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A New Social Life Cycle Assessment Framework: An AI‐Driven Optimization Approach and Application

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social life cycle assessment (SLCA) has increasingly been acknowledged as a tool for assessing the societal impacts of services and products. However, the fragmented nature of current approaches makes it difficult to compare this concept and its practical applications.
Flavio Vassallo Mattos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Change, continuity, and decision-making in the transition to old-age retirement from work and day activity services: qualitative longitudinal follow-up

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being
Purpose To increase understanding of the transition from work and day activity services to old-age retirement among people with intellectual disabilities.
Sirpa Granö   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Retirement Incentives and Couples' Retirement Decisions [PDF]

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The typical family in the US is now a dual-earner couple, yet relatively few studies examine the retirement decision in a household context. This paper explores how husbands' and wives' retirement behavior is influenced by their own financial incentives ...
Courtney Coile
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Meeting the Basic Needs of International Students

open access: yesNew Directions for Student Services, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the COVID‐19 pandemic, many International Student Services offices are exploring and expanding the ways in which they support the basic needs of students, from food, housing, transportation, childcare, health care to mental health and wellbeing to financial assistance.
Judith Pennywell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The “We” and “Me” of Identity in Hazardous Industry Organizations: Face Work Tactics Among Practicing Engineers

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In this paper, we use Goffman's notion of “face work” to examine how pipeline engineers perform and present their working selves as competent experts. Our analysis identifies various faces and face work tactics, including a focus on professional judgment, actively selling one's expertise relative to others, protective self‐deprecatory strategies, and ...
Sarah Maslen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Other Titles: Biennial Report of the Kansas State School Retirement System and the Kansas State School Retirement Board, 1960-1970 tate School Retirement System (1960, 1964-1970) State School Retirement System, State School Retirement Board (1962)

open access: yes, 1960
These biennial reports are summaries of the activities of this agency. They were extracted from a series of Kansas agency reports covering over 100 state agencies and institutions bound together for each biennium, 1959/1960 - 1979/1980. The Kansas State
Kansas State School Retirement System.
core   +1 more source

Disability Insurance and Labor Market Exit Routes of Older Workers in The Netherlands [PDF]

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This paper presents information on labor market participation of the elderly, mortality and health, pathways to retirement and rates of participation in various earnings replacing programs in the Netherlands.
Klaas de Vos   +2 more
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Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Distance‐based orientation describes how pejorative labels may serve as anchor points for political identity. Existing research on political labeling has largely emphasized stigmatization, overlooking how labels may acquire durability and orienting capacity without losing pejorative force. Drawing on publicly circulating discourse, we trace positioning
Tammar Friedman, Asaf Saadon
wiley   +1 more source

How Large are the Classification Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Process? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper presents an audit' of the multistage application and appeal process that the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) uses to determine eligibility for disability benefits from the Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income ...
Moshe Buchinsky   +2 more
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A Review of Transient Support and Security‐Stability Enhancement Control Strategies for Grid‐Forming Voltage Source Converter‐Based High Voltage Direct Current Transmission

open access: yesHigh Voltage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid the ongoing global energy transition, the short‐circuit ratios of AC power grids are continuously decreasing. Grid‐forming voltage source converter‐based high voltage direct current transmission (GFM VSC‐HVDC) systems have therefore come to the forefront of attention.
Cheng Peng   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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