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From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
wiley   +1 more source

Shaping Manager Well‐Being and Functioning in Declining Nonprofit Organizations: The Critical Role of Strategy Implementation

open access: yesNonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Under the roof of Christian churches in Central Europe, some nonprofit organizations (NPOs) grow, while others are in marked decline. Our study in this context extends a previous focus on financial indicators to NPO managers' experiences, their role clarity and job satisfaction, during phases of organizational growth and decline. Specifically,
Max Niehoff, Johannes Stark
wiley   +1 more source

(Review) Globalizing Roman Culture: Unity, Diversity and Empire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Reviews Richard Hingley\u27s book entitled Globalizing Roman Culture: Unity, Diversity and Empire. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xiii, 208. ISBN 0-415-35176-6.
Adler, Eric
core   +1 more source

Modulation of North Atlantic atmospheric rivers by the Gulf Stream

open access: yesQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
Gulf Stream ocean variability plays a key role in modulating atmospheric river (AR) activity over the North Atlantic during winter and spring at monthly time‐scales. Increased ocean heat transport and mesoscale activity in the Gulf Stream are linked to northward shifts in ARs, while stronger surface heat fluxes drive ARs southward.
Ferran Lopez‐Marti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Winning Hearts and Minds: Tactics of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Early Roman Empire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The most common strategy for Romanizing a province was through developing connections with elites in the indigenous society coupled with (in many cases) the inclusion of regional gods into the Roman pantheon.
Cline, Wesley C.
core   +1 more source

Land, freedom and the making of the medieval West [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In the course of the fifth and sixth centuries, barbarian warbands acquired property rights in the former provinces of the Roman west, in a process that established the broad structural characteristics of early medieval society in western Europe: that is
Innes, Matthew
core   +1 more source

Early use of the reinforced concrete in the architecture of the Historicism in Austria–Hungary

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract The study examines the early incorporation of reinforced concrete in the architecture of Historicism in Austria–Hungary. Spanning the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the research illuminates the period's stylistic pluralism and the transformative impact of reinforced concrete.
Éva Lovra, Zoltán Bereczki
wiley   +1 more source

Das Partherreich als Bindeglied der Seidenstraße zwischen China und Rom

open access: yesHistoria.scribere, 2019
This paper analyses the role of the Parthian Empire in the Silk Road trade between China and the Roman Empire. It examines Parthian, Roman and Chinese sources to achieve a better understanding of its importance for trade contacts along the Silk Road.
Bettina Darlap
doaj   +1 more source

In Search of Lost Memories: Domestic Spheres and Identities in Roman Amheida, Egypt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Memory and heritage are critical components for identity formation. Within the context of empire, the display of heritage represents and transforms connections between individuals and their relationship to society.
Boozer, Anna
core   +2 more sources

Data informed performance assessment and structural health monitoring for existing and historical concrete structures

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Our generation inherits this cultural heritage of historic material and historic reinforced concrete structures and thus bears a certain responsibility to preserve these historic buildings with the help of the new technologies of lifetime management, conservation concepts and the new digitalization as well as the emerging safety concepts of ...
A. Strauss
wiley   +1 more source

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