Geosynthetic-reinforced soil (GRS) technology has been used worldwide since the 1970s. An extension to its development is application as a bridge abutment, which was initially developed by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in United States, called GRS—integrated system (GRS-IBS). Now, there are several variations of this technology, includes GRS Integral Bridge (GRS-IB) Japan 2000s. In stud...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically review the existing research on intersection between war and international business (IB) map out a future agenda. Design/methodology/approach Drawing corporate examples extant literature within IB, political science relations, provides an introduction main concepts war, IB critical Findings multiple strands war-related in generally reveals unde...

The history and current state of Information Behaviour (IB) research is described, along with the particular influence Professor Tom Wilson in development field. Changes use theories methodologies are considered, future topics interdisciplinary impact IB research.

Despite its potential, corporate entrepreneurship, and related concept, intrapreneurial behavior (IB), is a relatively recent area of interest for researchers in tourism hospitality. In addition, the attention given to contribution IB individual-level performance surprisingly scarce due extant research focusing largely on firm-level performance. We address those gaps using sample 95 hospitality...

The immersed boundary (IB) method is an approach to problems of fluid-structure interaction in which an elastic structure is immersed in a viscous incompressible fluid. The IB formulation of such problems uses a Lagrangian description of the structure and an Eulerian description of the fluid. It is well known that some versions of the IB method can suffer from poor volume conservation. Methods ...

This editorial introduces the literature on informal institutions and international business (IB) as well Special Issue. Informal serve invisible threads that connect fabric of social groupings, making them a critical element in study IB, but also especially challenging to capture both theoretically empirically. As result, there has been limited work topic, lack clarity how conceptualize measur...

BACKGROUND The use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) has contributed to the depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer resulting in serious health concerns. Ipratropium bromide/salbutamol sulphate CFC-pressurized metered-dose inhalers (IB/SAL-CFC pMDI) have been in widespread use for many years without any apparent ill consequences. This combination has now been reformulated using the hydrofluoroal...

Although the microflora associated with oral mucositis initiated by cytotoxic therapy is not well characterized, several studies suggest that reduction of the microbial load in the oral cavity has some clinical benefit. The MICs of IB-367, a synthetic protegrin analog, ranged from 0.13 to 64 microgram/ml for gram-positive bacteria (Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus sanguis, Streptococcus saliv...

MHC Ib-restricted CD8+ T cells have been implicated in host defense against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection. However, the relative contribution of various MHC Ib-restricted T cell populations to anti-mycobacterial immunity remains elusive. In this study, we used mice that lack MHC Ia (Kb-/-Db-/-), MHC Ia/H2-M3 (Kb-/-Db-/-M3-/-), or β2m (β2m-/-) to study the role of M3-restricted and ...