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Are Baby Boomers Saving Enough for Their Retirement? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Discusses factors that determine the amount of savings baby boomers need for retirement, including income and pre-retirement consumption levels, housing wealth, family type and size, and entitlement to Social Security and defined benefit pension ...
Rudolph G. Penner
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Real‐time fault detection in multicomponent nuclear‐waste slurries through data fusion of spectroscopic sensors

open access: yesAIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Three instruments–Raman spectroscopy, attenuated total reflectance–Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and focused beam reflectance measurement–were used to detect sensor faults, mixing faults, and unanticipated chemistry in a system of multicomponent slurries.
Steven H. Crouse   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wilt Chamberlain Redux: Thinking Clearly about Externalities and the Promises of Justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Gordon Barnes accuses Robert Nozick and Eric Mack of neglecting, in two ways, the practical, empirical questions relevant to justice in the real world.1 He thinks these omissions show that the argument behind the Wilt Chamberlain example—which Nozick ...
Rodgers, Lamont, Rodgers, Travis Joseph
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Large Language Model‐Based Chatbots in Higher Education

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
The use of large language models (LLMs) in higher education can facilitate personalized learning experiences, advance asynchronized learning, and support instructors, students, and researchers across diverse fields. The development of regulations and guidelines that address ethical and legal issues is essential to ensure safe and responsible adaptation
Defne Yigci   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Systematic Method to Analyze Force Majeure in Construction Claims

open access: yesBuildings, 2017
In construction delay claims, force majeure is normally recognized as an excusable risk that entitles contractors only to time extensions, but neither of the contracting parties is entitled to monetary compensation to recover delay damages.
Saud Alshammari   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Statement of client entitlement: good practice guidance: for organisations and practitioners providing career guidance services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
"Lifelong Learning UK, (the independent employer-led sector skills council with responsibility for the professional development of staff working in the UK lifelong learning sector) identified a need to develop a UK wide client entitlement statement for

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Inflation, Race, and Legislation—The Erosion in the Real Value of Monetary Compensation for Miners' Occupational Lung Disease in South Africa, 1973–2024

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background For much of the 20th century, the South African mining industry had a statutory compensation system for pneumoconiosis and tuberculosis characterized by gross racial inequality. This study examines the impact of inflation over the period 1973–2024 on the real value of miners' lung disease compensation, including the effect of the ...
Martin Nicol   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who tends to perceive other people as useful objects? The relationship between the general tendency to objectify other people and basic and dark personality traits

open access: yesCurrent Issues in Personality Psychology
Background Objectification involves perceiving and instrumentally treating other people as mere tools useful for satisfying the perceiver’s goals. While several situational factors facilitating objectification have been identified, only a few studies ...
Kinga Lachowicz-Tabaczek   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The right to democratic entitlement: Time for change? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The right to democratic entitlement is well documented in international law. Numerous universal and regional constitutional treaties are premised on it and reverend it. National constitutions of most States espouse themselves to it.
Chigara, B
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