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What controls forest litter decomposition? A coordinated distributed teabag experiment across ten mountains

Ecography, EarlyView.
Litter decomposition in mountainous forest ecosystems is an essential process that affects carbon and nutrient cycling. However, the contribution of litter decomposition to terrestrial ecosystems is difficult to estimate accurately because of the limited comparability of different studies and limited data on local microclimatic and non‐climatic factors.
Shiyu Ma, Shengbin Chen, Yi Ding, Zhongsheng He, Gang Hu, Jie Liu, Ya‐huang Luo, Kun Song, Yongchuan Yang, Xiaolei Huang, Meixiang Gao, Lan Liu, Bo Chen, Xianjin He, Xiaorong Lu, Bingwei Lv, Liang‐Liang Ma, Yani Meng, Zhongping Tian, Hong‐wei Zhang, Xijin Zhang, Yansong Zhang, Zhaochen Zhang, Shaopeng Li, Jian Zhang   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organisational dehumanisation: Authority as remedy

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract According to orthodoxy, the human relations movement was a watershed in rehumanising scientifically managed workplaces. In the wake of such purported reform, pundits (theorists and practitioners alike) have typically taken for granted that 21st century approaches to workplace superintendence, birthed in the wake of the Hawthorne Studies and ...
Jean‐Etienne Joullié, Anthony M. Gould, Jeffrey Muldoon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transformations of the Commodity Space, Behavioral Heterogeneity and the Aggregation Problem

, 1991
The aggregation problem in demand analysis and exchange equilibrium is studied by putting restrictions on the shape of the distribution of the agents’ characteristics.
Grandmont, Jean-Michel
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Leadership and Accountability in Faith‐Based Institutions: Evidence From UK Mosques

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates accountability in religious institutions on the basis of evidence obtained from interviews with relevant parties in UK mosques. We mobilize prior theoretical contention regarding servant leadership and constraints on personal accountability to expose perceptions of seriously deficient discharge outcomes.
Umair Riaz, Anwar Halari, Bruce Burton, Theresa Dunne   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Axiomatic Design of a car bonnet: a new decoupling method based on Fuzzy Logic application

, 2014
In Axiomatic Design Approach, the first axiom, states that independence of functional requirements should be maintained throughout the design process. Para-complete logics, such as Fuzzy logic, represents a powerful instrument to express “mathematical ...
NADDEO, ALESSANDRO
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Out‐of‐Class Exposure Through Audiovisual Materials, Enjoyment, and Language Proficiency: A Mixed‐Methods Longitudinal Study of Junior Secondary FL Learners

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The current study set out to contribute to the burgeoning research area of out‐of‐class L2/FL learning by examining, specifically, English learners’ extramural engagement with watching movies/videos and/or listening to songs (i.e., exposure to audiovisuals).
Art Tsang, Susanna Siu‐sze Yeung
wiley   +1 more source

Repeated Choices under Dynamic Externalities [PDF]

We consider an economy in which a heterogeneous population of agents have to choose among a common set of alternatives. The utilities associated to the different alternatives posses a common component and an individual component, which reflect ...
Angelo Secchi, Giulio Bottazzi
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Shedding light on the environmental efficiency of the public light service: minimising light pollution through the global Malmquist–Luenberger index

International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The search for evidence in public management and the implementation of good management by public bodies is becoming increasingly important, and the principles of effectiveness and efficiency should be reinforced. Therefore, this paper aims to analyse the change in efficiency in the provision of public lighting services by local governments ...
Pablo Povedano‐Fernández, Gemma Pérez‐López, José Luis Zafra‐Gómez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing inconsistencies in the FITradeoff method: a comparison of two preference modeling paradigms

International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Many decision‐making processes are susceptible to errors and inconsistencies introduced by decision‐makers (DMs). The development of decision support systems (DSS) has brought about a way to guide DMs through complex decision scenarios. However, due to the complexity of the process, inconsistencies may still arise.
Evanielle Barbosa Ferreira, Lucia Reis Peixoto Roselli, Adiel Teixeira de Almeida   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transformations of the Commodity Space, Behavioral Heterogeneity and the Aggregation Problem [PDF]

The aggregation problem in demand analysis and exchange equilibrium is studied by putting restrictions on the shape of the distribution of the agents' characteristics.
Jean-Michel Grandmont
core