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Minimum Wages and Homelessness
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Economic theory offers competing predictions about how minimum wage policies might affect homelessness. While minimum wages might reduce homelessness by raising incomes, they could also trigger employment disruptions and negative income shocks identified in the literature as proximate causes of homelessness.
Seth J. Hill
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Research on the optimization of urban emergency shelters considering flood disaster risks
Geomatics, Natural Hazards & RiskTo enhance the operational efficiency of emergency shelters in disaster management, this study focuses on flood disasters and identifies four critical indicators.
Donghui Zhang, Jinhu Wang
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Typhoon track change-based emergency shelter location-allocation model: a case study of Wenchang in Hainan province, China. [PDF]
Inj Prev, 2020 Qin L, Xu W, Zhao X, Ma Y.
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Homelessness and Substance Abuse: Is Mandatory Treatment the Solution? [PDF]
, 1994 For the government to be successful in addressing homelessness, it must focus on the link between homelessness and substance abuse. In New York City and elsewhere, advocates are reluctant to publicize the connection between substance abuse and ...
Abbott, Melanie B.
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Dynamic Modelling of Critical Infrastructures for Improved Disaster Habitation Recovery
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Natural disasters damage infrastructure systems that support housing habitability, leading to population displacement. Recovery efforts speed up infrastructure capacity restoration and, thereby, rehabitation by displaced residents. Current recovery policy analysis methods focus on individual infrastructure systems or overall community recovery
Benjamin C. Ozumba, David N. Ford
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A Bioregional Approach to Teaching Sustainability and Resilience Online
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This chapter describes how the first graduate program in resilient and sustainable communities has evolved over the past decade, maintaining its bioregional approach to distance learning while adapting the curriculum to meet new challenges in the age of climate change.
Laird Christensen
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Human Trafficking in Silcon Valley [PDF]
, 2014 Human trafficking has become one of the most lucrative criminal enterprises around the world. The magnitude of this crime is also significant at the local level, with California ranking as one of the nation's top four destination states for trafficked ...
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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.Asiatic black bears in Russia face conservation threats such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, which exacerbate food shortages caused by crop failures. This study explores an innovative approach to rehabilitating bears that abandon hibernation in mid‐winter due to extreme exhaustion by providing supplemental food near their den sites.
Sergey A. Kolchin +2 more
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CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) in deploying robotic sprayers for pandemic‐associated disinfection and monitoring has garnered significant attention in recent research. The authors introduce a novel architectural framework designed to interconnect smart monitoring robotic devices within healthcare facilities using narrowband Internet of Things ...
Md Motaharul Islam +9 more
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Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Faced with climate warming, ectothermic species shift their breeding phenology, which is in part attributed to an acceleration of gestation or incubation in warmer environments.
Théo Bodineau +7 more
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