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Dearing, P. M. Boolean and graph theoretic formulation of the simple plant location problem. Naval Postgraduate School, 1987.

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Ghunaym, Aḥmad. Proceedings of Arab Experts Meetings: Moving ahead from Doha to Cancun : the formulation of the Arab countries' negotiating position. Edited by Center for Economic and Financial Research and Studies (Egypt) and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Egypt). Center for Economic & Financial Research & Studies, CEFRS, 2003.

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Ussishkin, Daniel. The Sources of Collective Action. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190469078.003.0004.

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Chapter 3 demonstrates how during the long nineteenth century the subject of moral forces in battle assumed a central position within tactical and theoretical discourses on war. It suggests that during the final decades of the century these moral forces were largely subsumed under the new concept of morale. On a theoretical level, the chapter grapples with the question of historicity, change, and continuity in the discussion of moral forces, and then explores the ways in which this new concept now linked cohesion and discipline on the field to the fate of a modern, imperial, civil society. The

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Egeberg, Morten, and Jarle Trondal. How Organizational Structure Affects Actual Power Relationships between Territorial Levels of Government. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825074.003.0002.

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This chapter opens by clarifying some main organizational structures within which multilevel public governance takes place. As argued, each organization structure tends to privilege certain interests and this seems to hold as regards ‘upstream’ (policy formulation) processes as well as ‘downstream’ (implementation) processes. Theoretically, the chapter builds on some classic insights from organizational research. Empirically, it draws on studies of international organizations, the European Union, and federal as well as unitary states. The chapter shows how the power of lower-level territories

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Edwards, James. An Instrumental Legal Moralism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828174.003.0005.

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Many writers defend or attack the position nowadays known as legal moralism. According to the most common formulation, legal moralists endorse the following thesis: the fact that φ‎ing is morally wrong is a reason to criminalize φ‎ing. This chapter considers a different kind of legal moralism, here called instrumental legal moralism (ILM). According to ILM: the fact that criminalizing φ‎ing will probably prevent moral wrongs is a reason to criminalize φ‎ing. Section I draws some relevant distinctions. In doing so, it clarifies the difference between ILM and the act-centred legal moralism (ALM)

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Kraft, Ina. Germany. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790501.003.0003.

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This chapter provides an analysis of the changes that German defence has undergone since 1990. Two developments shaped German defence after the end of the cold war: First, the German armed forces changed owing to a radical downsizing, the end of conscription, and the modernization of equipment. Secondly, the style of German defence policy changed from reactive and norm-based in the 1990s to assertive, interest-based, and executive in the 2010s. The culture of military restraint—for decades a characteristic trait of German defence—waned. German military deployments abroad became more frequent a

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Daley, SJ, Brian E. After Chalcedon. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199281336.003.0008.

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The Council of Chalcedon’s definition of the terms in which Nicene orthodoxy should conceive of Christ’s person remained controversial. Leontius of Byzantium argued for the correctness of the Council’s formulation, especially against the arguments of Severus of Antioch, but suggested that more than academic issues were at stake: the debate concerned the lived, permanently dialectical unity between God and humanity. In the mid-seventh century, imperially sponsored efforts to lessen the perceived impact of Chalcedonian language by stressing that Christ’s two natures were activated by “a single,

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Mann, Peter. Near-Integrable Systems. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198822370.003.0024.

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This chapter extends the now familiar Lagrangian formulation to a field theory and covers elementary material in this new setting. The motion of systems with a very large number of degrees of freedom makes it necessary to specify an almost infinite number of discrete coordinates. It is possible to simplify the situation by taking the continuum limit, which replaces the individual coordinates with a continuous function that describes a displacement field, which assigns a displacement vector to each position the system could occupy relative to an equilibrium configuration. The field thus takes a

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Lause, Mark A. Fraternity. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040306.003.0007.

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This chapter examines the spiritualists' efforts to rebuild their movement and their communities in a more meaningful way in the course of the Civil War and its immediate aftermath, while also addressing the issues involved in the Reconstruction of the nation. In particular, it considers the movement's formulation of practical steps in hopes of moving into the real world their thoroughly unrealized vision of a fraternity of free and equal peoples. As the nation strove to reconstitute itself, spiritualism achieved a new level of national organization. War not only destroyed existing structures,

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BLOM-HANSEN, JENS, ANNE SKORKJÃR BINDERKRANTZ, MARTIN BÃKGAARD, DANIEL FINKE, ROMAN SENNINGER, and SÃREN SERRITZLEW. Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198907961.001.0001.

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Abstract Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission is a study of policy formulation in the EU. It focuses on the Commission, which is at the heart of the EU. However, over the past 15–20 years, its position has been challenged. This is due to the growing influence of the European Council, the increased powers of the European Parliament, and the introduction of European agencies. This has led some observers to believe that the Commission’s role and influence are diminishing. However, other observers argue that the Commission remains a highly significant institution. This book qualifies

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Kalantzakos, Sophia. China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190670931.001.0001.

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In 2010, because of a geopolitical incident between China and Japan, seventeen elements of the periodic table known as rare earths became notorious overnight. An “unofficial” and temporary embargo of rare-earth shipments to Japan alerted the world to China’s near monopoly position on the production and export of these indispensable elements for high-tech, defense, and renewable energy sources. A few months before the geopolitical confrontation, China had chosen to substantially cut export quotas of rare earths. Both events sent shockwaves across the markets, and rare-earth prices skyrocketed,

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Ney, Alyssa. Physicalism, Not Scientism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190462758.003.0012.

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Although physicalism has been a received view in the philosophical community over the past half-century, scientism is by contrast a much more maligned position. And yet standard formulations of physicalism, as the view that the world is in totality the way physics says it is, can make physicalism look as if it is simply a reductionistic form of scientism. This chapter argues that attention to more subtle formulations of physicalism reveals the difference between these attitudes.

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Snowdon, Paul F. Essays on Perceptual Experience. Edited by Stephan Blatti. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780191760884.001.0001.

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Abstract A central figure in Anglo-American philosophy for over four decades, Paul Snowdon made seminal contributions to the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and the history of twentieth-century philosophy. Snowdon’s work on perception and perceptual experience—much of which is collected in this volume for the first time—was particularly impactful and firmly established “disjunctivism” as a view with which any theorist working in the field must reckon. In Part 1 (“Issues”), Snowdon traces the contours of the concept of perception, refining his formulation of the disjunctivist positio

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Kambouchner, Denis. Locke and Descartes on Free Will. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815037.003.0009.

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The chapter considers striking parallels in the evolution of Descartes’s and Locke’s thoughts and formulations with regard to the problem of free will, which, from almost opposite starting points, bring them closer together. The ‘family resemblance’ between them (also seen in Malebranche) is due to the recognition of the irreducibility and complexity of the problem concerning the determination of the will—a problem that cannot be solved with simplistic formulations such as ‘the will is necessitated’, or ‘the will is absolutely free’. Both Descartes and Locke carefully distinguish between vario

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King, Daniel. Viewing and Emotional Conflict in Akhilleus Tatios. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810513.003.0012.

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Akhilleus Tatios’ novel, Leukippe and Kleitophon, is famously obsessed with the formulations of viewing and the gaze. This has traditionally been seen as reinforcing some of the gender hierarchies of the narrative as a whole. Building on the work of Morales (and others), this chapter argues that Akhilleus Tatios constructs a conflicted gaze in which the emotional impact of viewing trauma is caught between the viewer’s pleasure at the image and the emotional distress that it might also induce. Akhilleus Tatios’ narrative constantly questions and problematizes how viewers position themselves in

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Crepaz-Keay, David, K. W. M. Fulford, and C. W. van Staden. Putting Both a Person and People First. Edited by John Z. Sadler, K. W. M. Fulford, and Cornelius Werendly van Staden. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732365.013.59.

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We draw on recent work on peer-supported recovery to explore the roles respectively of values-based practice and of its African-enhanced form,Batho Pele, in co-production and other positive practice initiatives in mental health. Interdependence, as the aim of peer-supported recovery, is set in context first with the dependence of asylum hospital care and then with the independence of community care. Each has positive and negative aspects reflecting the diversity of values in mental health. We then show how the resources of values-based practice support effective engagement with diversity of va

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Wolff, J. E. The Metaphysics of Quantities. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198837084.001.0001.

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This book articulates and defends a new and original answer to two questions: What are physical quantities and what makes them quantitative? This novel position—substantival structuralism—says that quantitativeness is an irreducible feature of particular attributes, and quantitative attributes are best understood as substantival structured spaces. Physical quantities like mass, momentum, or temperature play an important role in formulating laws of nature and in testing scientific theories. It is therefore important to have a clear philosophical understanding of what makes these attributes spec

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Scott, David. The Indian Ocean as India’s Ocean. Edited by David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743538.013.34.

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This chapter discusses India’s role in the Indian Ocean and the role that the Indian Ocean plays in Indian foreign policy. In effect this represents a ‘look south’ policy for developing India’s sea power in its extended neighbourhood. Six sections look in turn at India’s official frameworks, geopolitics and geoeconomics, location and oceanic holdings, blue-water naval projective capabilities, diplomatic position in the Indian Ocean, and relations with extra-regional powers. The chapter concludes by looking beyond the present into the near future where India will probably maintain and extend it

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Nelson, Todd H., ed. Bringing Stalin Back In. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666986044.

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While Joseph Stalin is commonly reviled in the West as a murderous tyrant who committed egregious human rights abuses against his own people, in Russia he is often positively viewed as the symbol of Soviet-era stability and state power. How can there be such a disparity in perspectives? Utilizing an ethnographic approach, extensive interview data, and critical discourse analysis, this book examines the ways that the political elite in Russia are able to control and manipulate historical discourse about the Stalin period in order to advance their own political objectives. Appropriating the Stal

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Mori, Masanori. Clinical Signs of Impending Death in Cancer Patients (DRAFT). Edited by Nathan A. Gray and Thomas W. LeBlanc. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190658618.003.0039.

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In this prospective, longitudinal, cohort study, the authors systematically characterized the frequency, onset, and diagnostic performance of 62 clinical signs for impending death in 357 advanced cancer patients admitted to two acute palliative care units. “Early signs” (e.g., Palliative Performance Scale <20%, Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale ≤–2) had a high frequency over the last 3 days but low positive predictive ratios (LRs) for impending death within 3 days. In contract, “late signs” (e.g., death rattle, respiration with mandibular movement, peripheral cyanosis) had a low frequency b

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Bullock, Kim, and John J. Barry. Psychiatric Factors. Edited by Barbara A. Dworetzky and Gaston C. Baslet. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190265045.003.0003.

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Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) is a multifactorial illness requiring a personalized biopsychosocial (BPS) formulation across the lifespan to understand its causes. This chapter reviews the current evidence focusing on predisposing, precipitating, perpetuating, and prognostic variables (4P’s), merging them into a chronologically based 4P-BPS model. Positive PNES randomized controlled trials suggest that self-efficacy and illness beliefs, avoidance behaviors, trigger sensitization, and comorbid psychiatric disorders are important etiological variables to target during treatment. Epidem

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Fraenkel, Ernst. National-Socialism and Communal Natural Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716204.003.0007.

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This chapter describes in detail how the National-Socialist rejection of rational Natural Law aroused all social groups for whom rational Natural Law was a positive influence. The problem, however, for those social groups was that the conception of Natural Law had thus far lacked precision as far as the term “law” was concerned. The chapter questions the difference between societal and communal Natural Law, which has been suggested since as early as the 17th century. The chapter presents a number of features of the ideal types of the two man forms of Natural Law. Discussing the concrete subtle

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Como, David R. The Seeking Way. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199541911.003.0016.

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This chapter explores the outer edges of puritan religiosity during the 1640s, examining different species of “anti-formalism” that emerged in the period. First, it reconstructs a strain of thought maintaining that “forms”—or contestable niceties of doctrine and discipline—should be subordinated to godly solidarity, a position that came to sit near the center of the emerging “independent” coalition. The chapter then analyzes more extreme pietistic variants, which called into question the validity of all “forms” or religious observances—even to the point of denying the existence of any true chu

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Priest, Graham. Buddhist Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190499778.003.0005.

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This essay formulates an ethics based largely on Buddhist principles. However, it does so without assuming views for which, arguably, there is no real evidence, such as rebirth. In light of this, it is argued that the good for a Buddhist ethics plausible in a contemporary Western context cannot be simply a negative one, of eliminating suffering. The positive good to be promoted is that of peace of mind. We should be concerned to eliminate all troubled mental states, given Buddhist views that the distinction between myself and another has no substance. According to this formulation, therefore,

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Simpson, Barbara. George Herbert Mead (1863–1931). Edited by Jenny Helin, Tor Hernes, Daniel Hjorth, and Robin Holt. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669356.013.0017.

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During his lifetime, George Herbert Mead published more than a hundred critical commentaries, reports, and original articles exploring how consciousness and mind arise in human conduct. Even so, his seminal thinking about the social processes of human experience remains significantly under-utilized in the organizational literature. In this chapter I argue that the synthesis of intersubjectivity and temporality, which Mead achieves by using the notion of sociality, offers an unparalleled access, both theoretically and methodologically, to the dynamics of emergent practice in organizations. In p

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Gailmard, Sean. Mathew D. McCubbins, Roger G. Noll, and Barry R. Weingast, “Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control”. Edited by Martin Lodge, Edward C. Page, and Steven J. Balla. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199646135.013.1.

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This chapter examines the perspective introduced by Mathew McCubbins, Roger Noll, and Barry Weingast (collectively called “McNollgast”) to explain the origins and effects of the administrative procedures employed by public bureaucracies in the formulation and implementation of public policy. Founded on concepts of positive political theory, this perspective essentially argues that Congress is quite effective at influencing bureaucratic agencies to pursue policies in its own interests, a theory known as “Congressional dominance.” The chapter reviews and contextualizes McNollgast’s seminal argum

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Henham, Ralph. The Relevance of Globalization and Notions of Transition. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198718895.003.0004.

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This chapter considers the global and comparative dimensions of sentencing and explains their significance for developing a more positive relationship between sentencing policy and social justice. It assesses the influence of globalization on the formulation of sentencing policy in England and Wales, before focusing on the wider problems of drawing comparisons and policy transfer. It then reflects on sentencing as a transitional concept, arguing that notions of transitional justice offer some valuable insights in conceptualizing sentencing policy’s relationship to social justice, particularly

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Davidson, Kate M. Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199997510.003.0017.

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CBT for personality disorders (CBTpd) uses a developmental model that places emphasis on core beliefs concerned with self-identity and other people that have arisen in childhood and behavioral strategies to compensate, avoid, or cope with these core beliefs. The therapy is less intensive than other therapies for personality disorder. A narrative formulation engages individuals in therapy and increases psychological understanding of problems, such as how core beliefs developed through adverse events in childhood led to emotional and behavioral patterns that are negative and often self-destructi

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Brinkmann, Svend. Philosophies of Qualitative Research. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190247249.001.0001.

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This book is about the different philosophical paradigms and ideas that influence qualitative research. Its aim is to discuss and evaluate the ways that philosophical positions inform qualitative research as currently practiced. Unlike other contributions to the field, this book takes a historical perspective and shows how the philosophical ideas have evolved and influenced qualitative research in previous times and today. Today, qualitative researchers often report on their philosophical commitments (if they do so at all) in a separate section of their papers, but this book is written from th

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Rosati, Gianpiero. Narcissus and Pygmalion. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852438.001.0001.

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That nature imitates art is not a paradox distilled from Oscar Wilde’s pen, but the bold formulation of a Roman poet, Ovid (43 BCE–17 CE), which marks a radical turning point in ancient aesthetics, founded on the principle of mimesis. By enhancing phantasia, the artist’s creative imagination, Ovid opens up unexplored perspectives for future European literature and art. Through Narcissus and Pygmalion, figures of illusion and desire, who are the protagonists of two major episodes of the Metamorphoses, this book sheds light on some crucial junctions in the history of reception and aesthetics. Wi

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Chukwuma, Helen O., and Chioma Carol Opara, eds. Legacies of Departed African Women Writers. Lexington Books, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666997019.

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Legacies of Departed African Women Writers: Matrix of Creativity and Power proffers varied perspectives of the invaluable contributions of ten deceased African writers from all across Africa who have cleared the path to a vibrant African feminist arena. The dynamics of change gleaned from both their textual and contextual concerns unarguably set the pace for contemporary African women writers who have striven to follow in the footsteps of their literary mothers as well as their oral foremothers. This book, edited by Helen Chukwuma and Chioma Carol Opara, shows the collective testament of ample

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Horing, Norman J. Morgenstern. Graphene. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791942.003.0012.

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Chapter 12 introduces Graphene, which is a two-dimensional “Dirac-like” material in the sense that its energy spectrum resembles that of a relativistic electron/positron (hole) described by the Dirac equation (having zero mass in this case). Its device-friendly properties of high electron mobility and excellent sensitivity as a sensor have attracted a huge world-wide research effort since its discovery about ten years ago. Here, the associated retarded Graphene Green’s function is treated and the dynamic, non-local dielectric function is discussed in the degenerate limit. The effects of a quan

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Kamynin, Vladimir. Management by long-term development of a large company. LCC MAKS Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m2451.978-5-317-06688-8.

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The new methodological approach to study of market leadership which is based on long-term company development is developed in the monograph. The proposed methodological solution takes into account the manifestation of a complex of factors which are characteristic of world benchmark companies, as well as factors which are necessary to update the company's life cycle and determine the company's competitiveness in the conditions of knowledge economy. A system of indicators which are indicating the company's ability to occupy leading market positions and achieve other goals of various content has

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Haasen, Adolf, and Gordon F. Shea. New Corporate Cultures That Motivate. Praeger, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400690785.

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This breakthrough analysis of several advanced, exceptionally productive, and motivating organizational cultures is based on interviews with employees—from shop floor workers to CEOs—to discover precisely what makes them so effective. These positive case studies, illuminated by the executive perspective in each situation, tell fascinating stories of how these exciting cultures were formed, developed, or evolved to meet the challenges created by the firms' growth and success. Haasen and Shea also examine the recent history of four negative examples of conventional organizations that have implod

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Eagle, Lynne, Stephan Dahl, and David Low. Ethical issues in social marketing. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198717690.003.0011.

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Many social marketers assume that because they are focusing on positive behaviour change they may expect fewer ethical issues arising from their work than conventional, commercial marketing. However, such a view is sadly too simplistic. This chapter focuses on the ethical issues facing social marketing. It argues that social marketers face an even greater potential for ethical issues and gives examples of these by focusing on targeting, stigmatization, victim blaming, coercion, and the use of financial incentives, among others. Recognizing the manifold potential for ethical challenges, and the

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Allen, Douglas. Gandhi after 9/11. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199491490.001.0001.

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The author sees Gandhi, in his writings and his life, as offering the most profound and influential theory, philosophy, and engaged practices of ahimsa. Embracing Gandhi’s insightful critiques of modernity, the book sees his approach as a creative and challenging catalyst to rethink our positions today. As expressed in the book’s title, we live in a post-9/11 world that is defined by widespread physical, psychological, economic, political, cultural, religious, technological, and environmental violence and that is increasingly unsustainable. The author’s central claim is Gandhi’s writings, phil

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Nowak, Dariusz, ed. Production–operation management. The chosen aspects. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Poznaniu, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18559/978-83-8211-059-3.

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The aim of the e-book is to present the theoretical, cognitive and practical aspects of the essence and complexity of operational management in a production company. The presented modern production methods together with the challenges and problems of contemporary enterprises should better help to understand the issues of sustainable development, with particular emphasis on waste. The book consists of six chapters devoted to relevant and topic issues relating to the core business of an industrial enterprise. Chapter 1 The nature of the industrial enterprise is an introduction to further conside

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Dickinson, Colby. Theodor W. Adorno. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423632.003.0024.

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In his somewhat controversial book Remnants of Auschwitz, Agamben makes brief reference to Theodor Adorno’s apparently contradictory remarks on perceptions of death post-Auschwitz, positions that Adorno had taken concerning Nazi genocidal actions that had seemed also to reflect something horribly errant in the history of thought itself. There was within such murderous acts, he had claimed, a particular degradation of death itself, a perpetration of our humanity bound in some way to affect our perception of reason itself. The contradictions regarding Auschwitz that Agamben senses to be latent w

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Phillips, Jim. Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474452311.001.0001.

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Throughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book shows that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland’s economic, social and political history. It highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement demands for political-constitutional reforms that helped create the conditions for the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The book examines the moral economy, which prioritised communal security and collective voice. Three different generations of Scottish coal

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Bradford, Alfred S. Leonidas and the kings of Sparta. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400678288.

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This pivotal history of the kings of Sparta not only describes their critical leadership in war, but also documents the waxing and waning of their social, political, and religious powers in the Spartan state. The Spartans have seemingly never gone out of interest, serving as mythic icons who exemplify fearlessness and an unwillingness to give in against impossible odds. Yet most are unaware of the true nature of the Spartan leaders—the fact that the kings maintained their position of power for 600 years by their willingness to compromise, even if it meant giving up some of their power, for exa

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Schulz, Michael. Between Resistance, Sharia Law, and Demo-Islamic Politics. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881810269.

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Despite the fact that many researchers have focused on Hamas’ armed resistance activities, surprisingly few have theorised about the political choices and dilemmas that Hamas has faced in the context of the changing overarching conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. This study aims to show, theoretically, how context-dependent Hamas is when formulating its resistance and Demo-Islamic practise and that this occurs in interrelations with key actors of the conflict. This study also presents important new empirical data that, in part, also challenges previous research. Hamas is one of the ver

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Hitt, Michael A., Susan E. Jackson, Salvador Carmona, Leonard Bierman, Christina E. Shalley, and Douglas Michael Wright, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Strategy Implementation. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190650230.001.0001.

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Selecting the best strategy is important if a firm is to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage, but many strategies fail not because they are improperly formulated but because they are poorly implemented. Strategy implementation is among the most important and most challenging issues with which top executives must deal, and effective implementation can help firms achieve high performance. Therefore, a greater understanding of the critical dimensions of strategy implementation is needed. This handbook is designed to provide a deeper understanding of topics important for the implementatio

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Vidigal, Geraldo, and Kathleen Claussen, eds. The Sustainability Revolution in International Trade Agreements. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780191994470.001.0001.

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Abstract Provisions on ‘sustainability’ or ‘sustainable development’, once seen as aspirational and relatively innocuous, are changing the face of international trade agreements. An assessment of negotiations and agreed texts shows that debates around, and provisions establishing, sustainability commitments are now a mainstay of trade negotiations, with recent agreements dedicating entire chapters to this field. Besides the standard exceptions that preserve domestic policy space, contemporary trade agreements feature positive commitments on environmental preservation, respect for labour standa

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Baker, Chris. Obsolete. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781399416634.

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The world needs changing – that much is clear. But how best to do it? Change how you vote? Get out and protest? Have an argument?The fact is that the power sits in your pocket. Changing how we spend our money has more potential to change the world than almost anything else we can do with our time on this planet. Consumer spending accounts for over 60% of GDP across the world and it will hit a staggering $77 trillion a year by 2029. But the vast majority of this money currently goes to businesses that are fuelling problems, through their packaging, formulations and practices, the same companies

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