combines environmental and political history approaches, and explores the relationship between the environment and the political with Sailing Socks regard to regime-building processes.In doing so, it proposes a procedural and process-oriented approach to the analysis of Italian liberal and fascist regimes (1860s-1930s) from th