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Caterpillar's Spatial Metamorphosis: Heavy Equipment Manufacturing in the 21st Century

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Caterpillar Inc., the world's largest heavy equipment manufacturer, grew rapidly in the 20th century before a crisis of overproduction in the early 1980s threatened its survival. In response, it launched the $2.8 billion “Plant with a Future” (PWAF) program, a sweeping material and ideological overhaul that remade the firm for the post‐Fordist
Utkarsh Kumar, Michael L. Dougherty
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Prepartum Supplementation and Yeast Fermentation Products on the Progesterone‐Modulated Transfer of Passive Immunity in Bos indicus Cows

Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Inadequate colostrum intake increases risks of calf morbidity and mortality. This study investigated the effects of prepartum and early postpartum supplementation and yeast fermentation products on late‐pregnant Bos indicus cows, and the role of progesterone in mediating passive immunity transfer.
Latino G. S. Coimbra, Fran C. Cowley, Geoffry Fordyce, Luis F. P. Silva   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analyses and Design of the Foundations of Concrete dams

Geotecnia, 1980
This general report presents the problem of forecasting the behaviour and assessing the safety of the concrete dam/foundation structural unit, particularly of the foundation. After a brief discussion of the concept of safety, it goes on to present the dimensioning criteria followed, these being analysed from the viewpoint of the limit states of ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Optimization of dam monitoring for long concrete buttress dams

, 2015
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Nordström, Erik, Malm, Richard, Blomdahl, Johan, Tornberg, Robert, Nilsson, Carl-Oscar   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

The Mediating Roles of Political Ideology, Dominion Belief, and Stewardship Belief in the Relationship Between Christianity and Environmentalism: Evaluating Lynn White's Thesis in the Netherlands

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous studies provide mixed empirical support for White's thesis that Christianity has contributed to the ecological crisis. This study aims to add nuance to White's thesis by examining different aspects of Christianity within the secularized context of the Netherlands.
Nienke P. M. Fortuin, Carl Sterkens
wiley   +1 more source

The roots of resistance: An institutional ethnography of faculty opposition to social justice curricula in undergraduate medical education

Medical Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Augmenting training on the social and structural determinants of health in medical education is essential for addressing health disparities and fulfilling medical schools' accreditation‐mandated social accountability obligations.
Allison Brown, Amanda Roze des Ordons, Adibba Adel, Jessica Young, Rahim Kachra, Regine U. King   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk, Overlap, and Two Forms of Aggregation

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we introduce a new class of cases to the debate on rescue dilemmas and whether to save the greater number. We argue that situations involving both risk and overlap shine a new light on some of the most important issues within this discussion.
Lukas Tank, Nils Wendler, Jan Peter Carstensen Mainka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What are the conditions under which business corporations expand their institutional power? This paper argues that institutional power is affected by the architecture of the “acquisition regime”—the set of formal (and informal) rules that govern how states purchase public services.
Reut Marciano, Shir Gal
wiley   +1 more source

Using Cultural Theory to Specify the Policy Actors, Belief Systems, and Sources of Coalition, Conflict, Stability, and Change in Policy Advocacy Coalitions and Environmental Resource Policies

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We use grid‐group cultural theory (CT) to specify underspecified aspects of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Our theoretical synthesis of CT and the ACF provides, first, an exhaustive typology of policy actors and their cultural cognitive biases that entail, guide, and constrain policy core beliefs about problem definitions and ...
Metodi Sotirov, Brendon Swedlow
wiley   +1 more source

Prediction Model for Deformation of Concrete Dam Based on Interpretable Component Decomposition and Integration. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Han F, Gu C.
europepmc   +1 more source