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Improving damping capabilities in low-rise frames using reinforced rubberized concrete: A comprehensive study. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Habib A, Leblouba M, Junaid MT, Altoubat S, Maalej M, Habib M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Wasta and Gender Inequality in the Workplace: A Conceptual Framework for Social Network Influence in the Middle East and North Africa

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although organizational social networks are extensively researched, the gendered implications of informal networks embedded in distinctive socio‐cultural contexts remains underexplored. This conceptual paper focuses on wasta, a pervasive form of informal network and social capital in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which ...
Maryam Aldossari, Sara Chaudhry, Btissam Aboubichr, Amna Chaudhry   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Conversation With David Bellhouse

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

The Collapse of the USSR and the Emergence of Mass Child Neglect

, 2009
The overall research objective of the thesis is to analyse the causal relationship between, on the one hand, the late Soviet and early post-Soviet societal development, and, on the other, the evolving street-children problem. In terms of timeframe, the thesis mainly explores developments in Russia from 1985 (when Gorbachev came to power) until 1996 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Maintaining Legitimacy in Global Labor Governance: Legitimation Politics at the International Labour Organization (ILO)

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes how industrial relations actors maintain legitimacy in global labor governance by investigating the legitimation politics at the International Labour Organization (ILO). Drawing on the concept of legitimacy tests, we identify three strategies that the workers' and employers' groups at the ILO have deployed to maintain ...
Huw Thomas, Vicente Silva
wiley   +1 more source

Historical evolution of healthcare systems of post-soviet Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, and Azerbaijan: A scoping review. [PDF]

Heliyon
Semenova Y, Lim L, Salpynov Z, Gaipov A, Jakovljevic M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Ethnic Diversity in Compulsory Schooling and Occupational Choices: Can Diversity Increase the Supply in Care‐Oriented Occupations

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of ethnic diversity on occupational choices, particularly in care‐oriented occupations which are scarce in many high‐income countries. We use administrative data of all students in Switzerland to study two diversity dimensions: ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization.
Damiano Pregaldini, Simone Balestra, Uschi Backes‐Gellner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perinatal mortality after Chernobyl in former Soviet countries. [PDF]

PLoS One
Körblein A.
europepmc   +1 more source