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Solar Sailing: applications and technology advancement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Harnessing the power of the Sun to propel a spacecraft may appear somewhat ambitious and the observation that light exerts a force contradicts everyday experiences.
Macdonald, Malcolm
core   +4 more sources

Solar sail science mission applications and advancement : solar sailing: concepts, technology, missions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Solar sailing has long been envisaged as an enabling or disruptive technology. The promise of open-ended missions allows consideration of radically new trajectories and the delivery of spacecraft to previously unreachable or unsustainable observation ...
Macdonald, Malcolm, McInnes, Colin
core   +4 more sources

MARKET MÜŞTERİLERİNİN MEMNUNİYET ARAŞTIRMASI: ERZURUM İÇİN BİR UYGULAMA

open access: yesSosyal Ekonomik Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2007
Market müşterilerinin demografik özellikleri (cinsiyet, yaş, medeni durum, eğitim düzeyi) ve gelir düzeyleri ile market ve ürüne ilişkin bazı özellikler dikkate alınarak Erzurum’daki market müşterilerinin memnuniyetinin incelenmesi bu çalışmanın temel ...
Hüseyin Özer, Erkan Oktay, Fuat Lebe
doaj   +4 more sources

Covid-19 and the Northern Ireland retail sector [Podcast] EP14

open access: yes, 2020
Ben Cooper is joined by Mairi Spowage, Deputy Director of the Institute and Aodhán Connolly, Director of the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium, to discuss how the current pandemic is affecting the retail sector in Northern Ireland.
Cooper, Ben   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

The trading profiles of community retail enterprises [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the key features of the community retail enterprises sector in the UK.Design/ methodology/ approach - This paper reports on the results of a postal questionnaire survey of 197 community retail ...
Davies, Keri, Calderwood, Eric
core   +1 more source

Applying evolutionary models to the retail sector

open access: yes, 1998
Retail change has been an area which has interested academics for a number of years and numerous theories have been produced to model and predict change.
Davies, Keri
core   +1 more source

Reshaping Labor Intermediation: An Integrated Workforce Management Strategy to Contrast Agricultural Workers' Exploitation in Italy

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Labor exploitation within agri‐food supply chains poses significant ethical and managerial challenges, particularly in Mediterranean contexts where irregular employment practices persist. This study investigates the case of NoCap, a third‐party ethical certification initiative operating in Italy that integrates social responsibility into ...
Claudio Mirabella   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

The role of structural transformation in regional convergence in Japan: 1874–2008

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Japan's regional convergence of productivity levels throughout the twentieth century can be best described as a cumulative process of ‘catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind’. Using a novel dataset spanning 135 years (1874–2008), this study finds support for a crucial role played by structural transformation in convergence. The pace of
Kyoji Fukao, Saumik Paul
wiley   +1 more source

Tariff Transmission Across US Customs Districts: Product‐Level Evidence From Successive Trade Shocks

open access: yesThe World Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper asks how US tariffs on Chinese imports reshape trade across the nation's customs districts, and whether a district's earlier reliance on China shapes how deeply its imports fall. We build a monthly panel of HS6‐level US imports from eleven source countries arriving through eight customs districts between January 2017 and December ...
Wenhao Yao, Shimiao Su, Yunan Yao
wiley   +1 more source

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