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Contract Governance and the Canadian Public Sector [PDF]
, 2003 This essay examines the changing character of public sector work in the Canadian federal public service context. It is based on an empirical examination of various forms of contractual relations currently operative within the Canadian state and on a ...
Ilcan, Suzan M. +2 more
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Adaptive Twisting Metamaterials
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This work introduces torque‐controlled twisting metamaterials as a transformative platform for adaptive crashworthiness. By combining multiscale predictive modeling with experimental validation on additively manufactured gyroids, it demonstrates tunable stiffness, collapse stress, and energy absorption.
Mattia Utzeri +6 more
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Savons : produits, marché et évolution des matières premières
Oléagineux, Corps gras, Lipides, 2001 Le premier produit s’apparentant au savon est apparu dès l’Antiquité. Composé d’un mélange de cendres, de graisses, de plantes (saponaire), d’argile à goudron et de détergents minéraux, ce produit ressemblait plus à une lessive qu’à notre savon.
Gadrat Pierre
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Transatlantica, 2011 This article examines the coincidence of apparently contradictory ballot measure results in Colorado in 2006 as a case study of the significance of this form of direct democracy for progressive social movements: are ballot measures an opportunity or a ...
Guillaume Marche
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The Geography of Success: A Spatial Analysis of Export Intensity in the Italian Wine Industry
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the paradox of how Italy's fragmented, SME‐dominated wine industry achieves global export success. Moving beyond purely firm‐centric explanations, we test whether export intensity is spatially dependent, clustering geographically in regional ecosystems.
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Jonas Di Vita
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Noonan syndrome (NS) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by a broad spectrum of clinical features resulting from dysregulation of the RAS/MAPK pathway. Although complex genotypes are increasingly recognized in NS, cases harboring two distinct pathogenic variants in different NS genes remain extremely rare.
Francesco Prevedello +10 more
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Too little destruction, too little creation: a Schumpeterian diagnosis of the barriers to sustained growth in Ukraine [PDF]
, 2007 This paper examines problems of entry, exit and competition in Ukrainian product markets. It finds that Ukraine still has too little of all three, and that exit mechanisms, in particular, function poorly.
Gianella, Christian, Tompson, William
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Nudging ESG Investments via Digital Financial Advising: Evidence From an Investment Game Experiment
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The influence of financial advisors on retail investors' sustainable investment choices remains surprisingly underexplored, despite their potential to shape investment behavior. This study uses an experimental design to examine how sustainability‐related information provided by a digital (simulated) financial advisor affects individual demand ...
Caterina Lucarelli +2 more
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Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur StudiesDans Parcours de la reconnaissance, Ricoeur développe, en s'appuyant sur la critique de Hobbes par Hegel actualisée par Honneth, une critique de la société de marché.
Pierre-Olivier Monteil
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Selling dreams: advertising strategies from grands magasins to supermarkets in Ghent, 1900-1960 [PDF]
, 1999 As argued above, the specific historical role of the grands magasins follows directly out of their capacity to fuse modernist bourgeois culture and commercial mass production into a dream marriage.
Weber, Donald
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