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Welfare effects of fixed and percentage-expressed child support awards [PDF]

open access: yes
Over the last decade a large number of states have significantly altered their legal statutes concerning the disposition of divorce cases involving children. In particular, many states have increasingly employed percentage-expressed orders in which child
C. J. Flinn, D. Del Boca
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The statistics of the trajectory in a certain billiard in a flat two-torus

open access: yes, 2003
We consider a billiard in the punctured torus obtained by removing a small disk from the two-dimensional flat torus, with trajectory starting from the center of the puncture. In this case the phase space is given by the range of the velocity only.
Boca, Florin P.   +2 more
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Mapping the Determinants of Female Employment: Labour Market Areas and Spatial Spillovers

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the territorial determinants of female employment rates using labour market areas (LMAs) – functional units based on commuting patterns – to mitigate the Modifiable Area Unit Problem (MAUP). Drawing on detailed Spanish census microdata and spatial econometrics, we find that male unemployment negatively affects female ...
Raquel Simón‐Albert   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Home-leaving Decision of Daughters and Sons [PDF]

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In spite of relevant differences between countries, a common international pattern emerges: daughters leave parental homes earlier than sons. Drawing upon the European Community Household Panel, we explore the impacts of various factors that affect ...
Daniela Del Boca, Maria Concetta Chiuri
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On computing local monodromy and the numerical local irreducible decomposition

open access: yesTransactions of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 13, Issue 1, December 2026.
Abstract Similarly to the global case, the local structure of a holomorphic subvariety at a given point is described by its local irreducible decomposition. Geometrically, the key requirement for obtaining a local irreducible decomposition is to compute the local monodromy action of a generic linear projection at the given point, which is always well ...
Parker B. Edwards   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impactful Weather and Multi‐Hazard Events: Lived Experiences From Rural Scotland

open access: yesClimate Resilience and Sustainability, Volume 5, Issue 1, June 2026.
This study explores stakeholders’ experiences of impactful weather events and multi‐hazards—whose frequency and severity are evolving due to climate change—using surveys of 43 participants and 12 follow‐up interviews from respondents in rural Scotland as a case study.
Lou Brett   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review of Jeffrey W. Vincoli, Risk Management for Hazardous Chemicals (1996) and Andre R. Cooper, Sr., Cooper\u27s Toxic Exposures Desk Reference (1997) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Book reviews for the following: Jeffrey W. Vincoli, Risk Management for Hazardous Chemicals (2 vols. CRC Lewis Publishers 1996). Acknowledgments, author, Chemical Abstracts Number index, chemical name index, introduction, preface, references, structure ...
Field, Thomas G., Jr.
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“The Future Is Ancestral”: The Environmental Cuir Utopias of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Argentinian author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara identifies as a “socio‐environmentalist and writer” and has been actively involved in the feminist movement #NiUnaMenos since 2015, alongside her growing engagement with environmental activism. She advocates for Indigenous land rights, water accessibility, and challenges offshore petroleum extraction ...
Victoria Jara
wiley   +1 more source

Presencia en la Literatura Universal de charlatanes, sacamuelas y barberos Presence of quacks, tooth-pullers and barbers in the world literature

open access: yesRevista Cubana de Estomatología, 2012
La Literatura Universal, fuente de información y conocimiento, medio para enriquecer el acervo cognoscitivo y cultural de los profesionales de la estomatología; recoge en sus páginas las raíces de esta profesión, manifestada en la labor que realizaron ...
Bernardo Manuel Núñez Pérez   +1 more
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