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Transform methods for precision continuum and control models of flexible space structures [PDF]
An open loop optimal control algorithm is developed for general flexible structures, based on Laplace transform methods. A distributed parameter model of the structure is first presented, followed by a derivation of the optimal control algorithm.
Chun, Hon M. +2 more
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Old School Catalog 1916-17, Chicago College of Dental Surgery [PDF]
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Valparaiso University
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Abstract World markets for quality differentiated agri‐food products are highly competitive, presenting significant challenges for firms aiming to compete effectively. Government agencies and business organizations often implement various export promotion policies to address these challenges.
Nicolás Depetris‐Chauvin +1 more
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Review Essay: Society as a Dialectical Process—Victor Turner in Between Ndembu and Bob Dylan
In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure the anthropologist Victor Witter TURNER who died in 1983 examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia. Here he develops his concept of Communitas, which in the meantime has become famous.
Volker Barth
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ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the influence of Wine Tourism (WT) on the Sustainable Performance (SP) of wineries in Spain. It particularly investigates how Corporate Social Legitimacy (CSL) and Green Innovation (GI) may act as intermediary factors in this relationship.
Javier Martínez‐Falcó +3 more
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The culture of water cure in nineteenth-century Austria, 1800-1914 [PDF]
This chapter was an invited contribution to an edited collection, bringing together new and international scholarship in an examination of the relationship between the modern practices of tourism and the built environment.
Steward, Jill
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The Bitter Taste of Brazil's Temporary Import Ban on Robusta Coffee
ABSTRACT Brazil, a leading Robusta coffee producer and exporter, faced a significant drought in 2016–2017, which drastically reduced production and depleted stocks. Consequently, Brazil temporarily permitted the import of one million 60‐kg bags of Robusta coffee in the spring 2017. An import ban was imposed shortly afterward due to lobbying by domestic
Hanifi Otgun +2 more
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Losing Deixis: Referentialist Cosmologies in Postcolonial East-Africa and Beyond [PDF]
The advantage of comparing ng’hambo and nyato in terms of their deictic versus referential discourse is methodological. To substantiate our hypothesis, we examine respective instances of oracular discourse (applying among others Silverstein’s semiotic ...
Stroeken, Koenraad
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ABSTRACT The origin of a product, if associated with good quality, can contribute to building a positive collective reputation, leading to a potential price premium. However, it is conceivable that a producer markets a product by evoking symbols, images, words, and values typical of places other than where it was designed or produced, creating a ...
Annalisa Caloffi +2 more
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Betwixt and Between Past and Present: Cultural and Generic Hybridity in the Fiction of Mary Yukari Waters [PDF]
The cosmopolitan make-up of the American society has yielded cultural hybrid offspring and this cultural hybridity features strongly in contemporary American fiction.
Youssef, Rania Samir
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