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The HIAL storm: Resisting the technological transformation of air traffic control

open access: yesNew Technology, Work and Employment, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 309-329, July 2025.
Abstract Whether and under what conditions the implementation of technology can be resisted hinges on how labour can mobilise structural, associational, institutional, coalitional and ideational power resources. The failed attempt of Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) to create a remote tower centre at Inverness to control air traffic at ...
Huw Thomas, Peter Turnbull
wiley   +1 more source

Dialectal speech self–evaluation and vitality: Šakiai and Jurbarkas sub-dialects in the beginning of the twenty-first century

open access: yesLietuvių Kalba, 2015
Šakiai and Jurbarkas sub-dialects belong to the northern part Western Highlanders of Kaunas region. There is described location of this area in the Lithuanian dialect classification, specific features, dialectal speech self–evaluation and vitality in the
Rima Bakšienė
doaj   +1 more source

Drinking Locally: A Water 87Sr/86Sr Isoscape for Geolocation of Archeological Samples in the Peruvian Andes

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
The analysis of 87Sr/86Sr has become a robust tool for identifying non-local individuals at archeological sites. The 87Sr/86Sr in human bioapatite reflects the geological signature of food and water consumed during tissue development.
Beth K. Scaffidi   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

History and Legacy of Andean Research in Nuñoa, Peru

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Human Biology, Volume 37, Issue 6, June 2025.
ABSTRACT The high‐altitude town and associated political district of Nuñoa, Peru, has served as an anthropological field research site for more than 60 years. The earliest studies were initiated by Paul T. Baker and his students from Penn State University in 1962.
Michael A. Little   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combat Motivation and the Roots of Fanaticism: The 12th SS Panzer Division in Normandy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The post-First World War dispute between Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defence from October 1911 to November 1916 and Sir Arthur Currie, General Officer Commanding the Canadian Corps from 9 June 1917 to the end of the war, must be one of the ...
Sullivan, Michael E.
core   +1 more source

The genetic architecture of adaptations to high altitude in Ethiopia.

open access: yesPLoS Genetics, 2012
Although hypoxia is a major stress on physiological processes, several human populations have survived for millennia at high altitudes, suggesting that they have adapted to hypoxic conditions.
Gorka Alkorta-Aranburu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Are the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines effective? Meta-analysis of the prospective trials

open access: yesBMC Family Practice, 2000
The objective was to review the evidence of effectiveness of the polyvalent polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine from prospective properly randomised controlled trials comparing pneumococcal vaccines with placebo in subjects who are immunocompetent and ...
Lipsky Benjamin A   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Pushing Their Necks Out”: Ultra, The Black Watch, and Command Relations, May-sur-Orne, Normandy, 5 August 1944 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In 1974 Group Captain Frederick Winterbotham shocked the world when he revealed in his semiautobiographical work, The Ultra Secret, that the Allies had been breaking high-grade German ciphers throughout the greater portion of the Second World War in an ...
O\u27Keefe, David R.
core   +1 more source

The RCRs in Sicily [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Account given by Major T.M. Powers, second-in-command Royal Canadian Regiment, on 18 August 1943 in battalion rest area near SCORDIA ...
Powers, T.M.
core   +1 more source

The Andean adaptive toolkit to counteract high altitude maladaptation: genome-wide and phenotypic analysis of the Collas.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
During their migrations out of Africa, humans successfully colonised and adapted to a wide range of habitats, including extreme high altitude environments, where reduced atmospheric oxygen (hypoxia) imposes a number of physiological challenges.
Christina A Eichstaedt   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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