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Unfinished Business: Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy [PDF]
, 2013 [Excerpt] We have been studying the impact of PFL on California employers and workers since the bill creating the new program was signed into law in late 2002.
Appelbaum, Eileen, Milkman, Ruth
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Musculoskeletal humanoids exhibit rich biomechanical properties that remain insufficiently unified in prior discussions. This article systematically categorizes muscle characteristics into five properties: redundancy, independency, anisotropy, variable moment arm, and nonlinear elasticity, and analyzes their combined effects on control.
Kento Kawaharazuka +2 more
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Mapping disability politics through cyborg coalitions
, 2020 This essay aims to craft intersections between the figure of the cyborg and disability that part from the usual ones. I will frame disability advocacy through the concept of “cyborg politics”, as proposed by Donna J. Haraway in her famous Cyborg Manifesto (1991). I will discern two possible meanings of it, affinity and avidity.
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The Art of Legislative Lawyering and the Six Circles Theory of Advocacy [PDF]
, 2003 A legislative lawyer is a person who exists in Washington, D.C., and in almost every city and state in this country where legislation and administrative regulations are developed. But most people do not know who that person is or what that person does.
Feldblum, Chai R.
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This work presents a lightweight Miura‐origami soft knee exoskeleton powered by vacuum actuation and integrated with a multimodal physiological intent‐recognition system, providing real‐time assistance during sit‐to‐stand movement to reduce muscle effort and improve user comfort.
Yuchuan Jia +5 more
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Disabling Discourses and Enabling Practices in Disability Politics
, 2020 Disabled people object strongly to the term 'the disabled', which identifies individuals and groups solely in terms of their disability and which objectifies them as people. The rights movement found its expression in anti-discrimination and disability legislation, with a strong focus on asserting and protecting people's rights.
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Claiming spaces: Maori (indigenous persons) making the invalid valid [PDF]
, 2008 Identity is a shifting paradigm because of the constant movement between identities throughout our lives, depending on the context within which we are identifying ourselves. Once we identify, we place ourselves within a certain construct.
Hickey, Huhana
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.: In this work, Voxel‐SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) is introduced: a complete, accurate, and versatile LiDAR (light detection and ranging) ‐inertial SLAM system consisting of five modules: initialization, odometry, local mapping (LM), loop closure (LC), and global mapping (GM), all employing the same map representation, an adaptive voxel
Zheng Liu +9 more
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Impairment on the move: the disabled incomer and other invalidating intersections [PDF]
, 2017 Hughes, Bill
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Faculty Publications 2018-2019 [PDF]
, 2019 The production of scholarly research continues to be one of the primary missions of the ILR School. During a typical academic year, ILR faculty members published or had accepted for publication over 25 books, edited volumes, and monographs, 170 articles ...
Cornell University ILR School
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