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, 2014 The 2012 Paralympics was the biggest ever, the most accessible and best attended in its 64-year history. The Paralympics and ideas of disability associated with the Games provide significant opportunity for reflection on how far societal opinions ...
Molesworth, Mike +4 more
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Microfluidic Valve‐Integrated Garment for Smooth Sequential Gradient Mechanotherapy
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.We present a soft wearable sleeve that delivers smooth, gap‐free compression using overlapping air‐filled actuators and tiny microfluidic valves. The system reduces bulk, lowers power needs, and uses a smartphone‐sized control box. It can provide sequential gradient compression, gradient pressure holding, and fast deflation, supporting more portable ...
Run Ze Gao +5 more
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Disability in Political Science
Annual Review of Political ScienceDespite increasing interest in recent years, disability remains a neglected area of study within mainstream political science. Beginning with a brief overview of the ways that disability studies scholars have defined disability, I address the issues that have arisen in trying to measure disability as well as the limits and possibilities that follow ...
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FOUCAULT AND THE GOVERNMENT OF DISABILITY
, 2005 Foreword / Ladelle McWhorter -- Foucault, governmentality, and critical disability theory: an introduction / Shelley Tremain -- Pt. I. Epistemologies and ontologies -- Subjected bodies: paraplegia, rehabilitation, and the politics of movement ...
Tremain, Shelley, ed.
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On the Possibility and Desirability of Constructing a Neutral Conception of Disability
, 2003 Disagreement about the proper attitude toward disability proliferates. Yet little attention has been paid to an important meta-question, namely, whether "disability" is an essentially contested concept. If so, recent debates between bioethicists and the
Silvers, Anita
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This work presents a magnetic bronchoscopy robot with a novel multi‐segment variable stiffness catheter. This catheter can not only move flexibly in the narrow bronchi but also harden according to the need to provide support. Combined with remote wireless magnetic field drive, it provides a more precise and effective solution for biopsy of deep lung ...
Shucong Yin +10 more
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DISABILITY POLITICS IN PORTUGAL AND THE COLONIAL WAR
, 2016 Disability politics in Portugal and the colonial war The Portuguese Colonial war was fought between Portugal’s military and the nationalist movements in Portugal’s African colonies between 1961 and 1974. The confl ict opposing the Portuguese Armed Forces
Sena Martins, Bruno, Fontes, Fernando
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Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou +3 more
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Optimal disability assistance when fraud and stigma matter [PDF]
I study the optimal redistributive structure when individuals with distinct productivities also differ in disutility of work due to either disability or distase for work.
Laurence, JACQUET
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Coming Out as Undocumented: Identity Celebrations and Political Change
SocietiesBy focusing on the notion of ‘coming out as undocumented’, this concept paper critically explores whether identity politics has the potential to transform dominant ‘illegalisation’ processes.
Raffaela Puggioni
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