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Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha, Khalid El Harrouni, Samir Kabouss   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of the content of arguments on the boomerang effect of negative political advertisements [PDF]

Psihološka Istraživanja, 2018
The so-called 'boomerang effect' of negative political advertising is an unwanted backlash effect of a negative statement about the opponent that reflects more unfavourably on the sponsor than the intended target of such a negative ad.
Hrkalović Dijana, Petrović Ivana B.
doaj  

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Balanced Reporting and Boomerang Effect: An Analysis of Croatian Online News Sites Vaccination Coverage and User Comments during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Vaccines, 2022
The purpose of this paper was to explore online media coverage of COVID-19 vaccination and user reactions to the different types of coverage. The authors aimed to investigate possible boomerang effects that arise when COVID-19 media coverage is assertive
Željko Pavić, Adrijana Šuljok, Juraj Jurlina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Active Yet Cautious: How Middle States Navigate Status in the Universal Periodic Review

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how states positioned in the middle of the international status hierarchy behave in the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR). While the UPR was established as a cooperative mechanism to move away from confrontational naming and shaming, in practice it has become a reputational arena where states strategically ...
Chun‐Young Park
wiley   +1 more source

X-Ray Tomography and Infrared Spectrometry for the Analysis Of Throwing Sticks and Boomerangs

EXARC Journal, 2019
Throwing sticks, including boomerangs as a subclass, are prehistoric objects as old as humanity. They have endured on many continents in different forms, uses, and traditions of manufacture.
Luc Bordes
doaj  

Turnover experiences in public accounting and alumni's decisions to “give back”

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines turnover experiences in public accounting, including the exit phase (from public accountants' initial thoughts of leaving to their exit) and the post‐exit phase (from their exit to the present moment) of the turnover process.
Lindsay M. Andiola, Derek W. Dalton, Nancy L. Harp   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functions & Dysfunctions of Semantic Boomerang of Metaphors: A Case Study on Disciplinary Concept of Cultural Engineering [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2013
Numerous researchers and theoreticians have attempted to study and investigate various respects of the organization. Based on these studies, different ideas and images have been offered on this concept, the most important of which are the pictures ...
Abdollah Bichranlo, Ali Asghar Pourezzat
doaj   +1 more source

Cosmological Parameters from the 2003 flight of BOOMERANG

, 2005
We present the cosmological parameters from the CMB intensity and polarization power spectra of the 2003 Antarctic flight of the BOOMERANG telescope.
Ade, P. A. R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., Cabella, P., Contaldi, C. R., Crill, B. P., de Bernardis, P., De Gasperis, G., de Oliveira-Costa, A., De Troia, G., Di Stefano, G., Hivon, E., Jaffe, A. H., Jones, W. C., Kisner, T. S., Lange, A. E., Lewis, A. M., MacTavish, C. J., Masi, S., Mauskopf, P. D., Melchiorri, A., Montroy, T. E., Natoli, P., Netterfield, C. B., Pascale, E., Piacentini, F., Pogosyan, D., Polenta, G., Prunet, S., Ricciardi, S., Romeo, G., Ruhl, J. E., Santini, P., Tegmark, M., Veneziani, M., Vittorio, N.   +37 more
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The Coldest Place in the Universe: Probing the Ultra-Cold Outflow and Dusty Disk in the Boomerang Nebula [PDF]

, 2017
Our Cycle 0 ALMA observations confirmed that the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe, with a massive high-speed outflow that has cooled significantly below the cosmic background temperature.
Nyman, L-A., Sahai, R., Vlemmings, W. H. T.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources