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The Doctrine of Consideration: Dead or Alive in English Employment Contracts? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The doctrine of consideration, with its emphasis upon exchange, and its general rejection of 'more for the same', seems inadequate for the modern environment in which flexible rewards may reflect the employer's concern that the importance of individual ...
Hough, Barry, Spowart-Taylor, Ann
core  

Thermally Cured Sulfonated para‐PBI as Ion Solvating Membrane for Use in Water Electrolysis

open access: yesAdvanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
The cMS‐PBI membrane is designed to be free of the known breaking points which limit the lifetime of membranes in alkaline electrolysis systems. As supported by high conductivity and 6 months ex situ stability test, the cMS‐PBI ion solvating membrane can substitute anion exchange membranes and thus can reduce the cost of green hydrogen by increasing ...
Asridin Dayan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The intelligence cycle is dead, long live the intelligence cycle: Rethinking intelligence fundamentals for a new intelligence doctrine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the spring of 2009 the UK Ministry of Defence elected to undertake a review of the existing military Joint Intelligence Doctrine. The existing doctrine, Joint Warfare Doctrine 2-00 (JWP 2-00) Intelligence Support to Joint Operations had been ...
Davies, PHJ, Gustafson, K, Rigden, I
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The future of dispute resolution in international trade

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Given ongoing dysfunction of the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body, the focus of this article is on the future of trade dispute resolution, with evaluation of two questions: (i) What is the current status of WTO dispute resolution as compared to that conducted through existing preferential trade agreements (PTAs)? and (ii) What are the
Ian Sheldon, Daniel C. K. Chow
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring specialty crop grower willingness to pay for genetic modification and genetic editing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract In contrast to the widespread adoption of agricultural commodities modified using biotechnology, the adoption rate of bioengineered specialty crops by growers remains low. The use of bioengineered crops has been controversial since their introduction in the 1990s due to concerns about their potentially harmful effects to human health, the ...
Marie Abbey   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cauchy-completions and the rule of unique choice in relational doctrines [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
Lawvere's generalised the notion of complete metric space to the field of enriched categories: an enriched category is said to be Cauchy-complete if every left adjoint bimodule into it is represented by an enriched functor. Looking at this definition from a logical standpoint, regarding bimodules as an abstraction of relations and functors as an ...
arxiv  

The effects of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw returning behavior

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Straw returning is important for rural ecological management and sustainable agricultural development. Using farm survey data for Anhui Province, China, in 2020, we applied the double‐hurdle model to investigate the impact of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw‐returning behavior, and to explore the ...
Xin Wang, Yanping Song, Wei Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Ability as legitimation of tracking: Teachers' representations of students in vocational and academic tracks

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, Volume 48, Issue 6, Page 1049-1064, December 2022., 2022
Abstract The division of educational systems into different tracks—academic and vocational—represents one of the key elements in explaining social stratification and inequalities. Previous research identifies teachers' expectations as a critical factor to understand the relationship between tracking and social inequality.
Aina Tarabini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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