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Mobile Work: Handcart and Bicycle Workers Across the Urban Economy of Greater Accra Region

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article explores the role of handcart and bicycle workers—mobile workers—in the urban economy of Accra and Tema, Ghana. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, it shows how their practices of food vending, e‐waste collection and mobile trade exemplify a form of relational infrastructure that sustains urban life through improvisation ...
Kauê Lopes dos Santos, Livia Cangiano Antipon   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diltiazem N‐oxide, a novel ischaemia‐activated prodrug, prevents ischaemia‐induced ventricular fibrillation without off‐target adverse effects

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and Purpose Ventricular fibrillation (VF) in coronary heart disease accounts for up to 70% of sudden cardiac death. We examined whether diltiazem N‐oxide (DNO) has ischaemia‐selective antiarrhythmic activity. Experimental Approach Randomised and blinded experiments were performed in rat isolated hearts and in anaesthetised rats to ...
Louise M. Hesketh, Gabriel A. Watson, Francesca Mazzacuva, Zoe Hoare, Thomas R. Eykyn, Michael J. Curtis   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
wiley   +1 more source

The Fast and the Fragile: Neurosurgical Trauma in the Age of Micromobility. [PDF]

Neurosurgery
Weiss H, Ber R, Blacker M, Kim N, Orillac C, Balucani C, Huang PP.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Conversation With David Bellhouse

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

Modernizing the Manileña: Technologies of conspicuous consumption for the well-to-do woman, circa 1880s–1930s [PDF]

, 2012
Appadurai, Bankoff, Brewer, Cordero-Fernando, Corpuz, Corpuz, Corson, Cowan, del Rosario, Doeppers, Doeppers, Douglas, Fast, Fernandez, Foreman, Freidberg, Fuller, Gaches, Ignacio, Kramer, Larkin, Legarda, Maines, Marchand, McCoy, Moon, Mrázek, Owen, Rafael, RAQUEL A. G. REYES, Reyes, Rizal, Rizal, Roxas, Salonga, Sta. Maria, Tomes, Trasko, Veblen, Williams   +39 more
core   +1 more source

Dynamic Trust Formation in AI‐Enabled Automation: A Longitudinal Case Study of an Advanced Driver Assistance System

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI)–enabled automation is often utilised in systems that perform human tasks. While useful, these technologies pose a risk of adverse consequences in the case of AI failures as they operate in open environments, learn and are subject to continuous updates.
Kari M. Koskinen, Niina Mallat, Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen, Antti Lyyra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Electric-Scooter- and Bicycle-Related Trauma in a Hungarian Level-1 Trauma Center-A Retrospective 1-Year Study. [PDF]

J Clin Med
Foglar V, Süvegh D, Al-Smadi MW, Veres D, Nemes C, Viola Á.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Suggestions for the Use of Electric Bicycles for Sustainable Bicycle Leisure Culture in Korea: Moving Electric Bicycle Laws into the Future

Research in Dance and Physical Education, 2021
openaire   +1 more source

A matheuristic for the traveling salesman problem with positional consistency constraints

International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We propose a matheuristic for the traveling salesman problem with positional consistency constraints, where we seek to generate a set of routes with minimum total cost, in which the nodes visited in more than one route (consistent nodes) must occupy the same relative position in all routes.
Luís Gouveia, Ana Paias, Mafalda Ponte
wiley   +1 more source