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“The Battle-Fortune of Marshal Hindenburg is not Bound up with the Possession of a Hill”: The Germans and Vimy Ridge, April 1917 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
On 9 April 1917 four Canadian divisions and one British division of 170,000 men broke through the “Vimy Group” of German Sixth Army of some 40,000 men. By late afternoon, the Germans had been driven off the Ridge. That day, as Brigadier-General Alexander
Herwig, Holger
core   +1 more source

Turf Protection or Policy Expansion? How European Agencies Shape Their Reputation Through Social Media Communication

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We approach public communication of bureaucratic organizations as a means of reputation management and argue that social media communication that abstains from making reference to other agencies is in line with a turf‐protective strategy, whereas communication that seeks to establish a link to other agencies is in line with a strategy to ...
Karina Shyrokykh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

LAS ARRAS PERFECCIONADAS A TRAVÉS DE UN CHEQUE MAKING EARNEST PAYMENTS WITH A CHECK

open access: yesRevista Chilena de Derecho, 2008
Se critica el presente fallo, pues resulta perfectamente posible constituir arras a través de un cheque. Dicho documento no es dado en garantía, sino para constituir una garantía; lo cual es muy distinto.
Patricio-Ignacio Carvajal
doaj  

Oscillation modes of relativistic slender tori

open access: yes, 2006
Accretion flows with pressure gradients permit the existence of standing waves which may be responsible for observed quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO's) in X-ray binaries.
Balbus   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Nonlinear r-Modes in Neutron Stars: Instability of an unstable mode [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
We study the dynamical evolution of a large amplitude r-mode by numerical simulations. R-modes in neutron stars are unstable growing modes, driven by gravitational radiation reaction.
B.J. Owen   +30 more
core   +2 more sources

Standards as Authority: Self‐Legitimation in the European Union's Global Forest Governance

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how the EU's introduction of binding sustainability standards through the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) constitutes an authoritative claim and how this claim is legitimized. Using qualitative content analysis, the paper examines three interconnected self‐legitimation strategies: (1) framing standards as optimal ...
Julia Drubel
wiley   +1 more source

The Legitimacy of Prohibiting Euthanasia

open access: yesBioéthiqueOnline, 2015
ohn Arras argues against the legalization of physician- assisted suicide and active euthanasia on the basis of social costs that he anticipates will result from legalization.
Gildenhuys, Peter
doaj  

On the System of Coupled Nondegenerate Kirchhoff Equations with Distributed Delay: Global Existence and Exponential Decay

open access: yesJournal of Function Spaces, 2021
This paper studies the system of coupled nondegenerate viscoelastic Kirchhoff equations with a distributed delay. By using the energy method and Faedo-Galerkin method, we prove the global existence of solutions.
Abdelbaki Choucha   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Supervising Your In‐Group? How Social Identification Shapes Financial Sector Regulatory Leniency

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Both practitioners and governance scholars recognize the importance of external oversight, especially in regulated industries like the financial sector. However, the failure of financial sector regulators and enforcement officials (supervisors) to act is often cited as a primary cause of ineffective governance.
Dennis Veltrop   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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