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Sen and the art of educational maintenance: evidencing a capability, as opposed to an effectiveness, approach to schooling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
There are few more widely applied terms in common parlance than ‘capability’. It is used (inaccurately) to represent everything from the aspiration to provide opportunity to notions of innate academic ability, with everything in between claiming ...
Kelly, Anthony
core   +1 more source

Kitambaa: A Convivial Future-Oriented Framework for Kinangop’s Learning Hub

open access: yesEducation Sciences
The aim of this paper, and more generally, our project “Impact from the ground” (a multi-stage ongoing project), is to reimagine education so that it transcends the walls and harsh constraints of a “universal one size fits all” education. To achieve this,
Caroline Kuhn   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The dilemma of “sustainable welfare” and the problem of the future in capacitating social policy

open access: yesSustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2022
This article discusses a dilemma of welfare states in the ecological transition. While the principle of “sustainability” is increasingly accepted, there are very different concrete declinations of it.
Francesco Laruffa
doaj   +1 more source

Protein pyrophosphorylation by inositol pyrophosphates — detection, function, and regulation

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Protein pyrophosphorylation is an unusual signaling mechanism that was discovered two decades ago. It can be driven by inositol pyrophosphate messengers and influences various cellular processes. Herein, we summarize the research progress and challenges of this field, covering pathways found to be regulated by this posttranslational modification as ...
Sarah Lampe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coping with Poverty and Social Exclusion: Promoting Capabilities Through Long‐Term Sports Participation

open access: yesSocial Inclusion
Poverty and social exclusion (PaSE) are multifaceted challenges that affect individuals across all stages of life, manifesting as financial deprivation, health inequities, and restricted access to social and economic opportunities.
Lukas Oettle, Jörg Greiner
doaj   +1 more source

A Basic Right Denied: The Interplay Between Various Factors Contributing to School Dropouts in Pakistan

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2021
Enshrined in different conventions nationally and internationally, education is a fundamental right of every child irrespective of identity and location worldwide.
Saadia Abid, Syed Murad Ali, Inayat Ali
doaj   +1 more source

Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Critical reflections on the currently leading definition of sustainable employability

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2016
Sustainable employability (SE) is an important topic as it deals with employees’ abilities to function adequately at work and in the labor market throughout their working lives.
Bram PI Fleuren   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bringing classes back into poverty discussions

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2023
The 1980s saw a shift in the emphasis of discourse on poverty from production relations to consumption relations, with levels of consumption and purchasing power used to define poverty.
Gizem Özgün, Antoine Dolcerocca
doaj   +1 more source

Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

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