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Downturn in Business Activity
Busch, Georg M. - In: WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports) 65 (1992) 12, pp. 611-621
Since the middle of the year the downturn in the Austrian business cycle has become clearly visible. Exports and industrial output are receding under the impact of the recession in Europe and the effective revaluation of the schilling. Domestic demand has a stabilizing influence benefitting...
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Hazards and mechanism of sinkholes on Kabudar Ahang and Famenin plains of Hamadan, Iran
Karimi, Haji; Taheri, Kamal - In: Natural Hazards 55 (2010) 2, pp. 481-499
A large number of collapse sinkholes have been developed in the period 1989–2004 in Famenin and Kabudar Ahang plains … sand productive wells. Increasing effective stresses have mainly caused the formation of dropout sinkholes or cover-collapse …
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Will progress in science and technology avert or accelerate global collapse? A critical analysis and policy recommendations
Huesemann, Michael; Huesemann, Joyce - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 10 (2008) 6, pp. 787-825
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Diversity of fragments in the collapse of brittle solids11This work was supported in part by CNPq, FAPESP, and FINEP (Brazilian Government Agencies).
Brito, V.P.; Gomes, M.A.F.; Souza, F.A.O.; Adhikari, … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 259 (1998) 3, pp. 227-234
An experimental study of fragmentation of brittle solids under the application of repeated impulsive force is made, emphasizing the behavior of the diversity of fragments. Several scaling relations involving diversity and number of fragments are obtained from experiments and the results are...
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Equilibres et effondrement dans le cadre d'un cycle naturel
Germain, Marc - In: Brussels Economic Review 55 (2012) 4, pp. 427-455
economy and those that are likely to destabilise andlead it to collapse, we study different cases depending on the form of (i …
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The Collapse of a European Bank in the Financial Crisis: An Analysis from Stakeholder and Ethical Perspectives
Fassin, Yves; Gosselin, Derrick - In: Journal of Business Ethics 102 (2011) 2, pp. 169-191
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АНАЛИЗ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ НАСИЛИЯ В ПОЛИТИКЕ
МИХАЙЛОВИЧ, ПОЛЯКОВ ЕВГЕНИЙ - In: Общество: политика, экономика, … (2012) 3, pp. 31-38
В данной статье рассмотрена проблема применения насилия массовыми движениями для достижения политических целей в ходе противоборства с государством....
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Oil supply limits and the continuing financial crisis
Tverberg, Gail E. - In: Energy 37 (2012) 1, pp. 27-34
by Joseph Tainter in The Collapse of Complex Societies (1990) or an adverse decline situation similar to adverse … countries will continue to decline, as emerging markets consume a greater share of the total oil that is available. If this … including significant debt defaults. The financial crisis may eventually worsen, to resemble a collapse situation as described …
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Modeling the dynamics of disaster evolution along causality networks with cycle chains
Li, Jian; Chen, Changkun - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 401 (2014) C, pp. 251-264
A model for describing the evolution process of disasters, especially for disaster causality networks with cycle chains, has been developed. In the model, the impacts from the causative nodes, self-recovery behaviors, repair by government, internal noise and impacts outside the system have been...
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Predicting the geotechnical performance of Lisan Marl using finite element analysis, Dead Sea area
Mansour, Ziad; Chik, Zamri; Taha, Mohd - In: Natural Hazards 54 (2010) 3, pp. 931-947
This paper investigates the changes in Lisan Marl properties upon leaching the soluble minerals and collapse potential …
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