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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern engineering faces a ‘complexity crisis’ characterized by interlinked, multidisciplinary ‘wicked problems’, particularly within the defence and aerospace sectors. Although systems thinking is recognized as a critical competency for navigating this environment, empirical quantitative frameworks for its measurement remain limited.
Shimon Fridkin, Sigal Kordova
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes an advance in systems education supporting the teaching and learning of embodied systems thinking practice through an innovative master's‐level programme developed by the authors as part of the Birmingham Leadership Institute academic team at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Rachel Lilley, Juanita Bernal‐Alvarado
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Contemporary and Future Challenges for Structured Democratic Dialogue
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Structured Democratic Dialogue (SDD) is a participatory problem structuring methodology grounded in Structured Dialogic Design Science. It was created to help diverse stakeholders co‐construct influence maps that reveal leverage points and support coordinated action.
Yiannis Laouris, Gerald Midgley
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From Map Follower to Navigator: Archetypes of Environmental Impact Assessment
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental impact assessment (EIA) scholarship is commonly framed as a tension between efficiency and comprehensiveness paradigms. These paradigms describe a persistent tension but cannot explain how EIA operates through it. Drawing on social systems theory, this analysis traces that operation.
Kenneth Kang
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Adjusting Our Thinking About Feeding Animals: Fiber as the Metric for Mimicking Natural Diets
Zoo Biology, EarlyView.A typical effect of the change of an animal group to a diet higher in fiber: juveniles keep growing, animals of ideal body weight maintain their weight, and obese individuals lose weight. ABSTRACT Free‐ranging animals often ingest markedly different diets than their counterparts under human care, whether companion animals, production animals, or zoo ...
Marcus Clauss +4 more
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Strategic Thinking and Entrepreneurial Orientation as Drivers of Adaptive Resilience in Global Manufacturing SMEs: A Narrative Review of Dynamic Capabilities and Cross-Context Variations. [PDF]
F1000ResOngesa Nyamboga T.
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The Capital Gains Conundrum: On a Divergence of Green From Traditional Accounting
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding the concept of income and recording it correctly are elemental to economic analysis. A controversy about whether capital gains are a form of income has arisen in green accounting. Virtually all economists assume that at each time there is a unique price of capital from which a capital gain can be calculated.
Robert D. Cairns
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Backcasting the Trust Gap: A Strategic Road Map for Clinician Adoption of AI Diagnostics by 2040. [PDF]
J Med Internet ResYu Y.
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that the current debate over defence spending in the United Kingdom is fundamentally flawed. Too much emphasis is being placed on preparing for a form of warfare with Russia that is unlikely to occur. As this article points out, the Russians actually want to avoid a traditional battlefield confrontation with NATO.
Rod Thornton
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Pacific Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of China's recent real estate crisis, stemming from Evergrande's struggles, on the return and risk profiles of US‐listed exchange traded funds (ETFs) tracking Chinese stock market indexes. Analysing 26 funds from February 2, 2018 to December 31, 2024, we first employ a VAR model to assess contagion and ...
Gerasimos Rompotis +2 more
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