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Interdependent Impacts of Disruption Management Strategies: Risk-Based Applications to Port Closures, Natural Disasters, and Oil Spills
(2012)
Recent disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan disabled production facilities, created supply shortages, disrupted business operations, and altered ...
Investigation and Modeling of Frictional Boundary Conditions in Oblique Cutting of Aluminum Alloys
(2012)
Friction at the cutting tool interface has been studied for 60 years, yet an accurate model of friction is largely unavailable, especially in operations such as turning, where the interface is inaccessible due the continuous ...
SELF-DUAL REPRESENTATIONS WITH VECTORS FIXED UNDER AN IWAHORI SUBGROUP
(2012)
Let $G$ be the group of $F$-points of a split connected reductive $F$-group over a non-Archimedean local field $F$ of characteristic 0. Let $\pi$ be an irreducible smooth self-dual representation of $G$. The space $W$ of ...
Electromyographic, mechanomyographic, and peak torque responses during repeated concentric isokinetic muscle actions with eyes-open versus eyes-closed
(2012)
The purpose of this study was to compare the peak torque and electromyographic (EMG) and mechanomyographic (MMG) amplitude and mean frequency (MNF) responses during fatiguing isokinetic muscle actions for eyes-open versus ...
Microbial Community Analysis of a Coastal Salt Marsh Affected by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(PLos One, 2012-07-18)
Coastal salt marshes are highly sensitive wetland ecosystems that can sustain long-term impacts from anthropogenic events such as oil spills. In this study, we examined the microbial communities of a Gulf of Mexico coastal ...
Acculturation and spousal support for foreign wives: A qualitative analysis of the Internet blogs of Taiwanese women
(2012)
This study, a phenomenological inquiry of spousal support for foreign wives living in their husbands' country, examined the blogs of Taiwanese women in Japan. Eleven blogs written by 10 Taiwanese wives were purposefully ...
Differential Effect of Inter-Role Conflict on Proactive Individual's Experience of Burnout
(2012)
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This study examined how proactive personality interacts with inter-role conflict, measured as work–family conflict and family–work conflict, to predict burnout, measured as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, ...
A STUDY ON PARENTS' AND EDUCATORS' PERCEPTION ON INCLUDING YOUNG CHILDREN WITH HIGH-FUNCTIONING AUTISM IN GENERAL EDUCATION SETTINGS
(2012)
The practice of inclusion, even the term itself, has been the subject of controversy over the last several decades. "Inclusion" has many interpretations, depending upon the student, educator, and setting. In my dissertation, ...
World-system position and democracy, 1972–2008
(International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2012-10-01)
Global levels of democracy are higher than ever before, and democratic principles are now institutionalized as a world cultural norm. Nevertheless, a number of countries continue to feature governing systems that restrict ...