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Experimental Study on the Corrosion of Carbon Steel and Aluminum Alloy in Firefighting Protein Foam Concentrates [PDF]

open access: gold, 2021
Marina Teodora Patrascu   +6 more
openalex   +1 more source

Professional Engagement With Climate Change Among Five Communities of Practice in Virginia, USA: An Exploratory Study

open access: yesClimate Resilience and Sustainability, Volume 5, Issue 1, June 2026.
Municipalities across the United States and the world face profound climate adaptation and mitigation challenges. To assess current engagement and future potential of various professional communities to communicate about and contribute to such efforts, we conducted 56 in‐depth interviews in Virginia with members of five communities of practice (elected
Teresa Myers   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How (In)Visibility Shapes Women's Experience of Inequity in Prison Work: A Cooperative Inquiry With Women Working in Australian Men's Prisons

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 429-439, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Research shows that women working in men's prisons face both scrutiny and exclusion within a high‐risk, masculinized occupational culture. Addressing a gap in theorizing the processes involved, this article explores the interplay of gender, visibility, and power through a poststructuralist‐informed thematic analysis of data from 16 women ...
Claudia Walker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cities and Drones: What Cities Need to Know about Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
NLC's municipal guide, Cities and Drones, is designed to serve as a primer on drones for local officials, providing insight into the recently released federal rules relating to drone operation, as well as offering suggestions for how local governments ...
Elias Stahl   +2 more
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“It's Not in Sport Media's Interest to Challenge the Norms That It Benefits From”: Gendered Organizational Logics and Their Impact on Women in Sport Media

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 532-544, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Sport is a gendered environment that legitimizes and celebrates the prioritization of men. Sport media mirrors these inequities, evident through the sustained underrepresentation of women in this space. We sought to identify the gendered organizational logics of sport media organizations and their resulting impact on women's experiences.
Swarali Patil   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Challenges of Firefighters’ Interventions in Old Urban Centres: A Case Study

open access: yesUrban Science
In many European cities, old urban centres, particularly historical centres, reveal significant limitations to the intervention of civil protection agents—namely, firefighters—in terms of their mobility and action in emergencies, thus conditioning their ...
Pedro Barreirinha   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Four Dimensions of Presidential Leadership: Rethinking Nelson Mandela's Presidency

open access: yesPresidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article applies a four‐dimensional analytical framework to re‐evaluate Nelson Mandela's presidency (1994–1999). The framework distinguishes tensions and synergies across four key domains of leadership: executive and symbolic, party and state, international and domestic, and formal versus informal.
Anthony Butler
wiley   +1 more source

Simulating the Aerial Ballet: The Dance of Fire-Fighting Planes and Helicopters

open access: yesEngineering Proceedings
This study introduces a simulation model to analyze the efficacy of different aerial firefighting strategies in Finland, focusing on the comparative water production capacity and associated costs of firefighting aircraft versus helicopters of varying ...
Juha Alander   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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