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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Markov property of monotone Lévy processes

open access: yes, 2004
21 pagesMonotone Lévy processes with additive increments are defined and studied. It is shown that these processes have a natural Markov structure and their Markov transition semigroups are characterized using the monotone Lévy-Khintchine formula ...
Muraki, Naofumi, Franz, Uwe
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Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy Applied to Reservoir Recognition and Evolution on Marine Carbonatic Ramp—Macaé Group (Albian to Cenomanian) of Campos Basin

open access: yesGeological Journal, EarlyView.
A classic oil producing interval of the Campos Basin—Macaé Group is revisited through seismic stratigraphic analysis, providing a stratigraphic framework, characteristic depositional and relative time positioning for several complex structural settings.
Renata Alvarenga   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subordinated Markov Branching Processes and Lévy Processes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
[Mayster Penka; Майстер Пенка]We consider the jump structure of the subordinated Lévy processes and subordinated Markov branching processes. Subordination provides a method of constructing a large subclass of Markov or Lévy processes Y (t) = X(T (t ...
Mayster, Penka
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Policy Progress in Using Economic Policy Instruments to Improve Nutrition: Challenges and Opportunities

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Economic policy can be a powerful instrument to influence food environments and support improved diets and health. Over the past 20 years, the use of fiscal policy to improve diets has increased dramatically. This paper reviews the trajectory of policy change, and explores the ways in which research has informed three different dimensions of ...
Anne Marie Thow
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-dimensional Lévy Processes and Lévy Copulas For Dependent Degradation Processes in Reliability Analysis

open access: yes, 2019
Cumulative degradation is one of unavoidable failure mechanisms that occur in many engineering systems in chemical, civil, mechanical and other fields. These deterioration phenomena are caused by internal structures and dynamic external conditions.
Shi, Yu
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Embracing Complexity in HRM Research: A Call for System and Process Perspectives

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human resource management (HRM) is inherently complex. It involves systems of principles, practices, and activities operating at individual, group, organizational, and macro levels, which are interlinked through complex processes. Yet, empirical research has not kept pace with this conceptual richness.
Rebecca Hewett, Madleen Meier‐Barthold
wiley   +1 more source

(How) Can Performance Appraisals Improve Employee Creativity? A Multidimensional Perspective

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Performance appraisal (PA) is commonly used by organizations to manage their employees. However, the role of PAs in employee creativity remains ambiguous, with positive, negative, or even nonsignificant relationships reported in the literature. The aim of the present research is to address this ambiguity.
Xiaoya Wen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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