Organizing to Win: Introduction [PDF]
, 1998 [Excerpt] The American labor movement is at a watershed. For the first time since the early years of industrial unionism sixty years ago, there is near-universal agreement among union leaders that the future of the movement depends on massive new ...
Bronfenbrenner, Kate +4 more
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Towards Better Understanding Researcher Strategies in Cross-Lingual Event Analytics
, 2018 With an increasing amount of information on globally important events, there is a growing demand for efficient analytics of multilingual event-centric information.
Bernacchi, Viola +3 more
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Prepare your indicators: Economics imperialism on the shores of law and development [PDF]
, 2011 This article explores the influence of economics on the demand for, and deployment of, indicators in the context of the World Bank's investment climate campaign.
Amanda Perry-Kessaris +34 more
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Reconstruction of global solar radiation time series from 1933 to 2013 at the Izaña Atmospheric Observatory [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2014 This paper presents the reconstruction of the 80-year time series of daily global solar radiation (GSR) at the subtropical high-mountain Izaña Atmospheric Observatory (IZO) located in Tenerife (The Canary Islands, Spain). For this purpose, we combine GSR
R. D. García +7 more
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Friends of the Earth International: negotiating a transnational identity [PDF]
, 2006 The aim of this article is to assess the relationships between majority (South) and minority (North) world environmental groups by focusing on one of the largest transnational environmental organisations: Friends of the Earth International (FoEI):1 1 ...
Doherty, BJA
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Combined Heat and Power Systems for the Provision of Sustainable Energy from Biomass in Buildings
E3S Web of Conferences, 2016 Against the background of greenhouse gases causing climate change, combined heat and power (CHP) systems fueled by biomass can efficiently supply energy with high flexibility.
Ortwein Andreas
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A 4-D climatology (1979–2009) of the monthly tropospheric aerosol optical depth distribution over the Mediterranean region from a comparative evaluation and blending of remote sensing and model products [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2013 Since the 1980s several spaceborne sensors have been used to retrieve the aerosol optical depth (AOD) over the Mediterranean region. In parallel, AOD climatologies coming from different numerical model simulations are now also available, permitting to ...
P. Nabat +16 more
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Does the Constitution Allow President to Ban Muslims? [PDF]
, 2017 [Excerpt] The president-elect has stated that he intends to protect national security by banning Muslim immigration into the United States. He also has signaled an openness to some form of Muslim registration program.
Greabe, John M.
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Challenging media (mis)representation: an exploration of available models [PDF]
, 2018 This article is a theoretical analysis aimed at articulating the harm caused by media (mis)representation, and at showing existing ways in which this harm can be contested. The approaches analysed are largely from the United Kingdom.
Perez Portilla, Karla
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