Meso-level analysis of moisture flow in cement composites using a lattice-type approach

Abstract Background: Historical institutionalism (HI) determines that institutions have been transformed by a pattern of punctuated evolution due to exogenous shocks. Although scholars frequently emphasize the role of agency - endogenous factors – when it comes to institutional changes, but the HI analytic narratives still remain in the meso-level analysis in the context of structure and agency. This article provides domestic and policy-level accounts of where biodefense institutions of the United States and South Korea come from, seeing through emergency-use-authorization (EUA) policy, and how the EUA policies have evolved by employing the policy-learning concepts through the Event-related Policy Change Model. Results: By employing the Birkland’s model, this article complements the limitation of the meso-level analysis in addressing that the 2001 Amerithrax and the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak rooted originations and purposes of the biodefense respectively. Since the crisis, a new post-crisis agenda in society contributed to establishing new domestic coalition, which begin to act as endogenous driving forces that institutionalize new biodefense institutions and even reinforce them through path dependent way when the institutions evolved. Therefore, EUA policy cores (Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) in the United States and Non-Pharmaceutical Intervention (NPI) in South Korea keep strengthened during the policy revisions. Conclusions: The United States and South Korea have different originations and purposes of biodefense, which are institutions evolving through self-reinforce dependent way based on the lessons learned from past crises. In sum, under the homeland security biodefense institution, the US EUA focuses on the development of specialized, unlicensed PEP in response to public health emergencies; on the other hand, under the disease containment-centric biodefense institution, the Korean EUA is specialized to conduct NPI missions in response to public health emergencies.

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A meso-level analysis

Governing Failure ◽

10.1017/cbo9781139542739.003 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 20-42

Author(s):

Jacqueline Best

Keyword(s):

Meso Level ◽

Level Analysis

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How Successive CEOs Animate the Process of Organizational Becoming: A Meso-Level Analysis

Academy of Management Proceedings ◽

10.5465/ambpp.2020.13028abstract ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 (1) ◽

pp. 13028

Author(s):

Robert A Burgelman ◽

Yuliya Snihur ◽

Llewellyn D W Thomas

Keyword(s):

Meso Level ◽

Level Analysis

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Visions of Greater Serbia: Local Dynamics and the Prijedor Genocide

Genocide Studies and Prevention ◽

10.5038/1911-9933.14.1.1686 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 105-123

Author(s):

Damir Kovačević

Keyword(s):

Structural Control ◽

National Level ◽

Political Authority ◽

Depth Level ◽

Local Dynamics ◽

Local Elites ◽

Meso Level ◽

Explanatory Factors ◽

High Level ◽

Level Analysis

This article examines the process of genocide in the Prijedor municipality during the Bosnian civil war of the 1990s. In this article, genocide is understood as a dynamic and extraordinary phenomenon, which requires a subnational, or meso-level analysis, to capture the complexities of the case and to account for the shortcomings in the previous literature focusing mostly on the national-level. By narrowing the analysis to a more in-depth level, two explanatory factors help us understand the escalation and radicalization of violence to genocide: structural control and agency collaboration. Specifically, overwhelming political authority, territorial dominance, and a highly coordinated effort between national and local elites, brought the Greater Serbia goals to life, and accounted for the high-level of intensity and group-targeting witnessed in Prijedor.

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Moving beyond meso-level analysis

Policy Networks under Pressure ◽

10.4324/9780429431838-4 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 53-67

Author(s):

Carsten Daugbjerg

Keyword(s):

Meso Level ◽

Level Analysis

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Why Do Some Entrepreneurs Develop Venture Portfolios? And how do they Do So? A Meso-Level Analysis

Academy of Management Proceedings ◽

10.5465/ambpp.2021.13420abstract ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 (1) ◽

pp. 13420

Author(s):

Tobias Kutzewski ◽

Marc Bahlmann ◽

Wouter Stam

Keyword(s):

Meso Level ◽

Level Analysis ◽

Do So

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Meso-Level Analysis on Bending Properties of Steel-Polypropylene Hybrid Fiber Concrete

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.368-373.869 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 368-373 ◽

pp. 869-873

Author(s):

Ya Fang Zhang ◽

Hao Liu ◽

Lin Li

Keyword(s):

Elasticity Modulus ◽

Polypropylene Fiber ◽

Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽

Hybrid Fiber ◽

Meso Level ◽

High Elasticity ◽

Fiber Concrete ◽

The Impact ◽

Incorporation Ratio ◽

Level Analysis

Two kinds of fiber, which are steel fiber with high elasticity modulus and polypropylene fiber with low elasticity modulus, have been incorporated into concrete in order to improve its mechanical properties of low strain capacity. To study the impact of flexural strength of hybrid fiber concrete, in this paper, a meso-level numerical model of steel-polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete has been established. By changing the incorporation ratio of two kinds of fiber, the optimized ratio has been identified. The results indicate that when two kinds of fiber are added, brittleness of concrete has been significantly improved.

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