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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Subjective Social Inequalities, Lay Perceptions of Merit and Puzzles of Explanation
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite rising socioeconomic inequalities most people see individualised merit as crucial for social success. Drawing on surveys such as the ISSP a wealth of research examines trends in subjective perceptions, the relative importance accorded to merit and non‐merit factors for getting ahead in life and factors which influence lay perceptions ...
Sarah Irwin
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, 2014 . In 1942, J. L. Kelley introduced a global uniform property which he called Property 3.2, and used it to prove the contractibility of certain hyperspaces.
J. L. Kelley, Roger W. Wardie
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Designing criterion-referenced assessment
, 2006 Criterion-referenced assessment arguably results in greater reliability, validity and transparency than norm-referenced assessment. This article examines this assertion with reference to an example from a second year undergraduate law unit at the ...
Burton, Kelley, Burton, Kelley J.
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Now You See Them, Now You Don't: Understanding New Hire Ghosting and Its Antecedents
Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT New hire ghosting, in which applicants accept an offer and then quit before their first day without notice, is an emerging and consequential staffing phenomenon. Drawing on job embeddedness theory, we conceptualize new hire ghosting as a form of pre‐entry withdrawal influenced by dispositional risk and the fragile fit, links, and sacrifice ...
Andrew B. Speer +4 more
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, 2007 In 2006, the LWB236 Real Property A Law teaching team in the School of Law at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is replacing a research essay assessment task with a more authentic assessment task that will better equip students for the real ...
Burton, Kelley, Burton, Kelley J.
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Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, EarlyView.The key factors making the monzogranitic porphyry fertile for mineralization, including its high Cl, S, and H2O contents, high oxidation state, significant fluid exsolution, and multiple recharges of deep‐seated mafic magma, were all critical for the formation of the Wunugetushan porphyry Cu‐Mo deposit. ABSTRACT The Wunugetushan (Wushan) porphyry Cu–Mo
Genyuan JI +4 more
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Network Structure and the Efficiency Gains from Mergers: Evidence from U.S. Freight Railroads
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The trade‐off between market power and efficiency gains is central to antitrust analyses of mergers, but empirical evidence quantifying efficiencies remains limited. Using transaction‐level data from U.S. freight railroads (1985–2005), this article quantifies merger‐induced cost efficiencies, driven mainly by eliminating inter‐railroad ...
Yanyou Chen
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Inverse Limits and a Property of J. L. Kelley I
, 2002 In this paper we use inverse limit techniques to prove certain continua have the Property of Kelley. These include all the continua in the uncountable collection of atriodic tree-like continua constructed in [An uncountable collection of mutually ...
Ingram, William Thomas
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Broker and institutional investor short selling
Accounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 621-645, March 2025.Abstract Brokers have access to order‐flow data, which they can use to enhance their short‐selling returns. However, New Zealand brokers also have a fiduciary duty to place their clients' interests before their own. We compare the short‐selling returns and trading behaviours of brokers and institutional investors who predominantly focus on profit ...
Ben R. Marshall +3 more
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