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Updating the Social Contract [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Ohioans are struggling through economic slumps and recoveries with less help than in the past, according to this report. The safety net that used to ensure basic needs were met is in tatters, and needs to be updated for today's challenges.
Amy Hanauer, Sarah Osmer
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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ownership structures and the leverage of listed firms in China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this paper the relationship between leverage, performance and a firm’s ownership structure is investigated. It is an exploratory study based on listed firms in China, that is all firms listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 1999 to ...
Hovey, Martin
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Corporate Restructuring: Myths and Realities [PDF]

open access: yes
During the first six months of 1989 U.s. corporations acquired over $19 billion of their own stock to establish employer stock ownership plans (ESOPs).
Mark A. Wolfson, Myron S. Scholes
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Wisconsin Dairy Investment Credit [PDF]

open access: yes
Agricultural and Food Policy, Livestock Production/Industries,
Harris, Philip E.
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Advanced Investigation of the Elimination of Methylene Blue From Wastewater Using Activated Carbon–Copper Oxide Nanowires: New Perspectives With Statistical Physical Modeling

open access: yesAsia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this study, the actual route of methylene blue (MB) dye adsorption by using fabricated polyfunctional activated carbon–copper oxide nanowires (AC@CuO‐NWs) from bulky wastewater bodies has been investigated. To better understand the exact pathway of the adsorption process, a prominent statistical physics formalism or grand canonical ...
Abdellatif Sakly   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrated Estimates of Forest Expansion Opportunity in New York State. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Manage
Armstrong A   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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