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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn +6 more
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Forest cover change in space and time : combining the von Thunen and forest transition theories [PDF]
This paper presents a framework for analyzing tropical deforestation and reforestation using the von Thunen model as its starting point: land is allocated to the use which yields the highest rent, and the rents of various land uses are determined by ...
Angelsen, Arild
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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The Defense of Monopoly as a Determinant of the Process of Transformation of State-owned Infrastructure Sectors in Poland [PDF]
This paper aims to prove that during the transformation process in Poland of the sectors of general economic interests due to specific economic characteristics of those sectors and the fact that interests of three groups participating in the decision ...
Bobinska, Krystyna
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Introducing Preference Heterogeneity into a Monocentric Urban Model: an Agent-Based Land Market Model [PDF]
, 2008 This paper presents an agent-based urban land market model. We first replace the centralized price determination mechanism of the monocentric urban market model with a series of bilateral trades distributed in space and time.
Filatova, Tatiana +2 more
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In order to reflect the actual production situation more comprehensively and optimize the production cost, this paper solves the short‐term scheduling optimization problem for a single pipeline containing high melting point crude oil. Based on the refining plan given by the upper layer, a multi‐objective optimization model with high melting ...
Jing Yao +5 more
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Journal of Applied Polymer Science, EarlyView.Advantages of MMMs and the Robeson plot detailing improved performance of the 4d05% membrane. ABSTRACT Mixed matrix membranes were produced by incorporation of SSZ‐13 zeolites into polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) to assess the effect of filler properties and concentration on the CO2/N2 separation efficiency compared to pure PDMS membranes.
Alice Cardoso Takahashi +7 more
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Corruption, Development and the Curse of Natural Resources [PDF]
In 1995, Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner found a negative relationship between natural resources and economic growth, and claimed that natural resources are a curse.
G. Cornelis van Kooten +2 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This research explored how young adults (ages 18–25) learn to use financial records and the roles financial records play in their experiences in coming to see themselves as financially mature social actors. The contribution of this paper is a revised model of transitions theory that includes personal information management (PIM) as an ...
Robert Douglas Ferguson +2 more
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Innovation and Rent Sharing in Corporate Wage Setting in Hungary [PDF]
Skill biased technical change arrived to Hungary with the transition to market economy. As Hungary integrated into the international economy, technical change progressed much faster in some sectors than in mature market economies. That lead to increasing
Gabor Korosi
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