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Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Contemporary conservation goals have a greater chance of success when practitioners collaborate with Indigenous communities. The importance of such collaborations has spurred calls by Western and Indigenous researchers to engage in equitable coproduction of ecological research that integrates multiple ways of knowing.
Kathleen A. Carroll +4 more
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The specifics of non‐routine task changes: A granular approach
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper estimates granular specific non‐routine tasks and examines employment reallocation across those tasks in the United States. Employment shifts into decision‐making, technology, and information‐related tasks account for 90% of high‐wage employment growth.
Carol A. Scotese
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Monitoring track irregularities using multi-source on-board measurement data
Railway Engineering ScienceAccurate monitoring of track irregularities is very helpful to improving the vehicle operation quality and to formulating appropriate track maintenance strategies.
Qinglin Xie +6 more
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Carpooling and employers: a multilevel modelling approach [PDF]
, 2009 Both public policy-makers and private companies promote carpooling as a commuting alternative in order to reduce the number of Single Occupant Vehicle (SOV) users.
Jourquin, Bart +5 more
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Not‐so‐Freeway: A Relational Approach to Checkpoints and Conflict in Northeast India
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Along arterial roads in northeast India, bordering Myanmar, various armed groups and state actors collect ‘taxes’ at checkpoints. These checkpoints are sites of interaction where the power dynamics between armed groups, state officials and civilians are constantly negotiated, embedded in a larger network of social and political relationships ...
Shalaka Thakur
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Necessity and effects of dynamic systems for railway wheel defect detection [PDF]
, 2012 State of railway vehicles highly influences transport safety due to vehicle derailments and in the same time worsens the quality of freight and passenger transportation.
G. Stojić +4 more
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Defining the geographical level of competition: a taxonomy of industry tradability
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract The paper develops a taxonomy of industry tradability to define the geographical level at which competition takes place. First, it creates a novel dataset that combines production and international trade data for both goods and services industries, defined at a detailed (3‐digit) level of industry aggregation for 15 European countries.
Sara Calligaris +4 more
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Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in The Times newspaper.
William Quinn +2 more
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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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Estimating the damage and marginal cost of different vehicle types on rail infrastructure: combining economic and engineering approaches [PDF]
, 2014 EU legislation requires that European infrastructure managers set access charges based on the marginal cost of running trains on their networks. Two methods have been used in the literature for this purpose.
Iwnicki, Simon +4 more
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