The Palestinian solidarity movement has made significant gains since the onset of the Second Palestinian Intifada. Over the last five years, a new generation of Palestinian solidarity activists has mobilized in the streets, campuses, and schools across North America. Among the left and progressive movements, there is broad acceptance of...
The health insurance and financial-services industries in the United States are converging as consumers take a more active role in saving for their own health care. The movement is shaking up the health insurance industry, leading to once-in-a-generation profit opportunities but also to big competitive threats from financial-services and benefits...
Although significant response time deficits both reaction time and movement time have been identified in studies of patients with Parkinson's Disease PD, few attempts have been made to evaluate the use of these measures in screening for PD. Measures of chronometric speed, assessed without the use of biomechanically complex movements,...
This paper describes a novel experiment that measures skin movement with respect to the flexional motion of a hand. The study was based on MR images in conjunction with CAD techniques. The MR images of the hand were captured in 3 different postures with surface markers. The surface markers attached...
This article examines and evaluates the strategy of inclusion used by the environmental movement in the United States. This paper tries to explain why it is that the United States was the pioneer of environmental policy in the 1970s, but has since become the international laggard. Given the changed position...
This study investigates the differences in the prices of shares of stocks that trade simultaneously in different markets around the world. Specifically, it compares the daily prices of American Depositary Receipts ADRs and other types of cross-listed shares in U.S. markets relative to their home-market shares on a currency-adjusted basis...
This paper demonstrates the advantages of inertial/caliper survey for monitoring and prevention of pipeline movement for a variety of applications. It presents examples of detected wrinkles, buckles and large strains induced by pipeline movement that required mitigation to avert pipeline failure. It shows a history of monitoring pipeline strain, movement...
A significant movement is afoot to implement integrated systems to help manage all facets of a sourcing relationship, from contract management to collaboration between sourcing teams and end users to real-time monitoring of a vendor's service delivery performance. A new generation of automated tools is enabling both clients and vendors...
"This article identifies the factors that change the stock of market housing affordable to low-income households. During the past 15 years policy makers and academics have concentrated on the shortage of good-quality affordable housing for low-income households. Among the triggers of that interest are the increase in homelessness, the...
For some decades now, the accumulating grievances of consumers (i.e small users of goods and services) have been gathering and shaping themselves into a striking force – a movement for which we have coined the name "consumerism.". The movement has become sizable enough to attract a wide assortment of new,...
This article examines how social movements contribute to institutional change and the creation of new industries. One builds on current efforts to bridge institutional and social movement perspectives in sociology and develop the concept of field frame to study how industries are shaped by social structures of meanings and resources...
This paper shows that the organizations and social movement's literatures have developed serendipitously along parallel paths and, as a result, share insights regarding several important issues. In particular, there are strong similarities in terms of the mechanisms by which organizations and social movements develop and change. This paper articulates the...
The automotive industry is moving its entire supply chain online at a faster rate than many other industries. The movement has been driven, in part, by the rapid adoption and growth of the Covisint online supplier exchange. But Covisint isn't the only game in town and at least one major...
Extensive preparation is necessary for a full physical inventory. It is not practical to complete this preparation before each daily cycle count. It is equally difficult to conduct cycle counts only when a business is closed and there is no material movement. After all, cycle counting should be performed every...
By coming together in groups of 10, 30, or 300, small companies are gaining the benefits of bigness. And it's happening everywhere. From baseball teams to carpet retailers to network-services entrepreneurs, small players are uniting for a common good. The movement has even marched into other countries. Some groups get...
Trade unions are increasingly reaching out beyond the traditional workplace, whether at enterprise or industry level. They are connecting with other elements of civil society and building alliances and partnerships at community, national, regional, international and global levels. The broader social agenda of the labor movement could be advanced only...
New organizational forms face formidable obstacles in that new roles have to be learned, external ties to supporters are often lacking, and they often must rely on social relations among strangers. As a result, new organizations suffer from a liability of newness and often fail. But, some new organizational forms...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Slow Food Nation Scheduled for Labor Day Weekend in San FranciscoC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Slow Food Nation, the largest celebration of American food in history, will take place in San Francisco over Labor Day weekend, August 29 to September...
Evaluating the reliability of a transportation network often involves an intensive simulation exercise to randomly generate and evaluate different possible network states. This paper proposes an algorithm to approximate the network reliability which minimizes the use of such simulation procedure. The algorithm will dissect and classify the...
What type of emotional transition is experienced by professional dancers who face the end of their career? What does this journey imply? This article discusses the transition experiences of two case studies out of a total sample of fourteen (N=14) international professional ballet dancers who left their...
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