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Burning Lessons: The Failure to Learn From Major Fire Incidents

Fire and Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Major fire disasters continue to cause substantial loss of life, economic damage, and social disruption worldwide. Although investigations occur in most countries, lessons learned are often fragmented, published in incompatible formats, or not published at all.
Anja Hofmann‐Boellinghaus, Dirk Aschenbrenner   +1 more
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Ithaca International Airport: An Airport on Autopilot.

, 2022
Airport operations form the backbone of flight transportation across the USA. Safe, adequate, and convenient flights rely on the symbiotic relationship between multiple key actors. This paper seeks to understand the complex nature of one such airport within Ithaca NY, and how a transfer from county jurisdiction to becoming its own authority could help ...
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Weaving strength and care: Situated reflections on women's work and the epistemology of care in biological anthropology

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay examines how gendered expectations, structural precarity, and institutional hierarchies shape research practices, knowledge production, and career trajectories in biological anthropology. Taking the figure of the “strong woman” as an entry point, it questions celebratory narratives of resilience that frame endurance as an individual
Lumila Paula Menéndez
wiley   +1 more source

The evaluation of barrier-free airports for disabled passengers: The example of Erzincan Airport

Journal of Airline and Airport Management, 2020
Purpose: Erzincan Airport, which has the ’Barrier-Free Airport’ certificate, has been evaluated by disabled passengers using the airport area that is mentioned.
İlhami Yücel, Güler Polat
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Operating in perpetual motion? Coping with the dark side of global boundary spanning

Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This paper explores how individuals experience and cope with the demands of global boundary spanning in multinational enterprises (MNEs). We foreground temporary colocation as a modality through which mobile global boundary spanners repeatedly traverse multiple boundaries, triggering intense demands with adverse consequences ...
Kieran M. Conroy, Anthony McDonnell, Stefan Jooss   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

TRAFFIC DISTRIBUTION STUDY ON MULTI-AIRPORT SYSTEMS IN THE GREATER JAKARTA METROPOLITAN AREA (GJMA) AND ASSOCIATED IMPLICATIONS

Journal of the Civil Engineering Forum, 2014
Multi-airport system development is becoming a common solution to capacity constraint problems in metropolitan areas around the world. GJMA, as the biggest air transport market in Indonesia, have a plan to change their airport system from a single ...
Faiz Agung Perdana, Richard Moxon
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Expansion of Airport Capacity at London Heathrow Airport

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2004
Civil aviation has been confronted with the problem of matching its capacity to growing demand long term. This has been a particularly important issue at some large European and U.S. airports where increasing operational, economic, and, particularly, environmental constraints have affected expansion and development.
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Towards climate‐conscious corporate restructuring: A comparative exploration of English and Bhutanese legal frameworks

International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper conducts a comparative legal analysis of corporate restructuring frameworks in England and Bhutan, examining their capacity to integrate climate variability considerations and promote sustainable business practices. It discusses the procedural mechanisms for restructuring financially distressed enterprises available under the law of
Eugenio Vaccari, Migmar Lham
wiley   +1 more source

Factors influencing passengers’ choice of transport mode to Warsaw Chopin Airport

Logistics & Sustainable Transport, 2016
Airport accessibility is an important factor for airport choice and therefore also for airport competition. When air passengers choose an itinerary, they reflect on the transport chain from door to door.
Górecka Aleksandra
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Institutional Diversity in Banking and Economic Complexity

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we test whether institutional diversity in banking systems is beneficial to economic complexity, using data for Italian provinces in the period 1998–2017. We compute different indexes that consider diversity from an ownership, institutional, business model and competition point of view and find that higher diversity has a ...
Beniamino Pisicoli
wiley   +1 more source