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A Sustainable Bio‐Based Epoxy Thermoset as a High‐Performance Alternative to BPA‐Based Resins
Advanced Science, EarlyView.A rigid–flexible bio‐based epoxy network integrates soybean oil, lignin, and maleic anhydride to overcome the strength–toughness–sustainability trade‐off of conventional BPA epoxy. The thermoset delivers excellent performance as both a structural adhesive and a matrix for glass‐fabric composites, while enabling pH‐responsive degradation, environmental ...
Jiyun Qi +4 more
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Just another job? paying for domestic work
, 2001 Paid domestic work is a feature of households all over the world, from Ecuador to Swaziland, from Spain to the Ivory Coast. In many countries, it probably constitutes the single largest female employment sector (though its invisibility can make this ...
Anderson, Bridget
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Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers and Employers Survey [PDF]
, 2015 VR conducted a survey among domestic workers and employers of domestic workers in Sri Lanka during the period of March to June 2014 and analysed the findings in terms of domestic workers' working standards, wages and bargaining power. The report provides
Kumarage, Aloka, Abeysinghe, Subhashini
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Understanding agency and resistance strategies (UNARS): children’s experiences of domestic violence [PDF]
, 2015 This report focuses on children’s experiences of domestic violence, in families affected by domestic violence. Our report is concerned with children’s experiences in situations where the main perpetrator and victim of violence would be legally defined as
Callaghan, Jane E M +3 more
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Groundwater Rise Sustains the World's Largest Alpine Water System Under Global Warming
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Shallow groundwater depth (SGWD) across the non‐permafrost plains of the Qinghai–Xizang Plateau decreased at averagely 0.02 m year−1, adding 31.44 Gt of freshwater storage from 2000 to 2020 and sustaining ∼53 500 km2 of alpine ecosystems. A vadose‐zone capacity of 426.6 Gt reveals these aquifers as promising reservoirs, highlighting groundwater's ...
Jianqing Du +15 more
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NiH‐Catalyzed Enantio‐ and Regioselective Hydroselenylation of Unactivated Alkenes
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Nickel‐hydride‐catalyzed enantio‐ and regioselective hydroselenylation of unactivated alkenes provides access to chiral organoselenium compounds. Enantiodetermining Ni–H insertion followed by single‐electron diselenide activation generates selenyl radical.
Hyung‐Joon Kang +2 more
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Cahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les SavoirsThis article seeks to understand the social cleavages in the domain of childcare delegation by studying variations between families in the practices of taking on parental work.
Sebastián Pizarro Erazo
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Domestic work and the gig economy
, 2022 The provision of cleaning, childcare and other housework through online platforms is an increasingly important sector. This chapter identifies key challenges domestic work in the gig economy creates for workers' rights protections and proposes an agenda for future research.
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Social Work with Children Affected by Domestic Violence: An Analysis of Policy and Practice Implications [PDF]
, 2006 The past decade has seen an increasing awareness of the emotional harm to children that can ensue from exposure to domestic violence. This article develops a framework for understanding social work responses, using an analysis of recent developments in ...
Fairtlough, Anna
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China's Low‐Carbon Energy Transition Over the Past Two Decades: Experiences and Implications
Advanced Science, EarlyView.China's low‐carbon energy transition features a brief decline and subsequent rebound in coal consumption, alongside the rapid expansion of renewable energy. This study develops a stage‐based analytical framework to explain this evolution from the perspectives of economic development, energy security, and environmental sustainability, revealing how ...
Yu Liu +3 more
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