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Visser, Wessel P. "“To Fight the Battles of the Workers”: The Emergence of Pro-strike Publications in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa." International Review of Social History 49, no. 3 (November 29, 2004): 401–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859004001737.
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The role of pro-strike newspapers during the first two decades of labour history in twentieth-century South Africa, an era of intense industrial strife, has not been researched in depth by labour historians. This article examines the emergence of a pro-strike press and examines its position on various strike issues. It served as a conduit for workers' grievances during industrial disputes, such as the strikes of 1911, 1913, 1914, and 1922. Such papers were often also the only means of communication between the strike committee and the strikers themselves. The article also discusses the extent to which such publications might have impacted upon their readership and actual strike action. It concludes that pro-strike literature in essence reflects a “white-labour” discourse and a fusion of the class and racial consciousness that prevailed among the white working class of South Africa.
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Treu, Tiziano. "Regulation of strikes and the European social model." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 8, no. 4 (November 2002): 608–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102425890200800402.
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Regulation of conflict is not currently part of the European social model. This contribution suggests methods for underpinning the European social model with a robust system of industrial relations. One important issue is that of transnational strikes. The author sets out a number of hypotheses for what might constitute legitimate strike action in European terms. Dispute prevention and settlement procedures should be an important part of a European industrial relations system. Italian legislation on public-service strikes, with its focus on users as well as strikers, is discussed. The Italian model provides useful pointers for a European system, balancing as it does the collective and individual interests of the workers and users involved in labour conflicts.
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Addison, John T., and Paulino Teixeira. "Are Good Industrial Relations Good for the Economy?" German Economic Review 10, no. 3 (August 1, 2009): 253–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0475.2009.00461.x.
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Abstract Recent US microeconomic analysis indicates that good industrial relations might improve firm performance. Of late, it has also been claimed that the benefits of industrial relations quality - proxied inversely by a strikes variable - could also extend to the macroeconomy. Using cross-country data, we find that, independent of other labor market institutions, a lower strike volume is associated with lower unemployment. Although there is a separate line of causation running from unemployment to strikes, our analysis suggests that this is not dominant. That said, support for the notion that macro performance owes something to good industrial relations is, however, weakened once we formally control for strike endogeneity.
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SEYMOUR-BUTLER, AIDAN. "“Escaping the Sunken Place: indefinite detention, asylum seekers, and resistance in Yarl’s Wood IRC”." Denning Law Journal 31, no. 1 (January 3, 2020): 167–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/dlj.v31i1.1674.
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The Law Society has recently raised concerns about the UK’s migration system, stating that ‘failures in UK immigration and asylum undermine the rule of law’. Nowhere are those problems more apparent than in the UK’s handling of migrants and asylum seekers in detention centres. A particular recurring issue that speaks to the Law Society’s concern is the absence of a defined time limit for immigration detention. The possibility of indefinite detention has been a source of tension both within British politics, and within UK immigration detention centres. An example of this can be understood with reference to the Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) in Bedfordshire, known for its controversial and rebellious past. In 2015 Nick Hardwick, a former chief prisoner inspector, labelled the Centre a place of ‘national concern’, after examining the mistreatment of vulnerable detainees. Yarl’s Wood’s problematic history, seems to have continued into the present, following a detainee led hunger strike that resulted in ‘renewed concerns’ over health care in detention centres. In addition to protesting the standard of medical treatment received by detainees, the strikers’ underlying focus was on indefinite detention. The Home Office’s response to these strikes was unsympathetic, it sent a letter to detainees suggesting that their continued participation in the strike may in fact result in their removal being accelerated. Although, the hunger strike ended in March 2018 the Home Office’s response to the strike raised some interesting legal and philosophical questions about human rights and resistance in detention centres. In order to grapple with some of these issues, this paper has been separated into two parts. The first part will attempt to contextualise the existing immigration regime and explore how legal disputes might fit within the broader scheme of opposing indefinite detention. It will also briefly examine the legal challenges that may arise from the use of threats of accelerated deportations.
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GOUREVITCH, ALEX. "The Right to Strike: A Radical View." American Political Science Review 112, no. 4 (June 21, 2018): 905–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055418000321.
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Workers face a common dilemma when exercising their right to strike. For the worst-off workers to go on strike with some reasonable chance of success, they must use coercive strike tactics like mass pickets and sit-downs. These tactics violate some basic liberties, such as contract, association, and private property, and the laws that protect those liberties. Which has priority, the right to strike or the basic liberties strikers might violate? The answer depends on why the right to strike is justified. In contrast to liberal and social democratic arguments, on the radical view defended here, the right to strike is a right to resist oppression. This oppression is partly a product of the legal protection of basic economic liberties, which explains why the right to strike has priority over these liberties. The radical view thus best explains why workers may use some coercive, even lawbreaking, strike tactics.
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Stark, Alejo. "Containing the Surplus Rebellion: Prison Strike/Prison Riot." New Global Studies 14, no. 2 (July 25, 2020): 193–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2020-0015.
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AbstractThe 2016 and 2018 wave of prison strikes in the United States presents itself as an extraordinary flashpoint of the prisoner resistance movement. But how might these events be understood in relation to what has been broadly characterized as an “age of riots”? Following Joshua Clover’s characterization of the contemporary riot in Riot. Strike. Riot. as a “surplus rebellion” of racialized “surplus populations” and given the characterization of the contemporary carceral state as a warehouse to contain such racialized populations, this essay characterizes the contemporary wave of prison riots accordingly as a “surplus rebellion.” More specifically, it focuses on the Kinross prison strike-riot that broke out in September 2016 in Michigan’s Kinross prison in order to derive some general parallels between the surplus rebellion and the singularity of recent prison strikes.
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Coombs, Sheryl, James J. Finneran, and Ruth A. Conley. "Hydrodynamic image formation by the peripheral lateral line system of the Lake Michigan mottled sculpin, Cottus bairdi." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 355, no. 1401 (September 29, 2000): 1111–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2000.0649.
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Lake Michigan mottled sculpin ( Cottus bairdi ) have a lateral–line–mediated prey–capture behaviour that consists of an initial orientation towards the prey, a sequence of approach movements, and a final strike at the prey. This unconditioned behaviour can be elicited from blinded sculpin in the laboratory by both real and artificial (vibrating sphere) prey. In order to visualize what Lake Michigan mottled sculpin might perceive through their lateral line when approaching prey, we have combined anatomical, neurophysiological, behavioural and computational modelling techniques to produce three–dimensional maps of how excitation patterns along the lateral line sensory surface change as sculpin approach a vibrating sphere. Changes in the excitation patterns and the information they contain about source location are consistent with behavioural performance, including the approach pathways taken by sculpin to the sphere, the maximum distances at which approaches can be elicited, distances from which strikes are launched, and strike success. Information content is generally higher for laterally located sources than for frontally located sources and this may explain exceptional performance (e.g. successful strikes from unusually long distances) in response to lateral sources and poor performance (e.g. unsuccessful strikes) to frontal sources.
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Stepanuk, JEF, EI Heywood, JF Lopez, RA DiGiovanni Jr, and LH Thorne. "Age-specific behavior and habitat use in humpback whales: implications for vessel strike." Marine Ecology Progress Series 663 (March 31, 2021): 209–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps13638.
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Vessel strikes are a major threat impacting large whales globally. Juvenile whales often represent a high proportion of lethal vessel strikes, but few studies have investigated whether juvenile whales show different behaviors that might influence their risk of vessel strike. We evaluated how variability in habitat use and foraging behavior by age class influences the risk of vessel strike for humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae in the New York Bight (NYB), a highly urbanized region with frequent vessel strikes. We used data from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveys to compare the habitat use and foraging behavior of adult and juvenile humpback whales and compared length measurements of foraging individuals with those confirmed to have been killed by vessel strikes. Further, using Automatic Information System data, we analyzed the speed and density of vessel traffic relative to humpback whale habitat use. The vast majority (93%) of humpback whales confirmed to have been struck by vessels in the NYB were juveniles. Whales foraging in nearshore waters were exclusively juveniles that were surface feeding, while both juveniles and adults foraged cooperatively in offshore waters. Passenger vessel density and speed were highest in nearshore waters. The habitat use and surface foraging behavior of juvenile humpback whales may make them particularly vulnerable to vessel strikes in nearshore waters, and passenger vessels in these waters may be a risk factor. This work highlights the importance of understanding age-specific differences in habitat use to better understand and mitigate the risk of anthropogenic threats to large whales.
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Swinnen, Wannes, Wouter Hoogkamer, Tijs Delabastita, Jeroen Aeles, Friedl De Groote, and Benedicte Vanwanseele. "Effect of habitual foot-strike pattern on the gastrocnemius medialis muscle-tendon interaction and muscle force production during running." Journal of Applied Physiology 126, no. 3 (March 1, 2019): 708–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00768.2018.
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The interaction between gastrocnemius medialis (GM) muscle and Achilles tendon, i.e., muscle-tendon unit (MTU) interaction, plays an important role in minimizing the metabolic cost of running. Foot-strike pattern (FSP) has been suggested to alter MTU interaction and subsequently the metabolic cost of running. However, metabolic data from experimental studies on FSP are inconsistent, and a comparison of MTU interaction between FSP is still lacking. We, therefore, investigated the effect of habitual rearfoot and mid-/forefoot striking on MTU interaction, ankle joint work, and plantar flexor muscle force production while running at 10 and 14 km/h. GM muscle fascicles of 9 rearfoot and 10 mid-/forefoot strikers were tracked using dynamic ultrasonography during treadmill running. We collected kinetic and kinematic data and used musculoskeletal models to determine joint angles and calculate MTU lengths. In addition, we used dynamic optimization to assess plantar flexor muscle forces. During ground contact, GM fascicle shortening ( P = 0.02) and average contraction velocity ( P = 0.01) were 40–45% greater in rearfoot strikers than mid-/forefoot strikers. Differences in contraction velocity were especially prominent during early ground contact. Moreover, GM ( P = 0.02) muscle force was greater during early ground contact in mid-/forefoot strikers than rearfoot strikers. Interestingly, we did not find differences in stretch or recoil of the series elastic element between FSP. Our results suggest that, for the GM, the reduced muscle energy cost associated with lower fascicle contraction velocity in mid-/forefoot strikers may be counteracted by greater muscle forces during early ground contact. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Kinetic and kinematic differences between foot-strike patterns during running imply (not previously reported) altered muscle-tendon interaction. Here, we studied muscle-tendon interaction using ultrasonography. We found greater fascicle contraction velocities and lower muscle forces in rearfoot compared with mid-/forefoot strikers. Our results suggest that the higher metabolic energy demand due to greater fascicle contraction velocities might offset the lower metabolic energy demand due to lower muscle forces in rearfoot compared with mid-/forefoot strikers.
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Myers, Matt. "Racialized Obsolescence: Multinational Corporations, Labor Conflict, and the Closure of the Imperial Typewriter Company in Britain, 1974–1975." International Labor and Working-Class History 102 (2022): 23–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547922000199.
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AbstractThis article will explore one of the most significant strikes by migrant workers in Britain during the 1970s and the subsequent company closure the year after their victory. In May 1974, a predominantly South Asian workforce at the Imperial Typewriter Company in Leicester went on strike over unequal bonus payments and discrimination in promotion. The shop stewards committee and Transport & General Workers Union branch refused their support and the workforce split partly on racial lines. The strikers stayed on strike for almost 14 weeks until they emerged victorious. Though it appears as a central reference point in histories of migrant experience in Britain, the strike and closure has garnered little systematic, primary research. This article will fill this gap through the use of published sources and extensive unused archival deposits. During the strike part of the largely South Asian workforce sought to break with the racialized division of the workforce between different groups, skill levels, and work-types. Almost immediately after the strike ended in victory the company announced its intention to close down the vast majority of its British production. In Hull 1400 jobs were lost and in Leicester over 1600 were to go. This article shows that whilst the strike might have been the start of a politically, culturally, and intellectually significant period of significant protagonism by Britain's first-generation black and racialized working class, it also marked the beginning of the end of an industrial model dependent on the hyper-exploitation and racialized subordination of their labor. The closure was framed by contemporaries and subsequent historical accounts as a dispute marked more by the end of empire than worker obsolescence. As an article in the Guardian on the closure of the plants was put it in January 1975, it was ‘The day that Imperial&s empire fell'. Yet it might be more accurate to understand the strike as an early premonition of the globalisation of manufacturing production which was to emerge strongly in the 1980s and 1990s. The experience of Imperial Typewriters highlights the central importance of racialized labour hierarchies and immigrant counter-militancy in post-war Britain. The Imperial Typewriter Company provides a case study of how worker resistance to labour intensive modes of capital accumulation, in relatively low capital intensive industries, during a global crisis of capitalist profitability, was followed by the decision of a multinational corporation to immediately transfer its production overseas. The closure of Imperial Typewriters therefore offers a means to reconceptualize how we understand the 1970s as a period of interlocking crises, as well as the major shift of power from labour to multinational capital which emerged in its wake. The findings of this article indicate that British workers were significantly disempowered before the electoral victory of Margaret Thatcher in 1979. Recentering labor conflict in the history of technological obsolescence can offer alternative perspectives on why the British left and trade unions were unable to resist the rise of neoliberalism.
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Munger, Frank. "Legal Resources of Striking Miners: Notes for a Study of Class Conflict and Law." Social Science History 15, no. 1 (1991): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014555320002099x.
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Union miners stand together,Heed no operator’s tale.Keep your hands upon the dollar,And your eyes upon the scale.—verse from “Miner’s Lifeguard” [Silverman 1975: 389]In 1895, Fayette County, West Virginia, a leading coal county in the southern West Virginia coal fields, experienced widespread strikes by miners. The strikes were remarkable because, in an American industry known for violent labor relations and intensive union organizing since the appearance of the Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania before 1880, this was the first major strike in southern West Virginia. We might attempt to understand the role of law and public authority in these strikes in terms of legal repression by means of the labor injunction, labor conspiracy laws, and strikebreaking by the police and military. But none of these occurred in Fayette in 1895, though the later history of labor conflict in West Virginia is replete with all of them. In another way, however, the legal events accompanying these strikes are far more remarkable and challenge us to examine more subtle connections between class conflict and law.
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Bikkina, Siva Chakra Avinash, and P. V. Y. Jayasree. "Analysis of Electromagnetic Reflection Loss for Mesh Structure with A16061 MMC for Aerospace Applications." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 1206, no. 1 (November 1, 2021): 012021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/1206/1/012021.
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Abstract One of the major problems facing by the aircraft was a lightning strike. To overcome this problem, fiber-reinforced materials have been used. The fiber-reinforced materials have less conductivity. These fiber-reinforced materials can’t eliminate the lightning strike effect. For that purpose, the metal matrix composite materials significantly impacted the aircraft’s internal circuits and physical components from the lightning strike effect. To meet industries dynamic and ever-increasing demands, Al6061 metal matrix composite reinforced with fly ash must be utilized to build the aircraft to offer HIRF. The material thickness should be kept low as possible then it can be used to cover the plane’s surface. To prevent lightning strikes, it might be used to protect electronic components from a concentrated high-intensity radiated field, primarily in Aeroplan configuration. The electromagnetic characteristics of composites are measured using the X-band for normal incidence. The electromagnetic reflection properties of AL6061 reinforced with fly ash are studied in this study for mesh structure. Mat lab Software was used to calculate the maximum reflection loss of 33.88dB for 15% fly ash and 85 percent AL6061 at X-band.
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Pearlman, Wendy. "Syrian Views on Obama's Red Line: The Ethical Case for Strikes against Assad." Ethics & International Affairs 34, no. 2 (2020): 189–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0892679420000234.
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AbstractMuch ink has been spilled on the pros and cons of U.S. president Barack Obama's decision not to strike the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad after that regime launched a deadly chemical weapons attack in 2013. Often missing from those debates, however, are the perspectives of Syrians themselves. While not all Syrians oppose Assad, and not all opponents endorsed intervention, many Syrian oppositionists resolutely called for Obama to uphold his “red line” militarily. As part of the roundtable “The Ethics of Limited Strikes,” this essay analyzes diverse expressions of such opinion and finds that they highlight three dimensions of the ethical case for limited strikes against Assad. First, they remind us that the ethical context of the red line question was many Syrians’ sense of abandonment by the international community. Second, they emphasize the ethical stakes of the limited strikes; namely an opportunity to hold the Syrian regime accountable, weaken it from within, and thus change the equation of the war. Third, they make sense of the ethical consequences of the nonintervention outcome, and especially its effect in deepening civilians’ despair, accelerating extremism, and convincing Assad and his allies that they could kill with impunity. These views controvert both legalistic arguments precluding military intervention and assumptions that U.S. intervention is always imperialist and warmongering. In this case, consideration of the case for military intervention from the viewpoint of those on whose behalf the intervention would have taken place challenges us to think deeply about circumstances in which limited strikes might be not only ethically justified but also imperative.
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Bite, Kitija. "Regulatory framework of strike and its problem in Latvia." SHS Web of Conferences 68 (2019): 01020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20196801020.
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International legal provisions provide for human rights and freedoms, and the freedom of expression and the right to work belong to these. Considering that during any employment relationship disputes can arise between the involved parties, international legal provisions state that a strike as the final means for the settlement of a dispute can be used. Paragraph 108 of the Satversme (the Constitution of Latvia) provides that in Latvia, employed people have the right to strike. Systematically, the provisions of the Constitution are being regulated by the Labour Dispute Law and the Strike Law. It might seem that in Latvia, any employed person has been entitled to the right to strike as provided by the Satversme. However, the strike of general practitioners in summer 2017 highlighted the problem of executing strikes. Firstly, at the time being, the right to strike can only be associated with one form of employment, i.e., employment relationship. As only a part of general practitioners is employed on the basis of an employment agreement, the strike regulatory framework that is in force in Latvia can be used only by a part of general practitioners employed under an employment agreement in order to protect their collective interests. Secondly, the Labour Dispute Law provides for that a strike as the final means can be used exclusively for the protection of collective interests (within the framework of concluding a collective agreement), but not within the framework of a contract governed by public law. The strike by general practitioners showed that Latvia has complied only partially with international legal provisions because a strike can only be used by people employed under employment agreements and only in disagreements regarding a Collective agreement. In order to resolve this problem so that any employed person is entitled to the right to strike in the future, it is necessary to amend the Labour Dispute Law by expanding the range of labour dispute subjects. The aim: to analyse international and Latvia's regulatory framework for the right of employed people to strike and recommend necessary amendments to laws to solve detected problems. Materials used: international legal provisions and Latvian legal acts, publications and literature. Methods used in this article: descriptive, analysis, synthesis, dogmatic, induction and deduction as well as legal interpretation methods – grammatical, systemic, historical and teleological.
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DeMay, Timothy. "Constraint against Constraint: Hunger Strikes and the Score." Comparative Literature 76, no. 1 (March 1, 2024): 44–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10897107.
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Abstract In 1961, the poet Jacques Roubaud was dismissed by the French military in Algeria after undergoing a series of “clandestine hunger strikes,” an act he later referred to as his “very first constraint.” By using a term that at once refers to a particular and increasingly prevalent resistance act, the rules and procedures used by post–World War II avant-garde artists and writers, and oppressive structures like prisons that delimit lives, “constraint” provides a way to rethink the history of avant-garde procedural poetry through the act of the hunger strike. This essay analyzes the constraint as a “score,” a method of making that allows for the repeatability and transformation of forms across contexts. This repetition with a difference is underscored by a cast of 1960s and 1970s writers from France, the United States, and Morocco, including Roubaud, Norman H. Pritchard, Bernadette Mayer, Saïda Menebhi, and Abdallah Zrika. Foregrounding the hunger strike and seeing an aesthetics that accords with this provocative and popular act, this essay makes a case for avant-garde practice, rather than the avant-garde object, as acts that might not only reorganize everyday life into weapons and tools, but also thread trans-national possibilities of solidarity through a shared political form.
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Meyburg, Bernd-Ulrich, Tadeusz Mizera, Christiane Meyburg, and Michael Mcgrady. "Collision between a migrating lesser spotted eagle (Clanga pomarina) and an aircraft as detailed by fine-scale GSM-GPS telemetry data." Slovak Raptor Journal 12, no. 1 (December 1, 2018): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/srj-2018-0001.
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Abstract We tracked a breeding adult female lesser spotted eagle (Clanga pomarina) from Germany using GPS technology, and provide details of her collision with a small aircraft at Rzeszów (SE Poland) during April 2016, when she was migrating towards her breeding territory. The ultimate fate of the bird was not established until the tag was found by chance and the data were recovered. Bird strikes are a global problem with sometimes lethal consequences for animals and people. This account highlights the way technology allows us to closely monitor events during bird migration, and document human-raptor interactions. The collision illustrates how food availability might affect bird-strike risk, and indicates that removing animal carcasses from the vicinity of airports could reduce that risk. We discuss the data in relation to risks faced by lesser spotted eagles (and other soaring birds) of collision with aircraft, especially along flyways during migration seasons.
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Weaver, Janet K. "The Road Not Taken: Pearl McGill and the Promise of Inclusive Unionism, 1894–1914." Labor 19, no. 2 (May 1, 2022): 15–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15476715-9576779.
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Abstract Pearl McGill's path from an officer in a union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) offers an alternative lens through which to view industrial unionism at the critical juncture of the legendary “Bread and Roses” strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Her role in the strikes of button workers in Iowa and textile workers in New England between 1911 and 1913 shines a light on the ways in which grassroots activists invested hope that AFL “federal labor unions” (local unions directly affiliated with the national AFL) might serve as a vehicle for their inclusive union aspirations. Her contribution enhances our understanding of the strategies of the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) and the contested terrain of ethnicity and gender on which its leaders sought to organize women factory workers, constrained as they were by their loyalty to the AFL.
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Talmadge, Caitlin. "Closing Time: Assessing the Iranian Threat to the Strait of Hormuz." International Security 33, no. 1 (July 2008): 82–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/isec.2008.33.1.82.
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How might Iran retaliate in the aftermath of a limited Israeli or U.S. strike? The most economically devastating of Iran's potential responses would be closure of the Strait of Hormuz. According to open-source order of battle data, as well as relevant analogies from military history and GIS maps, Iran does possess significant littoral warfare capabilities, including mines, antiship cruise missiles, and land-based air defense. If Iran were able to properly link these capabilities, it could halt or impede traffic in the Strait of Hormuz for a month or more. U.S. attempts to reopen the waterway likely would escalate rapidly into sustained, large-scale air and naval operations during which Iran could impose significant economic and military costs on the United States—even if Iranian operations were not successful in truly closing the strait. The aftermath of limited strikes on Iran would be complicated and costly, suggesting needed changes in U.S. force posture and energy policy.
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Turchyn, Jaryna. "Climate strike as an instrument of public influence on global climate change issues." Bulletin of Mariupol State University. Series: History. Political Studies 10, no. 27 (2020): 162–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-2830-2020-10-27-162-171.
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The article considers peculiarities of climate strike as a new instrument that might stop climate change as a biggest challenge of the present. The author outlines main reasons that prompted Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg to initiate school strikes for the climate. It is explained about environmental activism as a movement of representatives of various groups of individuals and organizations that work in collaboration in social, scientific, political and conservational fields with the main purpose of addressing environmental concerns. It has been analyzed an origin, goals, methods and tools of the climate strike activities of 350.org as an international environmental organization addressing the climate crisis. Special attention is paid to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking as a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock. Based on US fundamental research, the author underlines dangers and risks of fracking due to earth tremor concerns as well as possibility of escaping of potentially carcinogenic chemicals during drilling and contaminating groundwater around the fracking site. Besides of FridaysforFuture and 350.org movements addressed climate crisis author describes the history, main goals, vision and strategy of the Extinction Rebellion movement. It is emphasized that Extinction Rebellion created with the aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse. It is underlined that activists often violate public order; most of them during protests accept arrest and imprisonment. It has been mentioned that 2019 was the year of climate change and because of coronavirus disease global climate strike nowadays moved online. The author draws conclusion, pointing that acknowledge the reality of climate change, cooperation of all stakeholders and far-sighted leadership are among the fundamentally important steps that must be taken to achieve the goals and consolidate countries around the global climate change problem.
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Chapman, Bruce. "The Accord: Background Changes and Aggregate Outcomes." Journal of Industrial Relations 40, no. 4 (December 1998): 624–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002218569804000407.
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Over the last several decades tbe role of incomes policy has been a critical issue in an understanding of Australian workplace and macroeconomic relationships. A significant institutional reform was the Prices and Incomes Accord, which began with the election of the Labor government in 1983, and ended with the change of govern ment in 1996. What follows is a discussion of the circumstances that led to the adoption of the Accord, and an analysis of some of its consequences for strikes and wages. Several themes are explored. One is that the success of incomes policies depends on economic, political and industrial relations factors. A second is that the origin and maintenance of the Accord depended on the Labor government's commitment to wage restraint, which had its intellectual underpinnings in corporatism. The Accord changed over thirteen years, and the industrial system became more directed to enterprise bargaining. While this might imply that it became increasingly difficult to have low strike and wage outcomes, the changes in industrial and economic relationships seem to be permanent. Conjectures are offered to explain this outcome.
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(†), Robert Blust. "Tylor Strikes Back." Anthropos 118, no. 1 (2023): 175–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2023-1-175.
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The notion of a “survival” in culture, first proposed by E. B. Tylor in 1871, was used extensively for perhaps three decades, and then fell into disfavor, and came to be regarded by many anthropologists as unworthy of further consideration. Yet the concept of a survival is logically coherent and is strongly supported in sister disciplines such as linguistics. This paper maintains that – despite whatever excesses may have given it a bad name – the concept of a survival has a legitimate place in cultural anthropology. Beyond that, I maintain that Tylor missed what is surely the most dramatic example of a cultural survival that he might have used to make his case, namely the idea of the dragon, which has baffled anthropologists, folklorists, and others for generations, but which emerges from basic application of scientific method, as a survival of the rainbow serpent in post-animist societies. [Tylor’s legacy, concept of survival, comparative method, rainbow, serpent, dragon]
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Bamrah, JS, Indranil Chakravorty, and Kamal Mahawar. "The Ethics of Industrial Action by Doctors." Sushruta Journal of Health Policy & Opinion 15, no. 2 (March 11, 2023): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.38192/15.2.6.
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The traditional and majoritarian view of medicine as a vocation rather than a job remains the basic principle that motivates doctors. Nevertheless, over the last two decades, there has been an erosion of their authority and an inability to fulfil the best care they can provide with successive cuts to the NHS and a relative salary reduction. That festering discontentment likely spurred many doctors to seek a route to express their feelings by taking IA. Nevertheless, for many, the ethical turmoil of potentially causing harm to patients from withdrawing services cannot be overemphasised. The conflict between professional duty and personal gain is at its acutest at such times.
It remains to be seen how this will be reflected in campaign turnouts and on the picket line. Ultimately, full-blown strike action is neither in doctors' nor the government's interest. Patients have long memories, especially as many are still reeling from the injustices of the pandemic, albeit doctors and others on the front line were celebrated as heroes. The media has little regard for the legal case of strikes or any ethical basis. They will record events for posterity, ensuring that stories on both sides are personalised and sensationalised. The real casualty in this could be the NHS, which is yet again at the forefront for the wrong reasons. On the other hand, the doctors’ strike actions and those of others in healthcare might, in part, hope that these would wake the public to defend an institution at the highest risk in its 75 years since Aneurin Bevan gave birth to it.
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Tang, Roger Y. W., and Allen Ponak. "Employer Assessment of Strike Costs." Articles 41, no. 3 (April 12, 2005): 552–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/050230ar.
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Cupit, Pauline M., and Charles Cunningham. "What is the mechanism of action of praziquantel and how might resistance strike?" Future Medicinal Chemistry 7, no. 6 (April 2015): 701–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.4155/fmc.15.11.
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White, Peta J., Joseph P. Ferguson, Niamh O’Connor Smith, and Harriet O’Shea Carre. "School strikers enacting politics for climate justice: Daring to think differently about education." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 38, no. 1 (November 15, 2021): 26–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aee.2021.24.
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AbstractTwo school strikers − Niamh and Harriet − come together with two environmental education academics − Peta and Joseph − to explore what it means to be young people enacting politics for the environment in Australia, and what this might mean for re-imagining education. Niamh and Harriet are leaders of, and were integral to initiating, the highly effective School Strike 4 Climate − Australia (SS4C) movement, enacting ‘principled disobedience’. Peta and Joseph work in teacher education, preparing future teachers who will teach students who are increasingly climate savvy and politically active. In coming together and through the lens of pragmatism, we highlight the political nature of what Niamh and Harriet have been undertaking as they negotiate social, cultural, educational and environmental issues implicated in the climate crisis. Collaborative autoethnography framed our exploration of motivations for action, politics and education within our communities. Through Niamh’s and Harriet’s experiences, we explore how young people express agency while developing identity. Our autoethnographic conversations highlighted the experience and political agency that many of our young people demonstrate and led to us reflecting on the resulting opportunity for educators to ‘dare to think’ differently about education.
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Clary, Christopher, and Vipin Narang. "India's Counterforce Temptations: Strategic Dilemmas, Doctrine, and Capabilities." International Security 43, no. 3 (February 2019): 7–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00340.
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Is India shifting to a nuclear counterforce strategy? Continued aggression by Pakistan against India, enabled by Islamabad's nuclear strategy and India's inability to counter it, has prompted the leadership in Delhi to explore more flexible preemptive counterforce options in an attempt to reestablish deterrence. Increasingly, Indian officials are advancing the logic of counterforce targeting, and they have begun to lay out exceptions to India's long-standing no-first-use policy to potentially allow for the preemptive use of nuclear weapons. Simultaneously, India has been acquiring the components that its military would need to launch counterforce strikes. These include a growing number of accurate and responsive nuclear delivery systems, an array of surveillance platforms, and sophisticated missile defenses. Executing a counterforce strike against Pakistan, however, would be exceptionally difficult. Moreover, Pakistan's response to the mere fear that India might be pursuing a counterforce option could generate a dangerous regional arms race and crisis instability. A cycle of escalation would have significant implications not only for South Asia, but also for the broader nuclear landscape if other regional powers were similarly seduced by the temptations of nuclear counterforce.
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Bite, Kitija. "Konstitucionālās tiesības uz streiku: ģimenes ārstu streika gadījums." SOCRATES. Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes Juridiskās fakultātes elektroniskais juridisko zinātnisko rakstu žurnāls / SOCRATES. Rīga Stradiņš University Faculty of Law Electronic Scientific Journal of Law 2, no. 14 (2019): 35–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.25143/socr.14.2019.2.035-046.
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Starptautiskajās tiesību normās ir iekļautas cilvēka brīvības un tiesības. Tās ietver vārda brīvību, tiesības uz darbu, tiesības apvienoties un tiesības uz streiku, ja darba tiesisko attiecību laikā pusēm rodas strīdi, u. c. tiesības. Latvijas Republikas Satversmes (turpmāk – Satversme) 108. pantā paredzētas strādājošo tiesības uz streiku kā galējo līdzekli darba strīdu risināšanai. Sistēmiski šī konstitūcijas norma tiek regulēta ar Darba strīdu likumu un Streiku likumu. Varētu šķist, ka Latvijā katram strādājošajam ir nodrošinātas tiesības streikot, kā tas paredzēts Satversmē. Tomēr ģimenes ārstu streiks 2017. gadā parādīja, ka streiku īstenošanā ir problēmas. Pirmkārt, tiesības streikot pašlaik ir attiecināmas tikai uz vienu nodarbinātības veidu – darba tiesiskajām attiecībām. Taču tikai daļai ģimenes ārstu nodarbinātības attiecības balstītas uz darba līguma pamata, tādējādi piemērot valstī spēkā esošo streiku regulējumu savu kolektīvo interešu aizsardzībai var tikai daļa ģimenes ārstu. Otrkārt, Darba strīdu likums streiku kā galējo līdzekli ļauj piemērot tikai kolektīvo interešu aizsardzībai (koplīguma noslēgšanas ietvaros), bet ne publisko tiesību līguma ietvaros. Ģimenes ārstu streiks parādīja, ka Latvijā tikai daļēji izpildītas starptautiskās normas, jo tiesības streikot ir paredzētas, bet šī norma attiecināma tikai uz tām personām, kuras nodarbinātas uz darba līguma pamata un tikai koplīguma domstarpību gadījumos. Lai risinātu situāciju un turpmāk nodrošinātu katras nodarbinātās personas tiesības streikot, nepieciešams grozīt Darba strīdu likumu, paplašinot darba strīdu subjektu loku. International legal provisions provide for human rights and freedoms, and the freedom of expression and the right to work are part of these. Considering that during any employment relationship disputes can arise between the involved parties, international legal provisions for that provide strike as the final means to be utilised for the settlement of a dispute. Paragraph 108 of the Satversme (the Constitution of Latvia) provides that in Latvia, employed people have the right to strike. Systematically, the provisions of the Constitution are being regulated by the Labour Dispute Law and the Strike Law. It might seem that in Latvia, any employed person has been entitled to the right to strike as provided by the Satversme. However, the strike of general practitioners in summer 2017 highlighted a problem of executing strikes. Firstly, at the time being, the right to strike can be only associated with one form of employment, i.e., employment relationship. As only a part of general practitioners is employed on the basis of an employment agreement, the strike regulatory framework that is in force in Latvia can be used only by a part of general practitioners employed under an employment agreement in order to protect their collective interests. Secondly, the Labour Dispute Law provides for that a strike as the final means can be utilised exclusively for the protection of collective interests (within the framework of concluding a collective agreement), but not within the framework of a contract governed by the public law. The strike by general practitioners showed that Latvia has complied only partially with international legal provisions because a strike can only be utilised by people employed under employment agreements and only in disagreements regarding a collective agreement. In order to resolve this problem and so that any employed person is entitled to the right to strike in the future, it is necessary to amend the Labour Dispute Law by expanding the range of labour dispute subjects. The aim of the article is to analyse both international regulatory framework and that in Latvia for the right of employed people to strike and to recommend necessary amendments to laws to solve the detected problems. Materials used for the compilation of the article: international legal provisions and Latvian legal acts, publications and literature. Methods used in this article: descriptive, analysis, synthesis, dogmatic, induction and deduction, graphic as well as legal interpretation methods – grammatical, systemic, historical and teleological.
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Zhang, Yaoyong, and Dan Zhang. "Biomechanical Analysis of Foot–Ankle Complex during Jogging with Rearfoot Strike versus Forefoot Strike." Applied Bionics and Biomechanics 2022 (December 19, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/2664856.
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Background and Aim. In order to reduce foot and ankle injuries induced by jogging, two-foot strike patterns, rearfoot strike (RFS), and forefoot strike (FFS), were adopted and compared. First, RFS jogging and FFS jogging were experimentally studied, so as to acquire kinematic and kinetic data, including foot strike angle, knee flexion angle, and ground reaction force (GRF). Then, a 3D finite element model of foot–ankle complex was reconstructed from the scanned 2D-stacked images. Biomechanical characteristics, including plantar pressure, stress of metatarsals, midfoot bone, calcaneus and cartilage, and tensile force of plantar fascia and ligaments, were obtained. The results showed that RFS jogging and FFS jogging had a similar change trend and a close peak value of GRF. Since possessing more momentum in the push stage and less momentum in the brake stage, FFS jogging could be in favor of a higher jogging speed. However, FFS jogging produced larger metatarsal stress in the 5th metatarsal and much larger tensile force of plantar fascia, which might cause metatarsal fracture and heel pain. While RFS jogging produced larger plantar pressure in the hindfoot area, larger calcaneus stress, and much larger tarsal navicular stress, which might cause heel tissue injury, calcaneus damage, and stress fracture of naviculocuneiform joint. In addition, talocrural and talocalcaneal joint cartilage could bear jogging loads, as the peak contact pressure were both small in RFS jogging and FFS jogging. Therefore, jogging with rearfoot or FFS pattern should be chosen according to the health condition of foot–ankle parts.
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Schmidt, Rudi. "Der gescheiterte Streik in der ostdeutschen Metallindustrie." PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 33, no. 132 (September 1, 2003): 493–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v33i132.663.
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The attempt of the metal workers union to adjust the higher East German weekly working hours to the lower West German level of 35 h has failed, The mighty union first after World War II broke off a strike without any result, The unsuccessful strike reinforces the deep conflict between two factions, because the one, the so-called ,Traditionalists' pushed the strike, whereas the other, the ,Modernizers' warned to dare it. The struggle of both factions is about the right way how to rise to the challenges of liberalized market economy and globalization. It paralyzed the union for weeks and it can be supposed that the now reveiled weakness can hamper seriously the former power to define sector wide collective bargaining agreements.
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Barton, Geoff. "How schools can respond to climate change strikes." SecEd 2019, no. 13 (July 1, 2019): 14–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/sece.2019.13.14.
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Music, Kasim. "The Undesirable Consequences of Doping Regulations: Why Stricter Efforts Might Strengthen Doping Incentives." Journal of Sports Economics 21, no. 3 (November 10, 2019): 281–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527002519885425.
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We analyze the impact of doping regulations on the doping decisions of athletes in a Tullock contest. We show that stricter anti-doping regulations may increase the profits of doped athletes, which makes doping more sustainable in the long run. Under certain conditions, a naturally more able athlete may receive a lower payoff than his naturally less able competitor, reversing the natural payoff order. We consider the case of different anti-doping agencies and show that harmonization of doping regulations may increase the doping intensity. We point out incentive problems that may arise in the case of strategic interaction between anti-doping agencies.
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Ahmed, Ashfaq, Usman ,. Qais, Muhammad Dawood ,. Kakar, and Atta Muhammad. "China’s Economic Growth: Threats and Challenges to Chinese Economy and Energy Security." WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS 17 (July 4, 2022): 187–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.37394/232016.2022.17.19.
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Despite global pandemic Chinese economic growth rate was 2.3 percent in 2020. GDP surpassed US $ 15 trillion and growth rate raised to 6.5 percent in fourth quarter of 2020 and US $ 17 trillion GDP was recorded in first quarter of 2021. People Republic China’s (PRC) gigantic military budget and revolution in military affairs (RMA) creates senese of hegemonic ambitions in its neighbours. Contrarily, United States (US) sights PRC has ambitions to expand its political influence, gain access to economic markets, change international order by replacing US. This potential asymmetrical and imbalanced relationship locks America in typical Thucydides trap. Washington reached conclusion that economic growth and military might are intertwined. However, it is dependent on China’s energy supplies. PRC’s rise can be slowed down by stopping or interrupting the flow of energy supplies. Range of threats are posed to PRC oil imports i.e. US aerial strike on PRC oil//gas pipelines, use of proxies specially ast Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) to disrupt oil supplies, terrorist attacks on oil containers on land and naval blockade in Persian Gulf. The inference drawn is energy security dependent on Strait of Malacca is Achilles Heel of China. This paper aims at probing Washington’s capacity to disrupt or stop energy supplies to PRC in Malacca strait, Persian Gulf, land routes in Pakistan. It discusses various strategies including direct naval blockade, use of proxies and direct military strikes.
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Murray, Lauralee, C. Beaven, and Kim Hébert-Losier. "Reliability of Overground Running Measures from 2D Video Analyses in a Field Environment." Sports 7, no. 1 (December 30, 2018): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports7010008.
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Two-dimensional running analyses are common in research and practice, and have been shown to be reliable when conducted on a treadmill. However, running is typically performed outdoors. Our aim was to determine the intra- and inter-rater reliability of two-dimensional analyses of overground running in an outdoor environment. Two raters independently evaluated 155 high-speed videos (240 Hz) of overground running from recreationally competitive runners on two occasions, seven days apart (test-retest study design). The reliability of foot-strike pattern (rear-foot, mid-foot, and fore-foot), foot-strike angle (°), and running speed (m/s) was assessed using weighted kappa (κ), percentage agreement, intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), typical error (TE), and coefficient of variation (CV) statistics. Foot-strike pattern (agreement = 99.4%, κ = 0.96) and running speed (ICC = 0.98, TE = 0.09 m/s, CV = 2.1%) demonstrated excellent relative and absolute reliability. Foot-strike angle exhibited high relative reliability (ICC = 0.88), but suboptimal absolute reliability (TE = 2.5°, CV = 17.6%). Two-dimensional analyses of overground running outdoors were reliable for quantifying foot-strike pattern, foot-strike angle, and running speed, although foot-strike angle errors of 2.5° were typical. Foot-strike angle changes of less than 2.5° should be interpreted with caution in clinical settings, as they might simply reflect measurement errors.
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Gallagher, Mark, and Michael Cevallos. "Nuclear warfare beyond counterforce." Journal of Military Studies 10, no. 1 (October 9, 2021): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jms-2021-0012.
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Abstract A counterforce attack intends to disable an opponent's nuclear arsenal to limit potential damage from that adversary. We postulate a future when hardening and deeply burying fixed sites, transition to mobile strategic systems, and improved defences make executing a counterforce strategy against an adversary's nuclear forces extremely difficult. Additionally, our postulated future has multiple nations possessing nuclear weapons. Consequently, each country needs to consider multiple actors when addressing the question of how to deter a potential adversary's nuclear attack. We examine six nuclear targeting alternatives and consider how to deter them. These strategies include nuclear demonstration, conventional military targets, and attacks consisting of communications/electronics, economic, infrastructure, and population centers that a nation might consider striking with nuclear weapons. Since these alternative strikes require only a few nuclear weapons, executing one of them would not significantly shift the balance of nuclear forces. The attacking country's remaining nuclear forces may inhibit the attacked country or its allies from responding. How can nations deter these limited nuclear attacks? Potentially, threatening economic counter-strikes seems to be the best alternative. How might escalation be controlled in the event of a limited attack? Other instruments of power, such as political or economic, might be employed to bolster deterrence against these types of nuclear strikes.
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Lefevre, M., P. Souloumiac, N. Cubas, and Y. Klinger. "Experimental evidence for crustal control over seismic fault segmentation." Geology 48, no. 8 (May 18, 2020): 844–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g47115.1.
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Abstract Strike-slip faults are generally described as continuous structures, while they are actually formed of successive segments separated by geometrical complexities. Although this along-strike segmentation is known to affect the overall dynamics of earthquakes, the physical processes governing the scale of this segmentation remain unclear. Here, we use analogue models to investigate the structural development of strike-slip faults and the physical parameters controlling segmentation. We show that the length of fault segments is regular along strike and scales linearly with the thickness of the brittle material. Variations of the rheological properties only have minor effects on the scaling relationship. Ratios between the segment length and the brittle material thickness are similar for coseismic ruptures and sandbox experiments. This supports a model where crustal seismogenic thickness controls fault geometry. Finally, we show that the geometrical complexity acquired during strike-slip fault formation withstands cumulative displacement. Thus, the inherited complexity impedes the formation of an ever-straighter fault, and might control the length of earthquake ruptures.
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Chen, Peng, Bing Yan, and Yuan Liu. "Active Strike-Slip Faulting and Systematic Deflection of Drainage Systems along the Altyn Tagh Fault, Northern Tibetan Plateau." Remote Sensing 13, no. 16 (August 6, 2021): 3109. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13163109.
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Systematic deflection of drainage systems along strike-slip faults is the combination of repeated faulting slipping and continuous headward erosion accumulated on the stream channels. The measurement and analysis of systematically deflected stream channels will enhance our understanding on the deformational behaviors of strike-slip faults and the relationship between topographic response and active strike-slip faulting. In this study, detailed interpretation and analysis of remote sensing images and DEM data were carried out along the Altyn Tagh Fault, one typical large-scale strike-slip fault in the northern Tibetan Plateau, and together with the statistical results of offset amounts of 153 stream channels, revealed that (i) the drainage systems have been systematically deflected and/or offset in sinistral along the active Altyn Tagh Fault; (ii) The offset amounts recorded by stream channels vary in the range of 7 m to 72 km, and indicate a positively related linear relationship between the upstream length L and the offset amount D, the channel with bedrock upstream generally has a better correlation between L and D than that of non-bedrock upstream; (iii) River capture and abandonment are commonly developed along the Altyn Tagh Fault, which probably disturbed the continuous accumulation of offset recorded on individual stream channel, suggesting that the real maximum cumulative displacement recorded by stream channels might be larger than 72 km (lower bound) along the Altyn Tagh Fault. Along with the cumulative displacements recorded by other regional-scale strike-slip faults in the Tibetan Plateau, these results demonstrate that the magnitude of tectonic extrusion along these first-order strike-slip faults after the collision of India–Asia plates might be limited.
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Watanabe, Satoru, Yoshiki Ishida, Daisuke Miura, Taira Miyasaka, and Akikazu Shinya. "Development of a Weight-Drop Impact Testing Method for Dental Applications." Polymers 12, no. 12 (November 26, 2020): 2803. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym12122803.
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For evaluating the impact strength of dental materials, the Izod test or Charpy test has been used, but specimen preparation for these tests is difficult due to the adjustment of a notch on them. By contrast, a weight-drop impact test does not require notched specimens. Therefore, it might be possible to measure the impact strength more accurately than conventional methods. This study aimed to establish appropriate conditions for applying the weight-drop impact test on small specimens of acrylic resin. To determine the most reliable impact fracture energy of acrylic resins, different diameters and thicknesses of PMMA resin specimens, diameters and weights of the striker, and diameters of the supporting jig were compared. For all specimen thicknesses, when the striker diameter was 6–10 mm, the impact fracture energy was constant when the inner diameter of the specimen-supporting jig was 8–10 mm. In addition, the measured E50% value was mostly equal to the median value of the impact fracture energy. Thus, for the weight-drop impact test, this method was effective for material testing of small specimens, by clearly specifying the test conditions, such as the thickness of disc-shaped specimens, the diameter of the striker, and the inner diameter of the specimen-supporting jig.
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Zhao, Yawen, Guanghui Wu, Yintao Zhang, Nicola Scarselli, Wei Yan, Chong Sun, and Jianfa Han. "The Strike-Slip Fault Effects on Tight Ordovician Reef-Shoal Reservoirs in the Central Tarim Basin (NW China)." Energies 16, no. 6 (March 9, 2023): 2575. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16062575.
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The largest carbonate condensate field in China has been found in the central Tarim Basin. Ordovician carbonate reservoirs are generally attributed to reef-shoal microfacies along a platform margin. However, recent production success has been achieved along the NE-trending strike-slip fault zones that intersect at the platform margin. For this contribution, we analyzed the strike-slip fault effects on the reef-shoal reservoirs by using new geological, geophysical, and production data. Seismic data shows that some NE-trending strike-slip faults intersected the NW-trending platform margin in multiple segments. The research indicated that the development of strike-slip faults has affected prepositional landforms and the subsequent segmentation of varied microfacies along the platform margin. In addition, the strike-slip fault compartmentalized the reef-shoal reservoirs into multiple segments along the extent of the platform margin. We show that fractured reef-shoal complexes are favorable for the development of dissolution porosity along strike-slip fault damage zones. In the tight matrix reservoirs (porosity < 6%, permeability < 0.5 mD), the porosity and permeability could be increased by more than 2–5 times and to 1–2 orders of magnitude in the fault damage zone, respectively. This suggests that high production wells are correlated with “sweet spots” of fractured reservoirs along the strike-slip fault damage zones, and that the fractured reservoirs in the proximity of strike-slip fault activity might be a major target for commercial exploitation of the deep Ordovician tight carbonates.
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Magaziner, Daniel, and Sean Jacobs. "Notes from Marikana, South Africa: The Platinum Miners’ Strike, the Massacre, and the Struggle for Equivalence." International Labor and Working-Class History 83 (2013): 137–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547913000112.
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AbstractThis note reflects on the August 2012 miners' strike at Marikana, South Africa in light of a century long history of violence associated with worker actions in that country and elsewhere in the Global South. It suggests that the breakaway union's allegedly ‘illegal’ strike fits within a long tradition of radical worker activism in South Africa, which is best understood in light of anticolonial efforts to short-circuit the chronologies of imperial power. The Marikana strike, like anticolonial rebellions during the early twentieth century and, critically, white worker struggles following First World War, was an effort to speed up the process by which the value of workers’ lives and labor might be made equivalent to those in power.
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Harris, Laura. "Outtakes of ’68." South Atlantic Quarterly 119, no. 3 (July 1, 2020): 461–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8601338.
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If ’68 marks the emergence of seemingly new kinds of radical practices pursued by new revolutionary subjects, this essay asks how we might understand a strike undertaken by Appalachian coal miners in the early 1970s and its documentation in the film Harlan County, USA. Is this strike best understood apart from ’68, as a disconnected, outmoded activity pursued by retrograde subjects who, after ’68, can only be represented by and for nostalgic or reactionary political projects? In the strike’s abandonment of political and auterist representation, in the commitment not to any one endpoint but to the ongoing, performative reorganization of social life that the strike and its documentation come to entail, and finally, in the tenuous but still open connections between this strike and other radical practices in and beyond Appalachia, in and beyond ’68, this essay discerns another model for insurgency and for a history without subjects.
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Xu, Hongyuan, Haigang Lao, Chao Peng, Hao Xu, Chuncheng Liu, Wei Sun, Yongtao Ju, and Guiyu Dong. "Reacquainting the Structural Characteristics of Pull-Apart Basins Based on Simulations with Wet Clay." Sustainability 15, no. 19 (September 25, 2023): 14143. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su151914143.
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A pull-apart basin (PAB) is a releasing zone constrained by strike–slip faults. A PAB partly appears as a unique basin type typically dominated by the basin sidewall and cross-basin faults. However, the structural characteristics of different subsidiary faults derived from strike–slip motions are currently poorly understood in PABs. Under the control of different bend strike–slip faults, this study examines the formation and evolution of PABs reconstructed from wet clay with high water content (68%) as the experimental material. It was reported that (1) a PAB shows the single asymmetric half-graben architecture in the profile and rhombus in the plane, regardless of the bend type of the strike–slip fault; (2) the subsidiary fault area density increases with increasing fault displacement in PABs and might be impacted by the nature of the wet clay; (3) as the strike–slip fault displacement increases, the subsidiary fault number initially increases and then begins to decrease with large fault formation; and (4) T-faults are the most numerous faults in PABs, followed by Riedel shear faults. R′- and P-shear faults account for a small proportion and are unstable. The proportion of Riedel shear faults gradually decreases from the underlapping strike–slip faults to the overlapping strike–slip faults, accompanied by an increase in the corresponding R′-shear faults. The primary control factor affecting the proportion of subsidiary faults is the stress component. Re-recognition of subsidiary faults in the PABs is significant for interpreting strike–slip faults and the study of hydrocarbon migration.
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Leung, Eddy S. T., Evita S. Yeung, and S. W. Chan. "Strike a Balance - Repair or Replace?" Advanced Materials Research 133-134 (October 2010): 997–1002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.133-134.997.
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The preservation and conservation of deteriorated historical structures is always a difficult but challenging task. Theoretically, all significant historic structures should be conserved and saved from being removed or discarded. Practically, this ideal may not always be achievable for all decayed components of the historic structures. Sometimes their conditions are too bad to be reasonably repaired to a safe state. On the other hand, replacement is not the only resort for all the damaged relics. There are situations that these relics should better be preserved, though more resources will have to be invested and greater challenge might be encountered in the course of work. This paper attempts to illustrate the deliberation with a case study - the preservation of wooden structures of Chik Kwai Study Hall in Hong Kong, and addresses the considerations in making decision between repair and replacement. Scientific or structural analysis has played a key role in directing our way to the final decision. Methodology used for guiding the whole conservation process will also be discussed.
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Taylor, Dylan. "Riots, Strikes, and Radical Politics in Aotearoa New Zealand." Counterfutures 7 (June 1, 2019): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/cf.v7i0.6375.
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The riot is positioned by some contemporary Left theorists and activists as the harbinger of a future emancipatory politics. This view has emerged in a period of political transition in which traditional modes of Left organisation are routinely dismissed as ineffective. This paper examines the history of the riot in Aotearoa New Zealand, seeking to understand what role, if any, the riot might play in this country’s future.
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Donald Morrill. "Love Might Utter the Only Verse That Wouldn’t Insult the Dying, and: For Robert Strickler." Prairie Schooner 83, no. 3 (2009): 145–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/psg.0.0263.
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Selvaraj, Thirumalini, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Simona Raneri, Manjula Fernando, Kunal Kakria, and Simon Jayasingh. "Response of Organic Lime Mortars to Thermal and Electrical Shocks Due to Lightning Strikes." Sustainability 12, no. 17 (September 2, 2020): 7181. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12177181.
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Lightning strikes are prevalent and inevitable natural phenomena that might cause damages during interaction with building structures and, in some cases, culminate in fires. During the last decades, several lightning strikes have caused considerable damages to cultural and heritage buildings. Furthermore, recent studies indicated a plausible connection between climate changes due to global warming and variations in the frequency and intensity of lightning. The evaluation of the structural efficiency and resilience of cultural buildings to global changes and natural risks appears significant in the light of the current scientific debate. This research aims at the assessment of lightning strikes’ effects on ancient heritage binding materials through the characterization of their thermal and electrical conductivity properties. This study focused on the performance evaluation of green and low-cost mortars based on the use of organic additives. Lime samples were reverse engineered by using a mixture of organics (fig, jaggery, black grape, banana, kadukai), which comprises the most common additives used in traditional Indian mortars. The reliability of the organic mixture in enhancing the resilience of masonry to lightning strikes was analyzed by using electromagnetic field simulation.
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Dohal, Gassim. "Translation of Al-Fuzai’s Story ‘The Strike’." Technium Social Sciences Journal 53 (January 9, 2024): 381–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v53i1.10447.
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Al-Fuzai portrays a dispute between a wife and her husband’s mother in ‘The Strike.’1 Every newlywed couple encounters this issue because a bridegroom typically likes to remain with his parents and is socially encouraged to do so in many Arab communities. As a result, the problem is cultural; translation may help in portraying new cultures. In ‘The Strike,’ Al-Fuzai discusses this social issue while criticizing the social setting a new bride is placed in. An environment that is conducive to everyone in the family exercising their rights and living comfortably and prosperously should be created; however, this is not the case in the story. One of Al-Fuzai's literary works is ‘The Strike.’ It has been translated to introduce the writer to the readers of this journal. It also addresses a social issue that some individuals might not give enough thought to. Moreover, translation is a way to communicate and bridge the gaps among different cultures.
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Khalifa, Nasser K. A. Al-Dosari. "COMPLAINTS WHICH FOREIGN INVESTORS MIGHT BRING AGAINST HOST STATES DUE TO COVID-19 RESPONSE, AND THE DEFENCE HOST STATES MIGHT USE AGAINST THE COMPLAINTS." International Journal of Law and Policy 5, no. 1 (September 23, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.47604/ijlp.1142.
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Purpose: This summative assignment sought to explore the possible complaints that foreign investors might raise against host states, as well as how host states might defend themselves from such complaints.
Methodology: This being a summative assignment, the author relied on review of existing literature, reference to case law and reflective learning, as well as, critical thinking to provide a critical analysis to the question. Fundamentally, the author explored the international investment treaty standards that could be used by foreign investors to raise their complaints, as well as the treaty-specific exceptions that may inform the defences by host states in response to foreign investor claims. The researcher adopted a case study design through a qualitative content analysis technique towards analysis documented information in the form of case laws, existing research literature, constitutional reports, such as international investment arbitration reports and agreement.
Findings: First and foremost, the author found out that foreign investors might complain about the violation of the full protection and security standard. However, states might invoke the doctrine of force majeure to defend against such claims. Also, the author found out that foreign investors might complain about unfair and inequitable treatment insofar as imposing Covid-19 measures are concerned. Nevertheless, host states might rely on the defence of distress to counter any complaints that may be brought about by foreign investors. Finally, the author explored the potential complaints insofar as direct and indirect expropriations are concerned, which hosts states may defend themselves against through the provisions of the defence of necessity as well as the defence of public health.
Unique contribution to theory, policy and practice: The author recommends that host states and foreign investors need to strike a balance between the protection of investments and public interests.
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Bright, Ria, and Chris Eames. "Climate strikes: Their value in engaging and educating secondary school students." Set: Research Information for Teachers, no. 3 (December 20, 2020): 4–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.18296/set.0180.
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The climate strikes of 2019, an extraordinary worldwide phenomenon, swiftly and succinctly showed the world the collective concern of youth. What insights might curriculum planning for climate-change education and classroom pedagogy gain from these climate strikes? Preliminary findings from this study identified four significant considerations in regard to climate-change education. First, the soaring level of climate anxiety among youth. Secondly, political literacy is as important as climate-change literacy for action. Thirdly, social justice is the key to engaging students in climate-change education. Fourthly, an inquiry-based pedagogy that considers the academic (head), emotional (heart), and practical (hands) is appropriate for climate-change education.
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Wang, Qingping, Haifeng Zhao, and Fei Wang. "Numerical and experimental study of bird strike on a turboshaft engine." Vibroengineering PROCEDIA 42 (May 16, 2022): 70–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.21595/vp.2022.22315.
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Two bird models were established with the SPH method to simulate bird impacting on the inner wall of the particle separator and the first-stage blade of the compressor, respectively. Bird ingestion experiments were carried out to validate results of the numerical simulation. The experimental results show great consistency with the numerical simulation. Both the numerical and experimental results show that the bird would rebound in the particle separator and might enter the scavenge passage. Also, after multiple impacts in the particle separator, the bird's speed will decay to about 52 % of the initial speed. It was found in the experiments that the smaller birds were more likely to cause serious damage to the blade of the compressor while the big ones might be jammed by the inlet guide vane.
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Watt, Gary. "Hamlet and Pure Object Revenge – The Matter of Life and Death." Pólemos 18, no. 1 (April 1, 2024): 119–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pol-2024-2005.
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Abstract Why do we strike intrinsically inoffensive objects when they intrude upon our lives? Why, for example, do we kick the car when it breaks down, or slap the chair that pinches our finger against the table, or strike the open door that collides with our head? In this essay, I ask whether this phenomenon, which I call the performance of “pure object revenge”, might arise from an impulse to execute vindicatory, and in that sense vengeful, justice upon the offending object. My new explanation for the phenomenon is that we strike the offending object because it has no life but has briefly acted as if it were alive. It therefore reminds us in the brief moment of its offence that our bodies are also inanimate dust and will return to dust and in the meantime are only briefly animated. In short, my argument is that we strike the object because it is a memento mori. To test and support this, I offer a reading of the “closet scene” at the centre of Shakespeare’s Hamlet to illustrate the performative impulse to banish inanimate objects at the threshold of the living and the dead.