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Locked In: the Silent Siege of Dubrovnik by the Tourism Industry [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis argues that Yugoslavia and an independent Croatia used Dubrovnik's cultural heritage to define and substantiate themselves as they emerged from political upheaval, disrupted economies, and nascent institutional foundations and thus firmly ...
Racusin, Lauren A.
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This study investigates laser shock peening for enhancing fatigue performance of riveted aerospace aluminum joints. A comparative approach with cold expansion combines fatigue testing and synchrotron X‐ray methods. Integrating mechanical testing with residual stress and strain characterization provides insights into how different treatments affect the ...
Ogün Baris Tapar +6 more
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Adaptation or Manipulation? Unpacking Climate Change Response Strategies
Ecology and Society, 2012 Adaptation is a key feature of sustainable social-ecological systems. As societies traverse various temporal and spatial scales, they are exposed to differing contexts and precursors for adaptation.
Dana C. Thomsen +2 more
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Landslides, 2017 Landslides are a major category of natural disasters, causing loss of lives, livelihoods and property. The critical roles played by triggering (such as extreme rainfall and earthquakes), and intrinsic factors (such as slope steepness, soil properties and
J. Samia +6 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Freeze‐drying of layered silicate is the key to get coatings with superior gas barrier. Freeze‐drying of layered silicates modified with dodecylamine (DDA) is a highly effective technique for the preparation of barrier pigments that significantly mitigate the permeation of oxygen, water vapor, and hydrogen through polymer films containing these ...
Joshua Lommes +4 more
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ROMANIA – TO HAVE OR NOT TO HAVE ITS OWN DEVELOPMENT PATH? [PDF]
CES Working Papers, 2016 Human societies are evolving in sequences similar to a business cycle. The cause for which the evolution is accompanied by setbacks lies in the complexity of social systems, which, ab initio, cannot be designed or intended by any human mind, and the ...
Gabriela Bodea, Aurelian Petrus Plopeanu
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Beggar-Thy-Neighbour vs. Danube Basin Strategy: Habsburg Economic Networks in Interwar Europe
Religions, 2016 After the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire, leaders in successor states were eager to become economically independent from the former capital Vienna.
Andreas Weigl
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Path Dependency in Jury Decision Making
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018 A large behavioral economics literature is concerned with cognitive biases in individual and group decisions, including sequential decisions. These studies often find a negative path-dependency consistent with mechanisms such as the gambler's fallacy ...
Anna Bindler, Randi Hjalmarsson
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Innovation as a community-spanning process: strategies to handle path dependency. [PDF]
In this paper, we further develop and apply the notions of path creation and path dependency during technological innovation processes. The process of technological innovation is portrayed as an activity of spanning boundaries between and across ...
Bouwen, René +2 more
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