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Shock attenuation during heel-strike, forefoot-strike, and spring-boot running
… mechanisms of shock attenuation (SA) during heel-strike (HS), forefoot strike (FFS), and spring-boot (SB) running; Participants (n = 10) ran at 3.83 m·s-1 while head and leg impact acceleration, SA, and ankle and knee energy absorption were recorded and analyzed across the impact phase during …
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Bird strike risk assessment at commercial airports: sub-model development accounting for strike occurrence and severity with strike contributory factors
… collisions between birds and airplanes, or bird strikes, pose a substantial safety and financial threat to the public through issues such as delays, airplane damage, passenger injuries or deaths, and environmental impacts. Current records indicate that an average of 19 bird strikes are reported …
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Lucky Strike Branch Library
This thesis project is an examination of how design can reinvigorate interest in reading through the creation of a branch library. The primary focus of this study is to generate a space that successfully binds intellectual interests, social and economic groups to re-establish community.
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Mississippi’s First Statewide Teachers’ Strike
… led to Mississippi’s first statewide teachers’ strike in 1985 because of the Southeastern pay average clause recommending that the teachers’ pay should reach the average of the southeastern states, if possible. The teachers’ associations in Mississippi used this clause to lobby and promote …
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Unprotected strike action in South Africa
The right to strike is an important element of collective bargaining in South Africa. While protected strike action provides significant protection to employees and employers alike, unprotected strike action does not. Given the potential adverse consequences of engaging in unprotected strike action …
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Public Employees and the Right to Strike
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317356.pdf: 11921131 bytes, checksum: eb4845e2eb7077dd376bebbab29691c5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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A biomechanical study of a karate strike.
Thesis. 1977. B.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.
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Guidelines for the development of strike contingency plans
… was to develop guidelines for the formulation of strike contingency plans to assist school administrators and boards of school trustees during a teacher strike. The study was designed to secure and evaluate strike contingency plan items currently being utilized by school administrators as well as …
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Adolescent smoking cessation: Not just a lucky strike!
Contains fulltext : 90720.pdf ( ) (Open Access)
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A critique on strike ballots in South Africa
… no express provision that permits that a strike or lock-out may be interdicted because a trade union or employers' organisation has failed to hold such a ballot. However, the amendment, if properly enforced, should bring about a greater form of responsibility and administration prior to …
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The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Strike: A Retrospective Analysis
… Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike of 1981. The study examines the perceptions of the former controllers to determine their feelings toward the justification for going on strike over 13 years ago. This is relevant in light of recent events including the lifting of the ban …
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Optimization models for allocation of air strike assets with persistence
… addresses the critical process of assigning strike aircraft to targets once the targets have been identified: How do we optimally employ available aircraft and weapons on the current set of targets, and how can we modify a previously optimized assignment list to face changes in the tactical …
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Scaled electromechanical modeling of the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter
… fulfilled all of the DoD's needs; the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The JSF was produced in three different variants, the first and simplest being the F-35A CTOL (Conventional Take-off, Landing), designed especially for the Air Force. In order to explore the underlying principles of the JSF's design …
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A comparison of coalition bargaining and the selective strike technique
… the genesis and implementation of the selective strike technique as used by the United Transportation Union against railroad managements, and compared the effectiveness of this technique with coalition bargaining as has been used in other industries for the purpose of gaining greater equality …
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Structures Strike Back: Their Significance for Our Models of Opinion Formation
Why do our models of opinion formation work in some situations but fail in others? In this dissertation, I explain that our models of opinion formation work in some cases but fail in others because of the structural level variations that are not accounted for when these models are designed only …
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