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Fish Scales: A Multifunctional Biomaterial from Nature

ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
Fish scales demonstrate nature's solution to impact protection through overlapping multilayered architecture. This biological design combines mineralized surfaces with collagen networks to achieve both flexibility and fracture resistance. The structural principles inspire advanced protective materials and biomedical implants, where damage tolerance ...
Liyao Dong, Xiaojie Sun, Xiguang Chen
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Carrying Canadian Troops: The Story of RMS \u3cem\u3eOlympic\u3c/em\u3e as a First World War Troopship [PDF]

, 2012
In the long adventurous life of Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Olympic, the older sister of the ill-fated RMS Titanic, the time she spent as a troopship ferrying Canadian troops during the First World War is a notable but frequently overlooked part of her career.
Gray, David R.
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Embracing Complexity in HRM Research: A Call for System and Process Perspectives

Human 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
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Analysis of Olympic education theoretical readiness of future physical culture teachers

Physical Education of Students, 2015
Purpose: analysis of Olympic knowledge system in future physical culture teachers. Material: in the research 180 4 year students of physical culture faculties participated. Results: it was found that students’ theoretical knowledge level in the sphere of
A.A. Bondar
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Post-Olympic anticlimax [PDF]

Obstetric Medicine, 2012
We are writing this in the week after the London 2012 Olympics. Even the most cynical of Brits were forced to join in the infectious and friendly atmosphere that impressed all visitors to a city not normally known for its welcoming and helpful inhabitants. The unifying power of sport that the world witnessed was impressive.
Catherine, Nelson-Piercy, Sandra, Lowe
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London 2012 and the impact of the UK’s Olympic and Paralympic legislation: protecting commerce or preserving culture? [PDF]

, 2011
The general commercial rights associated with the Olympic Movement are protected in the UK by the Olympic Symbols etc (Protection) Act 1995. In addition, the UK Government, in response to a requirement of the Host City Contract with the International ...
James, M., James, M., Osborn, G., Osborn, G.   +3 more
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Risk return of forward contracting corn with crop insurance

Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, EarlyView.
Abstract Forward contracting is a common pre‐harvest marketing strategy for row crops, with evidence suggesting higher prices during summer months due to embedded weather risk premiums. While aggressive forward contracting increases farmers' yield risk and potential non‐delivery penalties, crop revenue protection can help offset these financial burdens.
Chandan Bhattarai, Andrew McKenzie, Hunter Biram, Jesse Tack, Alvaro Durand‐Morat   +4 more
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The Spatial Dimension of Winter Olympic Village. Between local model and regionalisation strategies

Eracle
Since the second half of the 20th century, the editions of the Winter Olympic Games have catalysed different urban transformations, allowing the development of a new critical perspective on the spatial dimension of the Olympic event.
Valerio della Sala
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Consuming the Olympics: the fan, the rights holder and the law [PDF]

, 2010
The London Olympic Games and Paralympics Act 2006 (the Act) received its Royal Assent on 30 March 2006, well over six years before the Games themselves are due to begin.
James, MD, Osborn, G
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Physical education as Olympic education [PDF]

, 1998
Introduction In a recent paper (Parry, 1998, p. 64), I argued that the justification of PE activities lies in their capacity to facilitate the development of certain human excellences of a valued kind.
Benn, P., Brundage, A., Carl-Diem-Inst, Eyler, M.H., Grupe, O., Hirst, P.H., Hoberman, J., Ioc, Jim Parry, Kitto, H.D.F., Laemmer, M., Lenk, H., Lenk, H., Lenk, H., MacIntyre, A., Nissiotis, N., Paleologos, K., Parry, J., Parry, J., Parry, J., Parry, J., Parry, J., Roesch, H-E., Samaranche, J-A., Segrave, J.O., Segrave, J.O., Young, D.C.   +26 more
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