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Journal articles on the topic "Continuum of exploitation"
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Boersma, Martijn, and Justine Nolan. "Modern slavery and the employment relationship: Exploring the continuum of exploitation." Journal of Industrial Relations 64, no. 2 (January 24, 2022): 165–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00221856211069238.
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The term ‘modern slavery’ constitutes a broad non-legal umbrella term that refers to a range of abusive practices including, but not limited to, forced labour, bonded labour, human trafficking and child slavery. While the most severe forms of labour exploitation represent instances of modern slavery, focusing on labour abuses more broadly is also important as it is not always clear at what point non-compliance with labour standards seeps into cases of criminal exploitation. This Special Issue focuses on what the large- and small-scale risk factors are that can cause working conditions to deteriorate, on how people can become trapped in exploitative conditions and on what can be done to prevent and remedy labour abuses. It does this by exploring the macro-level, specifically by examining global value chains and the labour exploitation within the global production regime; by exploring the meso-level, by focusing on the market-based character of business and human rights regulation; and by looking at the micro-level by examining labour regimes on factory floors and in private residences.
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Boufkhed, Sabah, Nicki Thorogood, Cono Ariti, and Mary Alison Durand. "Building a better understanding of labour exploitation's impact on migrant health: An operational framework." PLOS ONE 17, no. 8 (August 1, 2022): e0271890. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271890.
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Background There is limited evidence on labour exploitation’s impact on migrant health. This population is, however, often employed in manual low-skilled jobs known for poor labour conditions and exploitation risks. The lack of a common conceptualisation of labour exploitation in health research impedes the development of research measuring its effects on migrant health and, ultimately, our understanding of migrants’ health needs. Aim To develop an operational conceptual framework of labour exploitation focusing on migrant workers in manual low-skilled jobs. Methods Non-probabilistic sampling was used to recruit multidisciplinary experts on labour exploitation. An online Group Concept Mapping (GCM) was conducted. Experts: 1) generated statements describing the concept ‘labour exploitation’ focusing on migrants working in manual low-skilled jobs; 2) sorted generated statements into groups reflecting common themes; and 3) rated them according to their importance in characterising a situation as migrant labour exploitation. Multidimensional Scaling and Cluster Analysis were used to produce an operational framework detailing the concept content (dimensions, statements, and corresponding averaged rating). Findings Thirty-two experts sorted and rated 96 statements according to their relative importance (1 “relatively unimportant” to 5 “extremely important”). The operational framework consists of four key dimensions of migrant labour exploitation, distributed along a continuum of severity revealed by the rating: ‘Shelter and personal security’ (rating: 4.47); ‘Finance and migration’ (4.15); ‘Health and safety’ (3.96); and ‘Social and legal protection’ (3.71). Conclusion This study is the first to both generate an empirical operational framework of migrant labour exploitation, and demonstrate the existence of a "continuum from decent work to forced labour". The framework content can be operationalised to measure labour exploitation. It paves the way to better understand how different levels of exploitation affect migrant workers’ health for global policymakers, health researchers, and professionals working in the field of migrant exploitation.
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Muschik, W., and H. H. v. Borzeszkowski. "Exploitation of the dissipation inequality in general relativistic continuum thermodynamics." Archive of Applied Mechanics 84, no. 9-11 (July 3, 2014): 1517–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00419-014-0866-6.
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Christ, Katherine Leanne, Roger Leonard Burritt, and Stefan Schaltegger. "Accounting for work conditions from modern slavery to decent work." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 33, no. 7 (July 28, 2020): 1481–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-05-2020-4587.
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PurposeWith the initial focus on the extreme end of the work conditions continuum where, in the last decade, legislation has been introduced to combat illegal and illegitimate practices, this issue's lead paper provides an overview on key topics of extreme work conditions of modern slavery and accounting. The paper introduces the Special Issue on “Accounting for modern slavery, employees and work conditions in business” and its selected papers.Design/methodology/approachThe method adopted is a wide-ranging literature review exploring the continuum of work conditions and their relationship to accounting, especially extreme exploitation of workers through modern slavery.FindingsEmployment and workplace conditions and practices in business can be viewed as a continuum ranging from the illegal and illegitimate practices of modern slavery, through unethical and often illegal practices such as wages theft, to decent work. Given this continuum, in this Special Issue avenues are identified for accounting research to provide an account of the effectiveness of actions taken to eliminate modern slavery and overcome grey areas of work conditions.Practical implicationsThe paper helps to create an improved understanding of different types of exploitation in work conditions in different industries and the role accounting might play in research and practice.Social implicationsSlavery did not end with abolition in the 19th century. Instead, it changed its forms and continues to harm people in every country in the world especially in certain industries, of which several are discussed and accounting advice proffered. Likewise, as reflected in Special Issue papers, the role of accounting in reducing less extreme forms of poor work conditions is also considered.Originality/valueThe paper provides an overview of different forms and degrees of exploitation in work conditions and identifies the need for and areas of accounting research in this emerging area.
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Schwarz, Corinne, Daniel Alvord, Dorothy Daley, Megha Ramaswamy, Emily Rauscher, and Hannah Britton. "The Trafficking Continuum: Service Providers’ Perspectives on Vulnerability, Exploitation, and Trafficking." Affilia 34, no. 1 (October 29, 2018): 116–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886109918803648.
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Much of the research on human trafficking focuses on the prosecution of traffickers and protection of survivors after the crime has occurred. Less is known about the social disparities that make someone vulnerable to trafficking. This project examines human trafficking from a preventive focus, using data from a case study of service providers working with at-risk populations in the Kansas City, MO-KS area. The research team conducted 42 in-depth interviews with service providers working in the medical, educational, legal, and social services sectors from 2013 to 2016. Participants identified risk factors that could make someone vulnerable to labor or sexual exploitation. These factors clustered into four key areas: economic insecurity, housing insecurity, education, and migration. The research findings also suggest that human trafficking may be driven by an accumulation of risk factors that move vulnerable persons closer to labor exploitation and sex trafficking, fitting with a chain-of-risk model. We propose a model that reconceives of trafficking as a continuum that includes a range of vulnerabilities, violence, and traumas. In order to address human trafficking, policy makers and advocates need to focus on upstream prevention factors to address vulnerabilities that can lead to sex and labor exploitation.
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Egger, Keith N., and David S. Hibbett. "The evolutionary implications of exploitation in mycorrhizas." Canadian Journal of Botany 82, no. 8 (August 1, 2004): 1110–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b04-056.
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Some views of mutualism, where the fitness of two symbiotic partners is higher in association than when apart, assume that they necessarily evolve towards greater benefit for the partners. Most mutualisms, however, seem prone to conflicts of interest that destabilize the partnership. These conflicts arise in part because mutualistic outcomes are conditional, depending upon complex interactions between environmental, developmental, and genotypic factors. Mutualisms are also subject to exploitation or cheating. Although various compensating mechanisms have been proposed to explain how mutualism can be maintained in the presence of exploiters, none of these mechanisms can eliminate exploitation. In this paper we explore various compensating mechanisms in mycorrhizas, examine the evidence for exploitation in mycorrhizas, and conclude that mycorrhizal mutualisms exhibit characteristics that are more consistent with a concept of reciprocal parasitism. We propose that researchers should not assume mycorrhizas are mutualistic based upon structural characteristics or limited functional studies showing bilateral exchange and should view mycorrhizas as occupying a wider range on the symbiotic continuum, including commensalism and antagonism. We recommend that comparative studies of mycorrhizas incorporate other types of root associations that have traditionally been considered antagonistic.Key words: mycorrhizas, mutualism, exploiters, compensating mechanisms, symbiotic continuum.
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Mckelvey, Bill. "The Continuum Conception of Exploration and Exploitation: An Update to March’s Theory." M@n@gement 21, no. 3 (2018): 1032. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/mana.213.1032.
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Kusaka, Mamoru, Kambiz Zandi-Nejad, Shinichiro Kato, Francisca Beato, Hiroaki Nagano, Gray D. Shaw, and Nicholas L. Tilney. "EXPLOITATION OF THE CONTINUUM BETWEEN EARLY ISCHEMIA/REPERFUSION INJURY AND HOST ALLORESPONSIVENESS." Transplantation 67, no. 9 (May 1999): 1255–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00007890-199905150-00010.
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Severgnini, Elizandra, Edwin Vladimir Cardoza Galdamez, and Valter Afonso Vieira. "Efeitos do Exploration, Exploitation e Ambidestria no Desempenho das Organizações de Software." Revista de Administração Contemporânea 23, no. 1 (February 2019): 111–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1982-7849rac2019170330.
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Resumo A literatura apresenta lacunas da utilização das competências, recursos e capacidades (exploitation) em conjunto com a exploração de novas competências (exploration) para o alcance do desempenho. Pouco se conhece sobre como as dimensões de exploitation e exploration deveriam ser analisadas, tais como separadamente, por meio de continuum, em sequência, por meio interativo ou por (in)congruência. Dado à ausência de comprovação de como essas duas dimensões podem elucidar a performance, o problema que surge é: Como a congruência das dimensões de ambidestria podem elevar o desempenho? O objetivo do trabalho foi examinar como a congruência entre dualidades afeta o desempenho. Por meio de um levantamento com 227 empresas de software, nós testamos hipóteses relacionadas à congruência e interação dos dois fatores da ambidestria. Os resultados mostraram que (a) as dimensões de exploration e exploitation; (b) a ambidestria média e (c) a ambidestria por meio de um continuum explicam o desempenho, que (d) a interação exploitation × exploration não tem relação com o resultado da organização e que (e) a convergência de ambas as dimensões aumenta o resultado organizacional. Os achados são coerentes com a tese de Gibson e Birkinshaw (2004) e rejeitam as teses de Gupta, Smith e Shalley (2006) e Cao, Gedajlovic e Zhang (2009).
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Hopfgartner, Lisa, Christian Seubert, Franziska Sprenger, and Jürgen Glaser. "Experiences of precariousness and exploitation of Romanian transnational live-in care workers in Austria." Journal of Industrial Relations 64, no. 2 (January 19, 2022): 298–320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00221856211063923.
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Based on conceptualizations of a continuum of exploitation to examine phenomena related to precariousness and modern slavery, this article examined Romanian transnational live-in care workers’ job perceptions based on thematic analysis of qualitative interviews. As a framework, we adopted a five-dimensional concept of work-related precariousness, comprising (1) reproductive–material, (2) social–communicative, (3) legal–institutional (participation), (4) status and recognition, and (5) meaningful–subject-related aspects. While interviewees reported job satisfaction, they gave many accounts of unfair or exploitative treatment. Prime aspects of exploitation included low wages, extensive working hours and insecure self-employment, being tricked to work without remuneration, being urged to engage in work beyond care, being withheld food and sanitation, inadequate training, low status and recognition, and fulfilling excessive demands due to a strong sense of commitment. We align our findings with the literature to identify urgent fields of action for improving working conditions in live-in care.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Continuum of exploitation"
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Ocran, Emmanuel. "The faint low-frequency radio universe in continuum: exploitation of the pre-SKA deepest survey." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Science, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32898.
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This thesis presents a thorough and significant work on the properties of radio sources as derived from deep 610-MHz GMRT data and ancillary multi-wavelength data. The faint radio sources at 610-MHz are found out to distances such that the objects are seen as they were when the universe was less than half its current age. These data provide a first look at the faint radio sky at sensitivities that will soon be achieved by key programs on the South African MeerKAT radio telescope, and thus take a first step in the exploration of the radio universe that will be made by the Square Kilometre Array. I report deep 610-MHz GMRT observations of the EN1 field, a region of 1.86 deg2 . We achieve a nominal sensitivity of 7.1µ Jy beam−1 . From our 610 MHz mosaic image, we recover 4290 sources after accounting for multiple component sources down to a 5σ flux density limit of 35.5 µ Jy. From this data, I derive the 610 MHz source counts applying corrections for completeness, resolution bias and Eddington bias. The 610- MHz source counts show a flattening at flux densities below 1 mJy. The source counts are higher than previous observations at this frequency below this break. However, they are generally consistent with recent models of the low-frequency source population. Using ancillary multi-wavelength data in the field, I investigate the key issue of source population classification using the deepest data at an intermediate-low frequency (higher than LOFAR and lower than JVLA), where previous work has not been sensitive enough to reach the µJy population. By cross-matching against the multi-wavelength data, I identify 72% of the radio sample having reliable redshifts, of which 19% of the redshifts are based on spectroscopy. From the classification, I obtain 1685 sources as Star-Forming Galaxies (SFGs), 281 sources Radio-Quiet (RQ) and 339 sources Radio-Loud (RL) Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) for the sub-sample with redshifts and at least one multi-wavelength AGN diagnostic. SFGs are mostly low-power radio sources, i.e L610 MHz < 1025 W Hz−1 while RQ AGN and RL AGN have radio powers L610 MHz > 1025 W Hz−1 . From cross-matching my sample with other radio surveys (GMRT at 325-MHz, FIRST at 1.4-GHz and JVLA at 5-GHz), I obtain the median spectral index from 325-MHz to 610-MHz to be −0.80 ± 0.29, 610-MHz to 1.4-GHz to be −0.83 ± 0.31 and 1.4-GHz to 5-GHz to be −1.12 ± 0.15. The main result is that the median spectral index appears to steepen at the highest frequency. With the above catalogue in hand, I use the non-parametric V/Vmax test and the radio luminosity function to investigate the cosmic evolution of different source populations. I study SFGs and derive their IR-radio correlation and luminosity function as a function of redshift. By integrating the evolving SFG luminosity functions I also derive the cosmic star formation rate density out to z = 1.5. I address the long standing question about the origin of radio emission in RQ AGN. I compare the star formation rate (SFR) derived from their far-infrared luminosity, as traced by Herschel, with the SFR computed from their radio emission. I find evidence that the main contribution to the radio emission of RQ AGN is the star formation activity in their host galaxies. At high luminosities, however, both SFGs and 1 RQ AGN display a radio excess when comparing radio and infrared star formation rates. The vast majority of our sample lie along the SFR − M? ”main sequence” at all redshifts when using infrared star formation rates. This result opens the possibility of using the radio band to estimate the SFR even in the hosts of bright AGN where the optical-to-mid-infrared emission can be dominated by the AGN. I investigate the evolution of radio AGN out to z ∼ 1.5 with continuous models of pure density and pure luminosity evolution with Φ? ∝ ( 1 + z)(2.25±0.38)−(0.63±0.35)z and L610 MHz ∝ ( 1 + z)(3.45±0.53)−(0.55±0.29)z respectively. I also constrain the evolution of RQ AGN and RL AGN separately with a continuous model of pure luminosity evolution. For the RQ and RL AGN, we find a fairly mild evolution with redshift best fitted by pure luminosity evolution with L610 MHz ∝ ( 1 + z)(2.81±0.43)−(0.57±0.30)z for RQ AGN and L610 MHz ∝ ( 1 + z)(3.58±0.54)−(0.56±0.29)z for RL AGN. The results reveal that the 610 MHz radio AGN population thus comprises two differently evolving populations whose radio emission is mostly SF-driven or AGN-driven respectively. Finally, I probe the infrared-radio correlation and radio spectral indices of the faint radio population using stacking. I stack infrared sources in the EN1 field using the MIPS 24 micron mid-infrared survey and radio surveys created at 325 MHz, 610 MHz and 1.4 GHz. The stacking experiment shows a variation in the absolute strength of the infrared-radio correlation between these three different frequencies and the MIPS 24 micron band. I find tentative evidence of a small deviation from the correlation at the faintest infrared flux densities. The stacked radio spectral index analyses reveal that the majority of the median stacked sources exhibit steep spectra, with a spectral index that steepens with frequency between α 325 610 and α 610 1400. This work is particularly useful to pave the way for upcoming radio surveys with SKA pathfinders and precursors.
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Davis, Tina. "Exploitation And Forced Labour Practices Of Working Holiday-Makers In The Australian Fresh Food Supply Chain: A Structural Approach." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17850.
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This thesis examines the dynamics and processes that drive exploitation and forced labour of temporary migrant workers in the Australian fresh food supply chain. The thesis argues that forced labour needs to be understood as a broader paradigm to capture the multiple factors and root causes that make supply chains in the Global North a site for exploitation. Through a study of working holiday-makers in the horticulture sector, this thesis explores the roles labour contractors, farmers, supermarkets and the state play in shaping a labour market that is conducive to the emergence of exploitation. Each of these actors, as part of the production network, affect the level of precariousness that working holiday-makers experience in horticulture. The study is thus motivated by the question of what produces and drives exploitation and forced labour at the intersection of the fresh food supply chain with the labour supply chain in Australia. This thesis integrates the theoretical concepts of forced labour and precarious employment into a “continuum of exploitation” research framework, which is then applied to examine the specific sector of horticulture. The qualitative methodological approach is two-fold. Firstly, secondary data were collected and evaluated. Second, expert interviews were conducted and evaluated through thematic analysis. This dual methodological approach addresses the factors and dynamics that drive and shape exploitation. In sum, the exploitation of temporary migrant workers in supply chains emerges as a product of precarious employment that is driven by structural factors. Therefore, this thesis concludes that exploitation and forced labour in supply chains in the Global North will not decrease unless it is addressed from a systemic perspective where response strategies are extended from an individual perpetrator approach to also include structural factors.
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Jabrouni, Hicham. "Exploitation des connaissances issues des processus de retour d'expérience industriels." Thesis, Toulouse, INPT, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012INPT0084/document.
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Depuis plusieurs années, dans le secteur industriel, l’amélioration continue constitue un aspect important de la famille de normes ISO 9000 maintenue par l’organisation ISO (International Organization for Standardization). Elle se concentre sur l’amélioration de la satisfaction du client en passant par des améliorations continues et incrémentales des produits, des services et des processus. Afin de répondre à ces exigences, un point clé consiste à optimiser le processus de résolution de problèmes qui vise à analyser et résoudre les problèmes courants pour éviter de nouvelles occurrences. Différents processus de résolution de problèmes ont été définis et sont implantés dans les entreprises. L’un des plus connu est sans doute la méthode PLAN-DO-CHECK-ACT (PDCA), également connue sous le nom de « Roue de Deming ». D’autres méthodes sont également utilisées comme : 8 Disciplines (8D) également appelée TOPS (Team-Oriented Problem Solving), Six sigma ou DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control), 7 step, etc. Les activités principales dans ces processus sont : la formation d’une équipe de résolution de problème, la description et l’évaluation de la criticité des événements, l’analyse des événements afin d’en rechercher les causes racine et valider cette analyse, la proposition d’une solution au problème et son application (solution curative), la suggestion d’actions pour éviter une nouvelle occurrence du problème (solution préventive, leçons apprises, etc.). Dans cette logique d’amélioration continue, un processus de Retour d’Expérience (Rex) est une représentation générique focalisé sur l'acquisition des connaissances des experts en phase de résolution de problème et sur la réutilisation de ces connaissances pour résoudre ou éviter de nouveaux problèmes. Une base de connaissances de retour d'expérience va servir de pivot entre la phase d'acquisition et la phase d'exploitation. Les points abordés dans le travail de thèse seront les suivants : Représenter les différentes composantes d'une expérience en utilisant les processus de résolution de problème comme support de capitalisation. Instrumenter les processus de capitalisation et d’exploitation Formaliser des mécanismes de recherche d’expérience, Formaliser des mécanismes de réutilisation d’analyses expertes - Développer un outil support de retour d’expérience sur une architecture WebContinuous improvement of industrial processes is increasingly a key element of competitiveness for industrial systems. Management of experience feedback takes place in this framework to build, analyze and facilitate the reuse of immaterial potential of an organization in order to make it better in achieving its processes and / or products. For several years, the need for continuous improvement of products and processes has led many companies to set up standardized problem solving processes. For this purpose, different Problem Solving Processes are commonly used in the industrial field such as: 8D, PDCA (Plan Do Check Act), DMAICS (Define Measure Analyze Improve Control Standardize) or, more recently, the 9S process (9Steps). The main activities in the problem solving process are: The composition of the problem solving team, the description and assessment of the problem highlighted by events, the analysis of events to identify their root causes and their validation, the formulation of the problem solutions and their application checking (corrective actions), the action suggestions to prevent from a new occurrence of the problem (preventive actions, lessons learned, etc.). During the Problem Solving Processes, the intellectual investment of experts is often considerable. We propose to define mechanisms to reuse previously performed analysis (already solved issues) to guide the resolution of a new problem. The main contributions of this research work are : The structuring of a cognitive experience feedback framework allowing a flexible exploitation of expert knowledge: we propose a formal representation of an experience (according to the problem solving processes). - The definition of two mechanisms to exploit the context and analysis in these experiences. The specification and development of Experience Feedback Support Framework ProWhy offering methodological and software support for knowledge management (KM), and in particular for capitalization and exploitation phases of experience feedback processes
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Rukavina, Ivan. "Cyber-physics intrinsic modelling for smart systems." Thesis, Compiègne, 2021. http://bibliotheque.utc.fr/EXPLOITATION/doc/IFD/2021COMP2581.
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Dans le cadre de cette thèse, une approche de calcul de couplage multi-échelle et multi-physique en 2D et en 3D est présentée. La modélisation multi-échelle d’une structure consiste de l’échelle macro qui représente la réponse homogénéisée de la structure entière, tandis que l’échelle micro peut capturer les détails du comportement à la petite échelle du matériau, où des mécanismes inélastiques, tels que la plasticité ou l’endommagement, peuvent être pris en compte. L’intérieur de chaque macro-élément est rempli par le maillage à l’échelle micro qui s’y adapte entièrement. Les deux échelles sont couplées à travers le champ de déplacements imposé à l’interface. Le calcul par éléments finis est effectué, en utilisant une procédure de solution operator-split sur les deux échelles. En 2D, une discontinuité dans le champ de déplacements est introduite à l’échelle macro dans un élément fini Q4, pour pouvoir capturer l’adoucissement comportement d’un matériau piézoélectrique. Un degré de liberté supplémentaire qui représente le voltage est ajouté aux noeuds des macro-éléments de tétraèdre et d’hexaèdre en 3D. La poutre de Timoshenko comportant un modèle de commutation de polarisation est utilisée à l’échelle micro. Également, une formulation multi-échelle de Hellinger-Reissner a été développée et implémentée pour un simple patch test en électrostatique. La procédure proposée est mise en œuvre dans le logiciel de calcul par éléments finis FEAP - Finite Element Analysis Program. Pour simuler le comportement aux deux échelles, FEAP est modifié, et deux versions différentes du code sont obtenues - macroFEAP et microFEAP. Le couplage de ces codes est réalisé avec Component Template Library - CTL qui rend possible l’échange d’informations entre les deux échelles. Les capacités de cette approche multi-échelle en 2D et en 3D sont démontrées dans un environnement purement mécanique, mais aussi multi-physique. La formulation théorique et l’application algorithmique sont présentées, et les avantages de la méthode multi-échelle pour la modélisation des matériaux hétérogènes sont illustrés avec plusieurs exemples numériquesIn this thesis, a multi-scale and multi-physics coupling computation procedure for a 2D and 3D setting is presented. When modeling the behavior of a structure by a multi-scale method, the macro-scale is used to describe the homogenized response of the structure, and the micro-scale to describe the details of the behavior on the smaller scale of the material where some inelastic mechanisms, like damage or plasticity, can be taken into account. The micro-scale mesh is defined for each macro-scale element in a way to fit entirely inside it. The two scales are coupled by imposing a constraint on the displacement field over their interface. The computation is performed using the operator split solution procedure on both scales, using the standard finite element method. In a 2D setting, an embedded discontinuity is implemented in the Q4 macroscale element to capture the softening behavior happening on the micro-scale. For the micro-scale element, a constant strain triangle (CST) is used. In a 3D setting, a macro-scale tetrahedral and hexahedral elements are developed, while on the micro-scale Timoshenko beam finite elements are used. This multi-scale methodology is extended with a multi-physics functionality, to simulate the behavior of a piezoelectric material. An additional degree of freedom (voltage) is added on the nodes of the 3D macro-scale tetrahedral and hexahedral elements. For the micro-scale element, a Timoshenko beam element with added polarization switching model is used. Also, a multi-scale Hellinger- Reissner formulation for electrostatics has been developed and implemented for a simple electrostatic patch test. For implementing the proposed procedure, Finite Element Analysis Program (FEAP) is used. To simulate the behavior on both macro and micro-scale, FEAP is modified and two different version of FEAP code are implemented – macroFEAP and microFEAP. For coupling, the two codes are exchanging information between them, and Component Template Library (CTL) is used. The capabilities of the proposed multi-scale approach in a 2D and 3D pure mechanics settings, but also multi-physics environment have been shown. The theoretical formulation and algorithmic implementation are described, and the advantages of the multi-scale approach for modeling heterogeneous materials are shown on several numerical examples
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Vallespir, Bruno. "Exploitation des systèmes de production discrets-continus : contribution à une méthode de conception." Bordeaux 1, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987BOR10613.
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Modelisation d'un systeme physique a 2 niveaux permettant de situer la classe de procedes dits "discrets-continus". Definition du systeme d'exploitation comme systeme de gestion du systeme physique permettant de prendre en compte les fonctions d'exploitation, de les integrer et de les organiser
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Vallespir, Bruno. "Exploitation des systèmes de production discrets-continus contribution à une méthode de conception /." Grenoble 2 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37610520k.
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François, Hélène. "Synthèse de la parole par concaténation d'unités acoustiques : construction et exploitation d'une base de parole continue." Rennes 1, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002REN10127.
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Ces travaux s'inscrivent dans le cadre de la synthèse de la parole par concaténation d'unités acoustiques de taille variable multi-représentées. Pour remédier à l'hétérogénéité de la qualité et de l'intelligibilité des voix synthétiques, nous utilisons une base de parole continue riche au niveau linguistique, ici un jeu de phrases naturelles. Sa construction est vue comme un problème NP-complet de recouvrement minimal d'ensemble. Les méthodes gloutonne, cracheuse et d'échange par paire condensent ainsi des corpus de 100000 à 5000 phrases. Ensuite nous cherchons dans un corpus spécifique l'ensemble des séquences d'unités acoustiques permettant la synthèse de 10 phrases tests. Pour chaque séquence trouvée ses unités sont concaténées, puis sa qualité est évaluée de façon objective en mesurant sa distance acoustique à une référence naturelle. Cela permet de spécifier et de caractériser des bases "génératives", de développer et d'évaluer de nouvelles méthodes de sélection d'unités.
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Ngot, Kongolo Joseph Christian. "Stabilité des gradins des exploitations à ciel ouvert : approche statistique mécanique et probabiliste." Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, INPL, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990INPL050N.
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Les fosses à ciel ouvert font l'objet d'une étude de stabilité des pentes. La méthode généralement utilisée est celle décrite par HOEK et LONDE. Elle ne prend pas en compte la structure (espacement et extension des discontinuités) du massif et les paramètres de tir au voisinage des fronts. Cette méthode convient au dimensionnement des fosses globales. En effet on veut écarter tout risque de rupture, et on se place dans l'hypothèse la plus défavorable. Pour le gradin au contraire, on accepterait bien une certaine probabilité de rupture à condition de contrôler les paramètres de la stabilité. Dans l'objectif de mettre au point une méthode de prévision et de prévention de la stabilité des gradins, l'influence de ces paramètres naturels ou d'exploitation a été étudiée à partir d'une enquête, et des simulations des différents états de stabilité ont été effectuées. Des méthodes de dimensionnement des banquettes (paramètre de stabilité à l'échelle du gradin) sont proposées.
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Tinkler, Elias, and Patrik Westlin. "Fostering Continuous Improvement and Innovation Through the Complaints Process : A case study at a global manufacturing company." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-79940.
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Quality and innovation are central elements in a successful business, where organizations are not solely looking to satisfy existing customers with high quality but to create novel solutions for future customers as well. As a result, addressing both concepts are vital for sustaining business longterm, which has led to a conflict regarding where companies should allocate their efforts. This study analyzed a global manufacturing company’s complaints management (CM) process, where quality and innovation were addressed with the study questions: How can the CM process be improved to reduce recurring complaints? and How can the CM process be improved to foster innovation?. To answer these, a qualitative approach was used in forms of unstructured and semi-structured interviews as well as quality management & control tools. The variables analyzed were partly constructed from the extensive literature review and partly from the employees involved with the CM process. The results showcased negligence towards the CM process, where process description and governance as well as knowledge management were lacking. Practical implications of the study indicates that if the CM process receives more focus in regards to the mentioned factors, the quality and its ability to foster innovation as well innovation will be improved. Theoretical implications of the study indicates a misalignment between the perception of the CM process and the actions of the company. Employees found it essential to the company’s strategy whereas the process, despite this received attention. These implications are limited to large manufacturing companies and in order to generalize the results, further research is required.
Books on the topic "Continuum of exploitation"
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Jaggar, Sarah F. Fraud and abuse: Medicare continues to be vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous providers : statement of Sarah F. Jaggar, Director, Health Financing and Public Health Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, before the Special Committee on Aging, U.S. Senate. [Washington, D.C.]: The Office, 1995.
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Jaggar, Sarah F. Fraud and abuse: Medicare continues to be vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous providers : statement of Sarah F. Jaggar, Director, Health Financing and Public Health Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, before the Special Committee on Aging, U.S. Senate. [Washington, D.C.]: The Office, 1995.
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Figone, Albert J. Afterword. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037283.003.0010.
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This concluding chapter reflects on the continued trend of widespread gambling in the U.S. entertainment industry—which, among other factors, has contributed to the frequency of betting on college sports to this day—and the consequences thereof. Gambling has since become the norm, and with college sports programs being especially profitable ventures, game rigging as well as the exploitation of the players will continue to remain the norm rather than the exception, as the chapter explores more recent trends in sports betting. To conclude, the chapter discusses the possibility of further legislative regulation on sports betting, but warns for the consequences should such laws be enacted.
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Henning, Jessen. Part I Assessing the UN Institutional Structure for Global Ocean Governance: The UN’s Role in Global Ocean Governance, 3 Advancing the Deep Seabed ‘Mining Code’: Key Environmental Elements of the Regulatory Framework for the Commercial Exploitation of Mineral Resources. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198824152.003.0003.
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This chapter examines the key environmental elements of the International Seabed Authority's (ISA) ‘Mining Code’, a regulatory framework for the commercial exploitation of mineral resources. The term ‘Mining Code’ refers to the whole comprehensive set of rules, regulations and procedures issued by the ISA to regulate prospecting, exploration and exploitation of minerals. The set of rules includes the collaboration of the respective responsibilities of deep seabed explorers and of the ISA in order to ensure environmentally sustainable development of deep seabed mineral resources. The chapter first provides an overview of the general regulatory framework for deep seabed mining, which is a contract-based system, before discussing the continuous legal evolution of the Mining Code. It also considers the generic issues that need to be addressed in relation to the future exploitation of minerals and explains why exploitation-related environmental regulations must be an integral component of advancing the Mining Code.
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Lord, Nicholas, Éva Inzelt, Wim Huisman, and Rita Faria, eds. European White-Collar Crime. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529212327.001.0001.
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From corporate corruption and the facilitation of money laundering, to food fraud and labour exploitation, European citizens continue to be confronted by serious corporate and white-collar crimes. Presenting an original series of provocative essays, this book offers a European framing of white-collar crime. Experts from different countries foreground what is unique, innovative, or different about white-collar and corporate crimes that are so strongly connected to Europe, including the tensions that exist within and between the nation-states of Europe, and within the institutions of the European region. This European voice provides an original contribution to discourses surrounding a form of crime which is underrepresented in current criminological literature.
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Ross, Stephen F. The Single-Entity Doctrine of Antitrust as Applied to Sports Leagues. Edited by Michael A. McCann. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190465957.013.11.
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Competition law generally requires competitors who agree on restraints of trade to justify their agreements as procompetitive when market forces create the potential for consumer exploitation. This analysis, known as the Rule of Reason (from its common law origins), does not apply to internal agreements within a single firm. The U.S. Supreme Court has characterized sports league policies as agreements among club owners who control the league, rather than unilateral decisions of a single entity. Opponents of the application of the Rule of Reason continue to seek doctrinal shields against judicial review of anticompetitive sports rules, and this chapter explains why such an approach is unsound competition policy.
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Perrier, Maud. Childcare Struggles, Maternal Workers & Social Reproduction. Policy Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529214925.001.0001.
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Spanning the United Kingdom, United States and Australia, this comparative study brings maternal workers' politicized voices to the centre of contemporary debates on childcare, work and gender. The book illustrates how maternal workers continue to organize against low pay, exploitative working conditions and state retrenchment and provides a unique theorization of feminist divisions and solidarities. Bringing together social reproduction with maternal studies, this is a resonating call to build a cross-sectoral, intersectional movement around childcare. The book shows why social reproduction needs to be at the centre of a critical theory of work, care and mothering for post-pandemic times.
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Hallett, Miranda Cady. Rooted/Uprooted. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037665.003.0007.
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This chapter asks what happens when transnational migrant families own homes, plant trees, and establish businesses in small-town America but still lack a viable path to legal residency. Based on extensive fieldwork in small, rural Arkansas communities with Salvadoran transnational migrants, the author explores the contradictory dynamics between a growing identification with local geographies and continuing legal exclusion. Most Salvadoran migrants are caught between categories of national belonging; classified as either “illegal” or “temporary,” they lack rights to political participation either in the United States or in El Salvador. These legal exclusions create a mobile space of exception around the body of the migrant, which facilitate the exploitation of migrants' labor. Legal exclusion also contributes to social exclusion through the contradictory production of both invisibility and hypervisibility. Despite this, transnational migrants continue to put down roots in their new places of settlement.
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Mone, Thomas. Organ donation. Edited by Jeremy R. Chapman. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0277.
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Kidney transplantation has been and continues to be dependent on the apparently unscientific and decidedly personal act of organ donation. In the best-performing regions of the world, 75–95% of those who are medically suitable actually become donors upon their deaths, but because of increasing rates of organ failure, even in these high-performing areas, waiting lists continue to grow. Deceased organ donation performance is highly variable even among medically developed countries, and it is especially challenged in countries with cultural, legal, ethical or religious, economic, clinical, or organizational practices that limit donation. Recognizing these challenges, the transplantation community has collaborated to identify and promulgate international best practices and to foster innovation in the management of deceased donation. The goal of this effort is to clarify the organizational structures, social change interventions, and medical practices necessary to maximize both living and deceased donation. Although donation practice differs significantly across countries, successful organ donation programmes share certain traits and practices that can be modified to fit varied medical delivery reimbursement and social systems and structures. The world’s best-performing donation programmes have focused on increasing the public’s and healthcare professionals’ trust in the donation process, ensuring equitable access to transplantation, and they have built donation organizations that borrow from the theory and practice of business and healthcare management systems. The critical processes, essential functions, job roles, and foundational principles of successful donation programmes require the use of the tools that have been shown to improve donation and increase transplantation, thereby reducing (or, ideally, ending) deaths on the waiting lists. The wider adoption of these tools by countries with fledgling or struggling organ donation would increase organ availability and its exploitation of the poor who in many countries become organ ‘vendors’ rather than donors.
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Cappelen, Herman. Reply to Strawson 2. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814719.003.0011.
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This chapter considers a second response to Strawson’s challenge, which contends that conceptual engineering can be appropriate even when it does not preserve topic, due to the importance of what are called ‘lexical effects’. It begins by introducing some examples of lexical effects, which are cognitive and emotive effects caused by a word that are not part of its semantics or its pragmatics. It then articulates the idea that a non-topic-preserving change of meaning can be motivated by desirable lexical effects of certain words. For example, it may be important to continue to use the word ‘marriage’ despite a change of topic because of the associations this word has to celebration, love, commitment, and so on. It then lays out some of the risks of non-topic-preserving meaning change, focusing on the potential for miscommunication and verbal disputes. It concludes that the exploitation of lexical effects ought to be avoided.
Book chapters on the topic "Continuum of exploitation"
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Wang, Ling, Bowen Huang, Xian Wu, and Ruixin Yang. "Continuous Human Learning Optimization with Enhanced Exploitation." In Intelligent Equipment, Robots, and Vehicles, 472–87. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7213-2_46.
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Xue, Wei, Haihong Zhang, Xueyu Wei, Tao Tao, and Xue Li. "Optimizing Exploration-Exploitation Trade-off in Continuous Action Spaces via Q-ensemble." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 148–60. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20868-3_11.
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Kundu, Subrata, Sk Moquammel Haque, and Biswajit Ghosh. "In Vitro Exploitation of Medicinal Plants for Continuous Supply of Antidiabetic Bioactive Compounds." In Biotechnology of Anti-diabetic Medicinal Plants, 25–64. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3529-8_2.
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Zaman, Kazi Arif Uz, and Kaliappa Kalirajan. "Sustainable Green Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Regional Cooperation." In Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies, 181–93. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5542-6_14.
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AbstractDue to the continuous need to attain food security for the growing population, resource exploitation in the agriculture sector is evident. Hence, both production growth and sustainability have become key policy dilemmas. This paper examines the prospective roles of regional cooperation in attaining sustainable green growth in the agricultural production process. To formulate the Green Growth Index for Agriculture (GGIA), 16 South-through-East Asian countries were considered. The result implies that if the countries could work under a regional cooperation bloc, on average, they can exploit the untapped potential production of 33.8% without deploying any additional resources. Analysis for emission-management reveals that if the countries could work under a regional cooperation bloc, on average, its agriculture emission-management efficiency would be 45%. According to the GGIA, China, Japan, and South Korea have the highest overall efficiency, while Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Thailand have the lowest in this region.
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Scott, Sam. "The labour exploitation continuum." In Labour Exploitation and Work-Based Harm. Policy Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447322030.003.0004.
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This chapter outlines the various forms of labour exploitation that exist. At the extreme end of the ‘continuum’ there is worker fatality both at work and through work. There are then extreme forms of non-fatal harm, including: chattel slavery; modern slavery; forced labour; human trafficking; and child labour. All of these extremes have criminal–legal frameworks associated with them that are designed to minimise their prevalence. Often, however, these criminal–legal frameworks are either inadequate or are not enforced, and so extreme forms of exploitation and harm go unpunished. Moreover, a great deal of exploitation and harm, as argued in the introduction, goes on above these criminal–legal baseline definitions. This book, is particularly interested in the labour exploitation continuum that includes, but is certainly not limited to, illegal employer practice.
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Bazzaz, F. A., and P. M. Wayne. "Coping with Environmental Heterogeneity: The Physiological Ecology of Tree Seedling Regeneration across the Gap—Understory Continuum." In Exploitation of Environmental Heterogeneity by Plants, 349–90. Elsevier, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-155070-7.50018-4.
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Tankosic, Mirjana M., Ana V. Grbic, and Zilijeta Krivokapic. "The Marginalization and Exploitation of Women in Media Industry." In Globalization and Its Impact on Violence Against Vulnerable Groups, 75–94. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9627-1.ch004.
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The woman in media is still a face that symbolizes the field of popular culture and hypersexualized naked body, and it is most often presented in the media as a victim. In the last decade, the representation of women and the women`s movement in the media has managed to get some progress. In the media, we will not see Roma women, disabled women, we will not see poor women, because they are not topics that manage to sell media content. The only topic that sells newspapers is the topic of violence against women, first of all because it is a type of secondary victimization, where female identity through media content is again represented as ‘another', and through the identity of the victim. The dead or scorched female body and the continuum of violence satisfy the logic of market capital. The main areas that were highlighted in this research paper are the portrayal of women by the media, the marginalization of women in mass media, the image of women in media, the influence of media on the views of the gender, and the stereotypes of girls and women in the media.
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Walker, Terry, and Peter J. Grund. "Free Indirect Speech, Slipping, or a System in Flux? Exploring the Continuum between Direct and Indirect Speech in Early Modern English." In Speech Representation in the History of English, 156–82. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190918064.003.0007.
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This chapter explores speech representation structures in Early Modern English that exhibit a mixture of direct speech and indirect speech. Drawing data from an Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED), we chart the frequency and characteristics of different types of speech representation that overlap between direct and indirect speech (such as the mixture of third-person and first-person reference, and the use of reporting expression + that + direct speech representation). We show that accounting for such uses as “slipping,” free indirect speech, and/or signs of a system under development is less convincing. Instead, we argue that the mixture should be seen as exploitation of speech representation resources for various sociopragmatic and communicative purposes, such as disambiguating voices and shifting responsibilities for the speech report. The chapter thus contributes to the broader goal of enhancing our understanding of the sociopragmatics of speech representation in the history of English.
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"SUBJECT CONTINUED—EXPLOITATION OF SKILL." In Cannibals All! Or, Slaves without Masters, 38–48. Harvard University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvk12sp8.9.
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Bowen, Raven. "“You can’t make a living doing porn”: Laith." In Work, Money and Duality, 35–54. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447358800.003.0002.
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In this chapter, extent literature on ‘exiting’ sex work is presented and then problematise due the limitations of role transition theories that underpin this scholarship, the overreliance on the experiences of the most visible sex workers, who are street-based, and ideological standpoints that view sex work as wholly exploitation, all contributes to simplistic dichotomy conceptualisations of as something people are either trapped in or have survived. Drawing on the lived experiences and practices of Contributors who operate at the intersection of sex work and square work, and research that offers a nuanced understanding of the factors that influence decisions about involvement in sex work. The Continuum of Sex Industry Work and Square Work (SIWSQ) is introduced as an alternative framework to understand this complex issue. The chapter ends with a detailed accounting by participants of their diversified earnings derived from duality compared to the general population, time investments in work in both industries, and how participating in concurrent sex work and square work provides ‘flexicurity’. Contributors discuss how duality staves off poverty, provides money for emergencies, seed money and funding for interim projects such as tuition, and facilitates social mobility if engaged in as a longer-term financial strategy to pay for life.
Conference papers on the topic "Continuum of exploitation"
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Liang, Hui, Jian Chang, Shujie Deng, Can Chen, Ruofeng Tong, and Jianjun Zhang. "Exploitation of novel multiplayer gesture-based interaction and virtual puppetry for digital storytelling to develop children's narrative skills." In VRCAI '15: International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2817675.2817680.
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Jiang, Yu, John Killough, Linkai Li, Xiaona Cui, and Jin Tang. "EDFM-based Multi-Continuum Shale Gas Simulation with Low Velocity Non-Darcy Water Flow Effect." In SPE Reservoir Simulation Conference. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/203988-ms.
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Abstract The exploitation of shale gas has attracted extensive attention in industry and academia. Multi-scale gas transportation mechanisms in matrix and fractures have been well studied. However, due to the presence of water originating from both fracking fluids and connate water, shale gas production is also greatly affected by water imbibition and flowback, of which the processes have not been thoroughly analyzed. This paper aims at presenting a comprehensive multi-continuum multi-component model to characterize the complicated shale gas flow behaviors as well as the impact of non-Darcy water flow on shale gas production. A two-phase numerical simulator is built up with multi-continuum settings. Shale matrix is split into organic and inorganic matters while natural and hydraulic fractures are modeled using an embedded discrete fracture model (EDFM). Fracture closure and elongation are modeled using a dynamic gridding approach. Different transportation mechanisms are considered to describe gas flow in shale, including Knudsen diffusion, ab/desorption, and convection. The low-velocity non-Darcy flow of water is used in inorganic pores to analyze the effect of water flow. A pre-stage model based on pumping history is simulated firstly before production starts. This serves as an initialization step to model fracking fluid imbibition and early-stage water flowback. This pre-stage simulation gives out more precise pressure and saturation profiles than the conventional non-equilibrium initialization method, especially in enhanced pore volumes and fractures. Based upon simulation results from the production period, Langmuir isotherm absorption has shown a massive impact on gas flow in shale, and Knudsen diffusion weights highest among transport mechanisms. Water non-Darcy flow better benefits in simulating both early-stage water flowback and production process compared with Darcy flow, which gives us a new explanation on the low flowback efficiency in real shale gas operations. Studies on early-stage water flowback also show that the flowback affects saturation distribution, which has a strong relationship with gas production and shall not be ignored. This work establishes a novel method to simulate and analyze shale gas production. It considers multiple and complex flow mechanisms and gives out better estimates of water flux. It is also used to initialize a model for pumping water imbibition and early-stage flowback, which can be used as technical resources for analyzing and simulating unconventional plays.
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Sansom, C. L. "Continuous improvement techniques and their use in transferring R&D processes into production." In Fifth International Conference on FACTORY 2000 - The Technology Exploitation Process. IEE, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/cp:19970126.
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Okamoto, Masahiro, and Tamotsu Murakami. "Proposal of Defining Exploration and Exploitation in Engineering Design and Evaluating the Degree of Exploration by Natural Language Processing." In ASME 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2022-88344.
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Abstract Recently, in the field of business administration, the idea that ambidexterity of exploration and exploitation is necessary for organizations to continue to generate value in a sustainable manner has been attracting attention. Although the balance between exploration and exploitation is also considered to be important in engineering research and development and design, research from such a perspective has not been conducted. We have been analyzing the ambidexterity of exploration and exploitation from the perspective of design, and developing a method to evaluate the degree of ambidexterity objectively and quantitatively. In this paper, the definitions of exploration and exploitation in design, a quantitative evaluation method for the degree of exploration based on the definitions, and the results of the verification of this method are presented. The evaluation method is developed on the basis of the definition that focuses on whether the design object has changed qualitatively or quantitatively as a result of the organization’s activity. In this method, words related to the functions of the target product are extracted from the design documents, and their similarity to those in past documents is evaluated. As a result of applying the proposed method to the descriptions of past products, for which the relationship between exploration and exploitation has been clarified, it is shown that the proposed method can be appropriate as an evaluation method for exploration.
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Schmidt, Klaus D., Werner Scholz, and Hartmut Schlüter. "Gas Turbine Compressor Unit Application in Sour Gas Field Operation." In ASME 1986 International Gas Turbine Conference and Exhibit. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/86-gt-113.
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The use of sour gas as primary energy requires constant supply pressure and flow to the gas treatment plant as well as to the pipeline distribution network and consumers. During exploitation of gas fields, when the well head pressure and flow decreases, production continues at increased cost. Application of gas compression equipment is required for continuation of supply pressure and flow to the sour gas treatment plant and to customer connection flanges. The design and layout of sour gas compression equipment has to guarantee high operational availability and reliability for continuous duty. To properly select equipment for sour gas applications, including the compressor, its driver and auxiliary and ancillary systems, the specific requirements and standards have to be taken into consideration. This paper will report about a situation in the sour gas fields in the northern part of West Germany and will describe the design objectives, station layout and equipment selection for a sour gas compressor station including operating experiences.
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Arslan, B., and A. Orailoglu. "Full exploitation of process variation space for continuous delivery of optimal delay test quality." In 2013 18th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2013). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/aspdac.2013.6509654.
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Giacomelli, E., S. Pratesi, R. Fani, and L. Gimignani. "Improving Availability of Hypercompressors." In ASME 2002 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2002-1168.
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Always growing capacities and performance requirements, renew the continuous challenge for designers. Plant feedback and Service engineering tremendously improve safety, reliability, availability, and maintainability of the machines, with operating economical benefits. A suitable machine design, system engineering, operation and maintenance critically affect a successful plant exploitation. Innovative methods of simulation, modeling, technologies, diagnostic systems with the use of special features, optimize maintenance and improve efficiency, allowing to reach high availability factors.
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Molna´r, Pavol. "Experiences With Advanced Pedagogical Approaches at Slovak Universities." In ASME 2008 9th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/esda2008-59581.
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• Blended learning (face-to-face and online learning) as basic component in creating the right environment for professional language learning. • Experience with Leonardo da Vinci Project REDILEM and the exploitation of its social and economic benefits for learners, existing and perspective entrepreneurs, managers and other beneficiaries. • Distance learning — the most important possibility of improving access to continuous vocational training and lifelong education in regions. • Advantages and some obstacles in distance (e-learning) education.
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Carrera, Guido Z., and Edmilson M. dos Santos. "New Technical and Economic Solutions for Gas Exploitation in the Amazon Region (Peru-Brazil Pipeline)." In 2000 3rd International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2000-179.
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The Amazon region has been demonstrating a great oil and gas potential in Brazil and in the neighboring countries, specially the field of Camisea in Peru. However, the development of feasible and economically justifiable transport systems, that can allow the flow of those resources to their potential markets, continues to be the great challenge. In this work, we present some options that can be transformed into competitive and commercial projects. We describe different gas pipeline options, discussing their technical, economic and commercial aspects.
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Rowley, C., and G. Ford. "Digitally Empowering Naval Fleet Support." In 14th International Naval Engineering Conference and Exhibition. IMarEST, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24868/issn.2515-818x.2018.058.
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Throughout history, the Royal Navy (RN) has invested in technical innovation to gain warfare advantage over its opponents. However, innovation often comes with change to the asset design, its operation and through life support. The most obvious example was during the turn of the 20th century when the RN moved from coal to oil powered propulsion systems, resulting in a major change to the skills of the crew and the support chain. The demands placed on the RN have continued to grow during the 21st century, with a fleet of highly complex surface ships and submarines that provide the UK conventional and nuclear strike capability. This paper explains how warfare advantage can be further improved by information exploitation that is targeted at the improvement of fleet availability, capability and safety by empowering the operator and its shore-side support organisation. The projects described in this paper have been developed in collaboration with the RN as part of the Maritime Support Information Exploitation Strategy (known as MarSIX). The paper therefore discusses the information principles used within Babcock’s Support Strategy to deliver Navy Command’s MarSIX vision.
Reports on the topic "Continuum of exploitation"
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Maksud, A. K. M., Khandaker Reaz Hossain, Sayma Sayed, and Amit Arulanantham. Mapping of Children Engaged in the Worst Forms of Child Labour in the Supply Chain of the Leather Industry in Bangladesh. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/clarissa.2021.005.
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This mapping of children in the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) in the leather sector of Bangladesh was conducted in May–August 2020. WFCL are not always obvious and, without better understanding of where, why and how it is happening, the exploitation and abuse of children in the workforce in Bangladesh will continue. This mapping provides a detailed assessment of where children are working in the leather supply chain in Bangladesh, what they are doing, how they came to be doing it and what their conditions of work and experiences are. Furthermore, and critically, it evidences the children’s perceptions of themselves and others as child labourers – the jobs and areas of the sector that they feel comprise WFCL, and the jobs they feel are the most difficult or dangerous to do and that children should not have to do.