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Remaking State Power Through a Paraquat Ban in Malaysia
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the state in its ability to enact environmental regulations. Specifically, this study investigates how Malaysian state actors changed, shifted and betrayed various, oftentimes competing interests to ban paraquat, an acutely toxic herbicide.
Caitlyn Sears
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RESCON: Educational project scheduling software. [PDF]
In this article we discuss a freely downloadable educational software tool for illustrating project scheduling and project management concepts. The tool features exact and heuristic scheduling procedures and visualizes project networks, project schedules,
Deblaere, Filip +2 more
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Vessel Scheduling Optimization Model Based on Variable Speed in a Seaport with One-Way Navigation Channel. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2021 Liu D, Shi G, Hirayama K.
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Social enterprises are frontrunners in social innovation, yet our understanding of how they can scale their social impact beyond local, contained contexts remains nascent. To transform the institutional environment that gives rise to social problems, social enterprises must mobilize actors with divergent interests, values, and beliefs to ...
Janina Klein +2 more
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Integrating nurse and surgery scheduling. [PDF]
Scheduling; Surgery scheduling; International; Theory; Applications; Euro; Researchers;
Belien, Jeroen, Demeulemeester, Erik
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Governments have become increasingly active players in corporate social responsibility (CSR), with many countries adopting more stringent regulations for firms to pursue goals not limited to profit‐making. However, more recently, some jurisdictions have seen a backlash against CSR, which implies that the state's role in CSR is reversing from ...
Alan Brejnholt +2 more
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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
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Heuristic procedures for reactive project scheduling. [PDF]
This paper describes new heuristic reactive project scheduling procedures that may be used to repair resource-constrained roject baseline schedules that suer from multiple activity duration disruptions during project execution.The objective is to ...
Van de Vonder, S +3 more
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Using ethnographic vignettes from my doctoral research, this article contextualizes and analyses Britain's Black maternal health crisis— a crisis of reproductive racism— through a Black feminist lens. The inequities Black mothers face has a strong Black (and) feminist history of being analyzed in relation to the politics of anti‐Black racism ...
Princess Banda
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A novel class of scheduling policies for the stochastic resource-constrained project scheduling problem. [PDF]
We study the resource-constrained project scheduling problem with stochastic activity durations. We introduce a new class of scheduling policies for this problem, which make a number of a-priori sequencing decisions in a pre-processing phase, while the ...
Leus, Roel +2 more
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