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What about Tornadoes Makes Cars Fly?
, 2023 Tornadoes move and evolve throughout their lifetime, causing several types of forces against objects. Although vehicles are observed to fly in real tornadoes, simulating this experimentally and numerically has been very difficult – the vehicles do not ...
Haan, Fred, Lee, Minji
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Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how salient sustainability risks from near‐miss natural disasters influence board composition. Using a difference‐in‐differences design, I find that firms located in counties neighboring disaster‐affected areas significantly increase the presence of directors with sustainability expertise following the disaster.
Bo Wang
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Tornadoes in Europe: An underestimated threat
, 2017 The social and economical impact of tornadoes in Europe is analyzed using tornado reports from the European Severe Weather Database between 1950 and 2015.
Schultz, David; id_orcid +3 more
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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, 2003 Los tornados son destructivos desastres naturales con efectos devastadores sobre la vida humana. Cada año causan grandes daños a las personas,los bienes y al mundo natural. Explica por qué se producen,los daños que pueden causar y cómo se advierte con antelación a la población en riesgo. Mapas de localización y recuadros de sucesos ayudan a entender lo
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Peer Effects on Climate Change Beliefs
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how climate change beliefs are shaped by peer networks is critical for designing effective climate communication strategies, yet the degree of peer influence across spatial and political contexts remains insufficiently understood.
Xialing Zhao, Linlin Fan, Yilan Xu
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Typical Dream Themes in a Large Internet Sample: A Replication and Extension
Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Typical content themes in dreams still defy clear explanation. While a series of studies administering typical dream theme questionnaires mainly to college students point to a surprising consistency in the prevalence of such themes over gender, age, culture, and time, it is still unclear how generalizable such findings are to the larger ...
Claire A. Friedrich, Tore Nielsen
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Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how pro‐environmental behaviors (PEBs) of public sector employees can be stimulated using management control. We mobilize the theory of planned behavior to hypothesize that employee environmental concerns are associated with PEBs, and that this relation can be strengthened by management control instruments that provide ...
Berend van der Kolk +2 more
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Public Administration and the Crisis of American Democracy
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The field of public administration stands amid genuine crisis. Americans don't trust government or its administrators. Elected officials have attacked the career service as agents of the “deep state” and, though it might be hard to admit, many of public administration's critics have a point.
Donald F. Kettl
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