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- Post-fire assessments, methodology, and equations for directly determining wood's residual flexural properties.(Statistical table)
- Abstract Currently, because field-ready approaches are not available, individual wood members used in light-frame construction are typically replaced when fire reduces the total dimension of a member by approximately 1/4 inch or more in depth. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- COMMUNITY SPORTS
- Byline: The Register-Guard NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS To submit events The deadline for community sports notes and announcements is Thursday at noon. Submit listings to: Gil Hulin, P.O. Box 10188, Eugene OR 97440, e-mail them to ghulin@guardnet.com or fax them to 687-6674. ...
- Research articles 2004-01-12
- Nondestructive evaluation techniques for assessing modulus of elasticity and stiffness of small-diameter logs. (Wood Engineering).
- XIPING WANG (*) ROBERT J. ROSS (*) JOHN R. ERICKSON (*) ABSTRACT Many of the forests in the United States have large areas that contain trees of small diameter, mixed species, and undefined quality. Because these...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- Where Continuity Meets Inertia: Anxiety of Influence Weighs Down A Parley on Jewish-American Lit
- Sharlet, Jeffrey Forward 11-02-2001 Where Continuity Meets Inertia: Anxiety of Influence Weighs Down A Parley on Jewish-American Lit Jeffrey Sharlet is a former editor of Pakn Treger, the magazine of the National Yiddish Book Center, and a senior writer for...
- Research articles 2001-11-02
- Fidelity Unveils myPlan Guidance Program to Counter Nation's Planning and Savings Inertia; Retirement Planning Is No. 1 Cited Planning Activity Americans Wished They Were Better At Doing
- BOSTON -- Fidelity Investments today announced the launch of myPlanSM, a new guidance program designed to help individual investors and employees break through the inertia associated with retirement planning and savings and take actionable steps towards achieving their financial goals.
- Research articles 2006-10-24
- NATO agency combats inertia
- Europe
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- CFRP impeller improves vehicle acceleration
- A turbocharger with a carbon fibre reinforced plastic CFRP compressor impeller has been developed by Japanese firm Nissan Motor Co to help improve acceleration response. The use of the CFRP impeller reduces the moment of inertia by 27% compared with that of conventional aluminium alloy impellers...
- Research articles 1995-07-01
- On track at the Indy 500 - redesigned track at Indianapolis 500
- After years of potentially deadly smash-ups, a redesigned track keeps drivers in the race. At the Indianapolis 500, tradition reigns supreme. The race is always on Memorial Day weekend. It's always preceded by a stirring rendition of "Back Home Again in Indiana." And before the checkered...
- Research articles 1993-10-08
- Initial digital results please cable operators. (subscribers' response to digital cable service)
- LOS ANGELES - Cable operators were cautiously pleased by the initial results of their digital-tier rollouts, saying that penetration has reached 5 percent to 13 percent in less than a year. Operators presented their findings here last week at the LOS ANGELES...
- Research articles 1998-03-23
- Strategic Divestments in Family Firms: Role of Family Structure and Community Culture
- Timely acquisition and divestment of resources is essential for sustaining the competitive advantage and longevity of family firms. A combination of past successes, emotional attachments, and path dependencies can lead to extensive inertia toward divestment in these firms. This paper develops a framework to understand the influence of community culture...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- When Everyone Agrees, But Nothing Changes: Aligning People, Incentives, and Knowledge to Overcome Organizational Inertia
- The study explores aligning people, incentives, and knowledge to overcome organizational inertia. Senior executives continually lament the amount of time they spend wrestling with organizational problems rather than building their business. From the CEO on down, business leaders routinely express variations on the same fundamental themes that are discussed in...
- White papers 2003-01-15
- Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance
- This paper explores the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to Greenfield investment financed with an SEO. The paper develops a...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Deconstructing the Art of Central Banking
- This paper proposes a markedly different transmission mechanism from monetary policy to the macro economy, focusing on how policy changes nominal inertia in the Phillips curve. Using recent theoretical developments, the paper examines the properties of a small, estimated monetary model distinguishing four monetary regimes employed since the late 1950s....
- White papers 2004-10-01
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- Are autopilot 401(k)s next big thing? Plan providers want to fight participant inertia.(News)
- Byline: Rick Miller CHICAGO - The next generation of 401k plans is attempting to make saving for retirement about as easy as doing nothing. Some top retirement plan providers are offering or plan to offer a ...
- Research articles 2004-08-30
- Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance
- The Idea in Brief Most companies' strategies deliver only 63% of their promised financial value. Why? Leaders press for better execution when they really need a sounder strategy. Or they craft a new strategy when execution is the true weak spot. How to avoid these errors? View strategic...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- Easier Said Than Done
- It's not hard to think up how a firm, any firm, could be better organized. The trick—and it's a big one—is to actually make the transition to the new organizational structure. For one thing, you have to overcome the workload inertia of just doing things the old way because "we're...
- News items 2009-08-28
- Managing Change
- Change, as they say, is the only certainty. Yet most people seek constancy, and struggle continuously to prevent, or adjust to change. At best, these people arrive at a place of "dynamic equilibrium" where the ebbs and flows of life do not result in radical change but allow them to...
- Articles 2007-11-09
- Building Breakthrough Businesses Within Established Organizations
- The Idea in Brief Why did toy and gaming giant Hasbro unload its new software division at a rock-bottom price just five years after launching it? Like many other established companies, Hasbro learned the hard...
- Articles 2008-01-04
- Long-Term Growth Trends in Private Label Market Shares
- Research has shown that most consumer product markets are in long-run competitive equilibrium. In most categories, a given brand's market share is stationary, showing remarkable stability over long time horizons (10 years). This empirical generalization has been attributed to both consumer inertia and competitive reaction elasticities that lead to offsetting...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Know Your Competition
- From the executive summary: ‘Sometimes it is easy to identify and combat competition. Competition can be classified into three general categories: direct competitors, indirect competitors, and inertia.' The three types of competitions need to be tackled differently. The process calls for designing separate marketing and advertising plans to combat them....
- White papers 2003-01-01
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