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Requirements of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation for Emergency Announcer Systems [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1937 To replace the use of megaphones to give orders to crew and passengers in times of disaster and other emergencies, Congress has passed certain laws requiring the use of sound amplifying systems on American ocean vessels. Such a system would be used in times of emergency to summon the crew, direct passengers to embarkation deck and life boats, and to ...
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
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B fields in OB stars (BOB): FORS2 spectropolarimetric follow-up of the two rare rigidly rotating magnetosphere stars HD23478 and HD345439 [PDF]
, 2015 Massive B-type stars with strong magnetic fields and fast rotation are very rare and provide a mystery for theories of both star formation and magnetic field evolution. Only two such stars, called sigma Ori E analogs, were previously known.
L. Fossati +10 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how national education in Hong Kong functions as a contested arena in which state and non‐state actors struggle over the meaning of citizenship, identity and schooling. Using inductive frame analysis of 319 news articles (2020–2025) from five Chinese‐ and English‐language outlets, it identifies diagnostic, prognostic and ...
Jason Cong Lin
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Current bibliography: 21 Oct. 2009 - 15 Nov. 2010
CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research, 2010 In addition to supplements to the last two preceding years the publications of the present year are shown: almost one citation per day, which gives the average speed of publishing with regard to chironomids.
Odwin Hoffrichter
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Tax enforcement problems. [PDF]
We study an income tax enforcement problem using a principal-agent model where the government sets the tax and inspection functions. These are announced to the agents and there is no commitment problem.
Marhuenda, Francisco, Ortuño, Ignacio
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms' continuous pursuit of making a profit in the competitive market may ignore the actions related to environmental responsibilities. This set of actions for financial gains constitutes environmental misconduct, which not only harms ecosystems and communities but also brings reputational damage. Negative press and social media amplification
Ashutosh Singh +3 more
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Do Health Care Providers Quality Discriminate? Empirical Evidence from Primary Care Outpatient Clinics [PDF]
There has been minimal attention paid to the mechanisms of hospital quality oversight that are currently in place. Accordingly this study will analyze the system of hospital quality regulation in the US.
Christopher Stevens +2 more
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Seeds of Change: Impact of Interventions by Bayer and Monsanto on the Elimination of Child Labour on Farms Producing Hybrid Cottonseed in India [PDF]
, 2007 seeds_of_change_final.pdf: 700 downloads, before Oct.
Venkateswarlu, Davuluri
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