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Rationalization in the Canadian Retail Gasoline Industry: The Role of Environmental Regulations [PDF]
The number of gasoline stations in Canada fell by 40 percent between 1989 and 2000. Many demand and competition related explanations have been offered for this rationalization, while industry sources cite stiffer environmental regulations as a factor in ...
Eckert, Heather, Eckert, Andrew
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Vivere il presente, progettare il futuro. L’esperienza sociale della transizione professionale
Cambio, 2018 The aim of this paper is to explore the social experiences of some workers in different professional transition scenarios. I focus on observing subjective practices, precariousness and impermanences in order to grasp the tensions in individual experience
Leonardo Piromalli
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Stretching the Printability Metric in Direct‐Ink Writing with Highly Extensible Yield‐Stress Fluids
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This study introduces “drawability” as a new metric for assessing printability in direct‐ink writing, focusing on gap‐spanning performance and speed robustness. By designing yield‐stress fluids with high extensibility, we demonstrate that extensional strain‐to‐break significantly enhances printability.
Chaimongkol Saengow +9 more
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Control of Polarization and Polar Helicity in BiFeO3 by Epitaxial Strain and Interfacial Chemistry
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.In BiFeO3 thin films, the interplay of interfacial chemistry, electrostatics, and epitaxial strain is engineered to stabilize homohelicity in polarization textures at the domain scale. The synergistic use of a Bi2O2‐terminated Aurivillius buffer layer and a highly anisotropic compressive epitaxial strain offers new routes to control the polar‐texture ...
Elzbieta Gradauskaite +5 more
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, 2009 In 1908 the Welsh neurologist and psychoanlayst Ernest Jones described human beings as rationalizers whose behavior is governed by "the necessity of providing an explanation. " We construct a formal model of rationalization.
Timothy Feddersen +2 more
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Vojnotehnički Glasnik, 2011 This paper analyzes the effectiveness of possible models for queuing at gas stations, using a mathematical model of the large-scale queuing theory. Based on actual data collected and the statistical analysis of the expected intensity of vehicle arrivals ...
Slaviša M. Ilić, Marko D. Andrejić
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Ferroelectricity in Antiferromagnetic Wurtzite Nitrides
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.We establish MnSiN2${\rm MnSiN}_2$ and MnGeN2${\rm MnGeN}_2$ as aristotypes of a new multiferroic wurtzite family that simultaneously exhibits ferroelectricity and antiferromagnetism with altermagnetic spin splitting. By strategically substituting alkaline‐earth metals, we predict new materials with coexisting switchable polarization, spin texture, and
Steven M. Baksa +3 more
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, 2012 Rationalization refers to a historical process in which one form of reasoning or rationality - instrumental rationality - grounded in a distinction between means and ends and based on calculation comes to predominate. The spread of instrumental reason is
Scott, Alan
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China’s industrial structure rationalization index, 2012–2020.
, 2023 China’s industrial structure rationalization index, 2012–2020.
Wenhong He (16814032) +4 more
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Le concept de routine dans la socio-anthropologie de la vie quotidienne
Espace populations sociétés, 2015 The routine concerns the institutional structuring of time and personal automatisms that everyone put in place, both to protect themselves from threatening uncertainty as to avoid the weight of small permanent decisions, freeing vital energy and possible
Salvador Juan
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