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MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE REINFORCED WITH GRAPHENE NANOPLATELETS AND JUTE FABRIC

open access: yesMix Sustentável, 2023
Owing to sustainable characteristics, natural lignocellulosic fibers (FNLs) and graphene nanoplatelets (GNP)-reinforced composites are currently seeing applications in a wide range of industrial fields.
Ulisses Costa   +5 more
doaj  

CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
wiley   +1 more source

PLAYING WITH PREFIGURATION: Ludic Spaces and Prefigurative Organizing for Children's Right to the Mobile City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Earlier writings on the political importance of play have discussed how it can make players conscious of the possibilities of otherwise worlds. Prefigurative politics has very similar aims, but the discussion between the two has been limited.
JONNE SILONSAARI
wiley   +1 more source

Subjective Social Inequalities, Lay Perceptions of Merit and Puzzles of Explanation

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite rising socioeconomic inequalities most people see individualised merit as crucial for social success. Drawing on surveys such as the ISSP a wealth of research examines trends in subjective perceptions, the relative importance accorded to merit and non‐merit factors for getting ahead in life and factors which influence lay perceptions ...
Sarah Irwin
wiley   +1 more source

The Kinetics of Crazing and Shear Yielding in Rubber-Toughened Plastics

open access: yes, 1987
The work presented and reviewed in this paper leads to the following conclusions: (a) The kinetics of creep in HIPS containing 0.2 µm diameter core-shell rubber particles are similar to those in more conventional HIPS containing larger multiple-inclusion
C. B. Bucknall
core   +1 more source

Unkept Promises, Unequal Worlds: A Sociological Study of Intimate Abuse in Promise‐to‐Marry Cases in India

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
wiley   +1 more source

Preparation of organic, inorganic hybrid polymer films and fibres by solvent crazing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This thesis focuses on the preparation of functional synthetic polymer fibers and films using the process called solvent crazing. Solvent crazing is a very complex phenomenon, which is realized by polymer drawing in the presence of liquid environment ...
Goel, Pooja
core  

Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
wiley   +1 more source

Crazing near a fracture surface in polystyrene

open access: yes, 2010
Crazes are both a precursor to cracking and a toughening mechanism in stressed polymers. They only form when a certain critical tensile stress has been attained and form perpendicular to the largest tensile principal stress. They are very fine crack-like
DoITPoMS, University of Cambridge   +1 more
core  

“I have sixty people apply for a job”: A qualitative exploration of how recruiters approach employment decisions about new graduate dietitians

open access: yesNutrition &Dietetics, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims The increasing number of new graduates in recent decades has intensified competition for dietetics positions in Australia. While literature is emerging on the job‐seeking experiences of new graduates, the voices of those recruiting and employing dietitians have been under‐researched.
Henriette G. Ryding   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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