Advertisement, omnipresent in the media and daily life, is constitutive of a widespread cultural practice, circulating commodities as well as knowledge. While research studies have long challenged the ways in which advertising and marketing campaigns in western countries employ gendered imagery that objectify women and reinforce power differences between the sexes in order to sell their product...

The paper considers the usefulness of the concept of civil society—both as an analytical construct and a policy tool—in non-Western contexts drawing on a selected review of literature on Africa from anthropology and development studies. Rejecting arguments that the concept has little meaning outside its Western origins, and critical of the sometimes crude export of the concept by Western donors...

The Itsy pocket computer is a flexible research platform developed at Compaq Computer Corporation’s Western Research Laboratory (WRL). The goal of this project is to enable hardware and software research in handheld computing. Several versions of the Itsy system were designed and built. This document evaluates the power consumption of Itsy version 2.3.

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The Commission has before it a petition for rulemaking filed by Western Pacific Broadcast, LLC (‘‘Western Pacific’’), the permittee of unbuilt station WMDE(TV), Channel 5, Seaford, Delaware, requesting an amendment of the DTV Table of Allotments to delete Channel 5 at Seaford and substitute Channel 5 at Dover, Delaware. Western Pacific further requests modification of WMDE(TV)’s construction pe...

For close to 70 years, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has provided seasonal water supply outlooks for use by Western US water managers. These outlooks are a critical component in effective water management and are utilized by a broad spectrum of users for a variety of purposes, ranging from irrigated agriculture, flood control, municipal water supply, endangered species prote...

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Recent studies have shown that power systems protection mechanisms have played a major role in propagating disturbances. Out of the last five major Western Systems Coordinating Council (WSCC) events (the North Ridge earthquake, December 14 1994, July 2 & 3 1996, and August 1