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Understanding and Addressing the Disruptive Impacts of Contemporary Climate Crises
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Contemporary climate crises, such as wildfires, droughts, floods, and tropical storms, are increasing in frequency, intensity, scale, and duration. Organization and management scholars have been calling for more systematic study of the impacts of this increasing complexity on extant crisis governance arrangements and capacities for ...
Jaco Fourie +6 more
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Provision of firefighting shafts
, 2022 In buildings where a firefighting shaft is required, a minimum of two firefighting shafts should be provided in either of the following situations. a. A building that has both of the following. i. A storey with a floor area of 900m2 or more. ii.
Department for Communities and Local Government,
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From Organizational Resilience Capability to Firm Performance: A Time‐Lagged Investigation
Journal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An organizational resilience capability is essential for firms to adapt in an ever‐changing world characterized by diverse crises and adversities. However, the mechanisms and contingencies needed to harness and channel organizational resilience capability remain uncertain.
Yi‐Ying Chang +5 more
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From Civic Tech to DOGE: The Role of Tech Movements in the American Administrative State
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The second Trump administration saw the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a group of outsider technologists given extraordinary power to pursue a massive downsizing of the federal government. They also displaced an alternative approach: the civic tech movement.
Donald Moynihan
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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
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Leveraging an Unhappiness Lens for Smarter Policies
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Traditional policy research has largely focused on enhancing happiness or well‐being, privileging positive outcomes as the primary metric of success. We argue that a systematic focus on the drivers of unhappiness—rather than solely on happiness—offers a complementary analytical framework that can uncover hidden societal deficits and broaden ...
Marine Coupaud +2 more
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Sexual & Reproductive HealthcareBackground: Female firefighters face unique occupational exposures that may elevate reproductive health risks. Physical exertion during firefighting has been linked to increased stress hormones and elevated blood pressure, while prior studies associate ...
Dorala Berinyuy Asesi +5 more
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Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract Dynamic cerebral autoregulation (dCA) stabilises cerebral blood flow (CBF) against rapid fluctuations in perfusion pressure and may serve as a key physiological mediator of cognitive function. Inhibitory executive function, a core domain essential for goal‐directed behaviour, is influenced by modifiable lifestyle factors such as physical ...
Hayato Tsukamoto, Damian M. Bailey
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Helicopters in Civil Protection (Wildfires)—Fleet Reserve
VehiclesThe use of helicopters demands very accurate management and the correct use of assets. This is crucial in achieving good performance and avoiding tasks that could be inconducive to extinguishing the fire or even cause serious accidents.
Jorge Raposo +7 more
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On structural parameterizations of firefighting
, 2019 The FIREFIGHTING problem is defined as follows. At time t=0, a fire breaks out at a vertex of a graph. At each time step t≥1, a firefighter permanently defends (protects) an unburned vertex, and the fire then spreads to all undefended neighbors from the ...
I. Vinod Reddy +13 more
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