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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
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
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
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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
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Subjective Social Inequalities, Lay Perceptions of Merit and Puzzles of Explanation
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
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The Kinetics of Crazing and Shear Yielding in Rubber-Toughened Plastics
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
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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
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Preparation of organic, inorganic hybrid polymer films and fibres by solvent crazing [PDF]
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
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Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field
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
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Crazing near a fracture surface in polystyrene
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
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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
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