Competitive Adjustment and Advancement in Global Commodity Chains II: The Case of the Singapore Garment Industry     

Leo van Grunsven  & Floor Smakman 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2002,23(1):70-92

This is the second part of a contribution to the debate on the possibilities of leveraging economic globalisation — through incorporation in international production networks and global commodity chains (GCCs) — as a strategy for developing countries to industrialise and advance their position in the world economy. In the first part, we analysed the experience of the East Asian apparel industry and addressed the issues of sustaining positions, upgrading to more rewarding roles, and advancing to less dependent positions within production networks and GCCs. We developed an analytical framework at both the firm and industry levels, and subsequently identified alternative firm- and industry-level strategies and trajectories. The present paper deals with these issues in the context of the Singapore apparel industry. Based on extensive empirical research, we demonstrate that although the East Asian experience of upgrading and repositioning within the GCC is to some extent emulated in the case of the Singapore apparel industry, the outcomes have been less favourable in terms of the depth, extent and strength of these trajectories. The differing outcomes can be explained in terms of different (systemic) conditions in the Singapore business environment, including the agency of local players, the geography of sourcing networks, and the role of the state and prevailing business attitudes. Our conclusions merit continued attention in both research and policy circles on the development of capabilities at the firm level, and the role of local business and institutional environments in local industry development processes under globalisation.  相似文献   

Finite-difference modelling of two-dimensional elastic wave propagation in cracked media     

Vincent A. van Antwerpen  Wim A. Mulder  Gérard C. Herman 《Geophysical Journal International》2002,149(1):169-178

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Data and model uncertainty estimation for linear inversion   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Kasper van Wijk  John A. Scales  William Navidi  Luis Tenorio 《Geophysical Journal International》2002,149(3):625-632

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Patch use and exploratory movements of a resident houbara bustard in northern Saudi Arabia     

Yolanda van Heezik  Philip J. Seddon 《Journal of Arid Environments》2002,50(4):683

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The rate of grain release by pore-ice sublimation in cold-aeolian environments   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Deanna van Dijk  Jane Law 《Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography》2003,85(1):99-113

Pore‐ice sublimation is a prerequisite for aeolian activity in cold environments where surface sediments hold significant amounts of frozen water. Few quantitative studies have defined the rate of grain release from cemented surfaces by pore‐ice sublimation. In 1996–1997, controlled field experiments at Presqu'ile Beach, Ontario, were implemented to measure sediment release from frozen surfaces. The release rates were compared to the local wind regime, ambient temperature and humidity. In additional field experiments, the effect of sediment water content on grain release by sublimation was examined. From the experimental results, an equation which predicts grain release based on local wind speed, ground temperature, humidity, and surface water content is proposed. Predicted release rates show reasonable agreement with natural deflation measured on the beach at Presqu'ile Provincial Park.  相似文献   

Shear wave statics using receiver functions   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

D. van Manen  J. O. A. Robertsson  A. Curtis  R. Ferber  H. Paulssen 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,153(3):F1-F5

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Joint inversion of local, regional and teleseismic data for crustal thickness in the Eurasia–Africa plate boundary region     

Federica Marone  Mark van der Meijde  Suzan van der Lee  Domenico Giardini 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,154(2):499-514

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Receiver function study of the Hellenic subduction zone: imaging crustal thickness variations and the oceanic Moho of the descending African lithosphere   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

X. Li  G. Bock  A. Vafidis  R. Kind  H.-P. Harjes  W. Hanka  K. Wylegalla  M. van der Meijde  X. Yuan 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,155(2):733-748

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Wind erosion from military training lands in the Mojave Desert, California, U.S.A.   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Simon J. van Donk  Xuewen Huang  Edward L. Skidmore  Alan B. Anderson  Dick L. Gebhart  Valerie E. Prehoda  Elizabeth M. Kellogg 《Journal of Arid Environments》2003,54(4):687-703

Military training activities reduce vegetation cover, disturb crusts, and degrade soil aggregates, making the land more vulnerable to wind erosion. The objective of this study was to quantify wind erosion rates for typical conditions at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, CA, U.S.A. Five Big Spring Number Eight (BSNE) sampler stations were installed at each of five sites. Each BSNE station consisted of five BSNE samplers with the lowest sampler at 0·05 m and the highest sampler at 1·0 m above the soil surface. Once a month, sediment was collected from the samplers for analysis. Occurrence of saltating soil aggregates was recorded every hour using Sensits, one at each site. The site with the most erosion had a sediment discharge of 311 kg m⁻¹ over a period of 17 months. Other sites eroded much less because of significant rock cover or the presence of a crust. Hourly sediment discharge was estimated combining hourly Sensit count and monthly sediment discharge measured using BSNE samplers. More simultaneously measured data are needed to better characterize the relationship between these two and reconstruct a detailed time-series of wind erosion. This measured time-series can then be used for comparison with simulation results from process-based wind erosion models such as the Wind Erosion Prediction System (WEPS), once it has been adapted to the unique aspects of military lands.  相似文献   

Towards non-linear inversion for characterization of time-lapse phenomena through numerical modelling     

A. Abubakar  P.M. van den Berg  J.T. Fokkema 《Geophysical Prospecting》2003,51(4):285-293

We compare two geophysical survey measurements of the same type made at different times in order to characterize the change in the geological medium during the elapsed time. The aim of this study is to develop a strategy using a full non-linear inversion algorithm as the interpretation tool. In this way, not only the location and the form of the changes are recovered, but also the changes in the material parameters of the geological medium can be estimated. In order to solve this fully non-linear problem, the so-called ‘multiplicative regularized contrast source inversion’ (MR-CSI) method is employed. The unique property of this iterative method is that it does not solve the forward problem at each iterative step. This makes it possible to use the non-linear inversion algorithm for large-scale computation problems. The numerical results show that by taking into account the non-linear nature of the problem, interpretation of the time-lapse data can be significantly improved, compared with that obtained using linear inversion.  相似文献