THE SHIFTING CONTOURS OF THE OUTLAW IN URBAN HAITI

The Shifting Contours of the Outlaw in Urban Haiti

In what follows, I discuss some initial empirical findings and theoretical insights from my recent work on transnational resettlement of crime-based deportees from the US to Haiti.Haitian baz, or street organizations, are increasingly taking on the trappings of the urban gang to maintain relevance and control of their zones.Simultaneously, Decor ga

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ChemLit-QA: a human evaluated dataset for chemistry RAG tasks

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a widely used strategy in Large-Language Models (LLMs) to extrapolate beyond the inherent pre-trained knowledge.Hence, RAG is crucial when working in data-sparse fields such as Chemistry.The evaluation of RAG systems is commonly conducted using specialized datasets.However, existing datasets, typically in the

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Echocardiographic diagnosis of aorto-left ventricular tunnel with supravalvular pulmonic stenosis in a Shih-tzu dog

Background: The aorto-left ventricular tunnel (ALVT) is a congenital extracardiac channel that connects the ascending aorta to the left ventricle.Case Description: A 2-year-old Shih-tzu dog presented with mild exercise intolerance.Echocardiography revealed an abnormal slit-like Decals tunnel structure connecting the ascending aorta to the left vent

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