The Use of an Atmospheric Model to Simulate the Rocket Exhaust Effluents Transport and Dispersion for the Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara by Daniel Schuch, Gilberto Fisch

“…The results show that the HCl levels are dangerous in the first hour after the launching into the Launch Preparation Area and at the Technical Meteorological Center region; the CO levels are critical for the first 10 min after the launching, representing a high risk for human activities at the proximities of the launching pad.…”
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Client and Contractor Organisations’ Assessment of Design-Bid-Build Procurement Practice in Nigeria by Dada, M.O.

“…It is recommended that the homogeneity of perceptions can be a launching pad for further investigation and intervention efforts for procurement improvement in Nigeria.…”
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Design and Optimization of Vertical Launcher Structure of Launch Vehicle Launching from the Ship Using Finite Element Method by Asghar Mahdian, Mohammad Hadi Mortazavi Manesh, Behrooz shahriari

“…Launching pads are among the essential elements of missiles and their main function is to prepare missiles for launch. …”
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Los determinantes de la IED española en Iberoamerica by Santos M. Ruesga, Julimar da S. Bichara

“…The context where this process in taking place and its characteristics lead the authors to conclude that Spanish firms are staking on Latin America as a launching pad for a competitive intemationalisation process in the world market. …”
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Prospects of the Russia-Canada cooperation in the Arctic by Toporikova Y.M.

“…The Arctic, being a region where countries possess interrelated interests and encounter similar challenges, is likely to become a re-launching pad for the good-neighborly relations between Russia and Canada. …”
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Starting on the road to pediatric enhanced recovery after surgery: strategies and themes by Sherif Emil, Julia Ferreira, Chantal Frigon, Elena Guadagno, Marcy Horge, Justine Laurie

“…It culminated in the first Canadian pediatric ERAS conference, which was held in Montreal on April 28, 2023, and served as a launching pad for instituting an ERAS culture in our hospital. …”
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A parable of the African condition: the interface of postmodernism and postcolonialism in Biyi Bandele-Thomas's fiction by Kehinde, Ayo

“…Bandele–Thomas’s The Man Who Came in from the Back of Beyond and The Sympathetic Undertaker and Other Dreams are used as the launching pad of the discourse. A thorough analysis of both novels reveals that Bandele-Thomas’s fiction is considerably shaped by the discursive strategies of both postcolonialism and postmodernism.…”
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General planetary vehicle and industrial space necklace “Orbit” as an alternative to rocket near space exploration by Anatoli E. Unitsky, Sergei A. Pronkevich, Sergei V. Artyushevsky, Vitali V. Looksha

“…The complex should serve as a basis for the removal of harmful industry to the near-Earth orbit and become a launching pad for active expansion into space. The GPV and ISN Orbit are effective means for the complex and progressive solution of environmental problems on Earth and productive implementation of space direction.…”
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Negative Consequences of Innovation-Igniting Urban Developments: Empirical Evidence from Three US Cities by Ahoura Zandiatashbar, Carla Maria Kayanan

“…Economic developers are using IIUD strategies to convert areas of the city into entrepreneurial “launch pads” for innovation. However, because these developments remain young, considerations to implement IIUDs lack an evidence-base to show the potential for negative consequences on the communities where they are embedded. …”
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Japan-Sweden first balloon experiment by Masaru Ayukawa, Masaki Ejiri

“…Two balloons of Japanese type B_5 (5000m^3) were successfully flown on September 10 and 11,1980 from the balloon launching pad at Esrange, Kiruna, Sweden. A prime objective in this campaign was to study the high-latitude (auroral zone) upper-atmospheric phenomena associated with magnetospheric/ionospheric activities. …”
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Security challenges in the transition to 4G mobile systems in developing countries by Fanuel Melak Asmare, Lijaddis Getnet Ayalew

“…Because many network devices in developing countries are old and poorly protected, they could serve as a launching pad for perpetrators. This work thoroughly investigates and discusses fundamental security flaws in the 4 G network. …”
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Participarea universităților din România la Programul Orizont 2020 by Maria Teodora Hudrea, Dan Tudor Lazăr

“…It is important to note that the Horizon 2020 funding program was not only a source of funding but also a launching pad for researchers from all over Europe, as it allowed them to become known internationally.…”
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Manufacturing technology, lean and strategic flexibility the silver bullet for Malaysia lean manufacturers by Mohamed Ismail, Risyawati, Che Razak, Razli, Mad Lazim, Halim

“…Malaysian manufacturing sector is still lacking of a strategic approach on its national manufacturing direction and guideline, to serve as the launching pad for the sector's sustainable growth.This paper not only ventures into a new perspective of strategy-performance research, but it also explores the possibility of studying different complementing strategies impact on the performance of manufacturers.…”
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Special Edition: Left Realism Today - Guest Editor’s Introduction by Walter DeKeseredy

“…The main objective of this volume is to use this offering as a ‘launching pad’ or ‘springboard’ for broader analyses of the relevance of Left Realism to critical criminology as we know it today.…”
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Perspectives for Partnership and Security under the Vision of the Three Seas Initiative by Andreea-Loredana Tudor

“…Can the 3SI format be considered, in this context, a launching pad for the rapid integration into the European structures of the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine, and Georgia?…”
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Franz Neumann and Ernst Fraenkel on the Liberal Democratic Constitutional Project by David Dyzenhaus

“…My exploration is through Saunders's attention to the divergent analyses of the Nazi state set out by Franz Neumann and Ernst Fraenkel in the 1930s as the launching pad for her investigation of the structure of thought that underpins LDCP and her suggestion that Fraenkel is responsible for the juridical turn in LDCP. …”
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City Cemeteries as Cultural Attractions: Towards an Understanding of Foreign Visitors’ Attitude at the National Graveyard in Budapest by Brigitta Pécsek

“…The paper ultimately aims to provide stakeholders solid, preliminary data that might serve as a launching pad for further larger-scale research.…”
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Estimates of Lightning Activity and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash Detectability at Mount Etna for the ESTHER Project by Alessandro Ursi, Danilo Reitano, Enrico Virgilli, Andrea Bulgarelli, Alessandra Tiberia

“…This study represents a preliminary work for ESTHER and serves as a launching pad for future analyses.…”
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Development of systemic financial control tools in corporations by Vladimir Nikolaevich Zhukov

“…The author concludes that the results obtained in the course of cross-financial control and interpreted into quantitative and qualitative indicators play the role of a launching pad for the adoption of integrated managerial solutions. …”
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Nobel prize winner Erwin Schrödinger: the physicist, philosopher, and godfather of molecular biology and genetics by T. V. Danylova, S. V. Komisarenko

“…Schrödinger’s genius reshapes our view on the nature and essence of life creating a launching pad for the new transdisciplinary paradigm, which can contribute to the development of a unified theory of everything in the spirit of Schrödinger’s philosophy.…”
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