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Canadian Library Salaries and Material Quality of Life
Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and ResearchThis paper seeks to answer what material quality of life can be expected for someone working in a library in Canada, based on the salaries offered in a data set of three months of job postings on a national job board.
Jordan Pedersen
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Making water affordable to all: A typology and evaluation of options for urban water pricing [PDF]
An important criterion for the design of urban water prices is the affordability of water supply for poor customers. This paper presents a typology of water pricing options which policy-makers have at their disposal in order to address affordability.
Lehmann, Paul
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Controlled syntheses of lanthanide coordination polymers based on the dihydroxybenzoquinone (DHBQ) organic linker afforded large single crystals of Ln‐DHBQ CPs (Ln = Yb, Nd). A novel structural variant of Yb‐DHBQ is identified by means of single crystal diffraction analysis.
Marina I. Schönherr +7 more
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Toward defining and measuring the affordability of public utility services [PDF]
This paper reviews the progress made in the literature toward defining and measuring the affordability of utilities. It highlights the relative merits of alternate affordability metrics; the practical challenges to their operationalization, including the
Kessides, Ioannis +3 more
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Premium Incentives to Drive Wellness in the Workplace: A Review of the Issues and Recommendations for Policymakers [PDF]
, 2012 Outlines trends in workplace wellness programs; healthcare reform law provisions allowing greater financial incentives for employees; policy considerations for vulnerable populations, privacy issues, and affordability of coverage; and ...
JoAnn Volk, Sabrina Corlette
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A food‐grade cooling composite made from starch and recycled eggshell powder offers a scalable, ultra‐low‐cost solution for passive daytime radiative cooling. Easily prepared using basic kitchen tools, this material empowers communities, even in areas with limited infrastructure, to stay cooler during worsening summer heat waves.
Qimeng Song +3 more
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2011 State of Metropolitan Housing Report [PDF]
, 2011 Examines issues of environmental justice and 2011 indicators of housing affordability in the Louisville area, including concentration of subsidized housing, segregation, poverty, homeownership, foreclosure, and homelessness.
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Chemoselective Sequential Polymerization: An Approach Toward Mixed Plastic Waste Recycling
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Inspired by biological protein metabolism, this study demonstrates the closed‐loop recycling of mixed synthetic polymers via ring‐closing depolymerization followed by a chemoselective sequential polymerizations process. The approach recovers pure polymers from mixed feedstocks, even in multilayer formats, highlighting a promising strategy to overcome a
Gadi Slor +5 more
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A subnational affordability assessment of nutritious foods for complementary feeding in Kenya
Maternal and Child NutritionComplementary feeding among children aged 6–23 months is a key determinant of micronutrient deficiencies and childhood stunting, the burdens of which remain high in Kenya.
Theresa Ryckman +7 more
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Energetic and Economic Evaluation of Olive Production Systems: A Comparative Assessment of Chemical, Mechanical, and Integrated Weed Management Strategies [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural MachineryThis study evaluates the energy consumption and economic performance of three different weed control methods employed in olive orchards in Tarom County, Zanjan Province, Iran, with an emphasis on sustainable agriculture.
B. Mohammadi +3 more
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