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The Secondary Lifting Performance of Crawler Crane Under Delay Coefficient Control Strategy
MachinesCrawler cranes are mobile lifting equipment used in the process of hoisting goods. After the initial lifting, the crane may need a secondary lift due to adjustments in the position or height of the load.
Jin Zhang +5 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello +2 more
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
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Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we develop novel measures of managerial labor market classification and competition by constructing networks of compensation benchmarking peers disclosed in proxy statements. These networks represent firms’ relative positions within the managerial labor market.
RAY RUI GAO, YIFEI LU
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Insect Science, EarlyView.The release of gravid Exochomus quadripustulatus females proved to be effective in containing Toumeyella parvicornis infestations on stone pine trees, under open‐field condition. The ladybugs caused a lower infestation level compared to the trees that did not receive any ladybugs during the observation season.
Nicolò Di Sora +4 more
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Farmers' pro‐social motivations and willingness‐to‐accept in markets with public goods
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract To explain how some farmers' decisions may diverge from profit‐maximization, we incorporate proactive social preferences for public goods in an expected utility framework, in addition to reactive risk preferences to uncertainty. We offer empirical evidence that proactive preferences influence farmers' decisions alongside reactive preferences ...
Jill Fitzsimmons +2 more
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Toward a feminist geo‐legal reading: US country‐of‐origin information in asylum adjudication
Area, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we offer what we call ‘a feminist geo‐legal reading’ of documents used in spaces and practices of law. Legal cases and decisions are often based on different legal and non‐legal documents, including laws, explanatory memorandums, testimonies, medical reports, and so forth. In contemporary asylum adjudication, country‐of‐origin
Malene H. Jacobsen +2 more
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‘Clinging Together Against the Dark’: A Pragmatist Reading of Sustainability Conversations
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a typology of managers' interpretations of sustainability as ‘narrative fields’ derived from a qualitative multi‐site study and offer a Pragmatist reading of the results. Pragmatism is grounded in an ethic of meliorism, the belief in the possibility of gradually improving the world through human effort and ...
Barry A. Colbert, Elizabeth C. Kurucz
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