A Single-armed Manta-board as a New Diver-controlled Planing Board and Its Use for Underwater Surveys [PDF]
, 1994 Due to inadequacies of previous underwater towing techniques and the special needs of a recent underwater survey, a modified mania-board technique was developed.
Burton, Thomas E., Zimmerman, Kenneth D.
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Did Iraq Cheat the United Nations? Underpricing, Bribes, and the Oil for Food Program [PDF]
From 1997 through early 2003, the United Nations Oil for Food Program allowed Iraq to export oil in exchange for humanitarian supplies. We measure the extent to which this program was corrupted by Iraq's attempts to deliberately set the price of its oil ...
Chang-Tai Hsieh, Enrico Moretti
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HR performance within Saudi Arabian organisations : is the relationship between 'job security and ill-treatment' and job satisfaction moderated by organisational support : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Business Studies in Management at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2015 HR performance, particularly employees’ performance, has been well researched in Western countries. However, many Asian countries, including the region of the Arabic Gulf, are still under-researched in relation to this subject.
Al Muhanna, Abdullah Ali Z
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Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that football represents an underutilised opportunity for the Labour Party to anchor a wider programme of civic renewal. In many working‐class communities, the decline of trade unions, working men's clubs and other associational spaces has eroded collective life, leaving football clubs as rare institutions where dignity ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Reintroducing carrying capacity to Arabian hyper-arid rangelands; the role of language to defend an inexact science [PDF]
, 2018 Open-access deserts of the Arabian Gulf States continue to be heavily impacted by camels, a species that has high cultural but little economic value. In protected areas that exclude camels, the problem is frequently replaced by other ungulates, such as ...
Kafhaga, Tamer
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Financial Markets in the GCC Prospects for European Cooperation [PDF]
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Eberhard Brodhage, Rodney Wilson
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Frontiers in Environmental HealthIntroductionPilonidal sinus (PNS) is a small hole or “tunnel” in the skin that frequently occurs in the sacrococcygeal region. Nevertheless, PNS has been reported to occur between the fingers (interdigital) in barbers, hairdressers, and animal groomers ...
Hamdi Al Shenawi +13 more
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