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Technology, production and partnership innovation in Uganda
Since 2007 a partnership between UNHCR, the Government of Uganda and ‘MakaPads’ inventor Moses Musaazi has helped provide affordable sanitary pads for thousands of refugee girls and women while substantially reducing UNHCR’s expenditure on these ...
Moses Musaazi
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ABSTRACT We engineered a cobalt‐doped biphasic calcium phosphate (CoBCP) by combining monetite‐derived pyrophosphate and β‐tricalcium phosphate (β‐TCP) with lattice‐incorporated Co2+, and evaluated its physicochemical profile and in vitro bioactivity relevant to bone regeneration.
Luísa Camilo Suter +6 more
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Innovation – what, why and how for a UN organisation
The purpose of innovation is to make humanitarian work more effective and more reflective. We do innovation to improve human lives by doing things better. Innovation, for UNHCR, is a humanitarian imperative to be carried out with partners.
Alexander Aleinikoff
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Micromagnetic view on ultrafast magnon generation by femtosecond spin current pulses [PDF]
In this Article we discuss a micromagnetic modelling approach to describe the ultrafast spin-transfer torque excitation of coherent and incoherent magnons on the nanoscale.
Razdolski, Ilya, Ulrichs, Henning
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An Approach to Estimating State‐Level Medicaid Nursing Home Spending
ABSTRACT Objective To create and validate a measure of state‐level, average daily Medicaid nursing home spending rates using publicly available data sources. Study Design We created a new state‐level measure of average daily Medicaid nursing home payment rates, calculating Medicaid spending per day divided by estimated Medicaid days.
Hannah C. Ratliff +3 more
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Innovation and new ways of working across sectors
Humanitarian actors will have to adapt to a changing world but it will not be easy or straightforward. Operations are changing as a result of innovations which bring many improvements but also throw up challenges.
Erik Abild
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Optimal switching of a nanomagnet assisted by microwaves
We develop an efficient and general method for optimizing the microwave field that achieves magnetization switching with a smaller static field. This method is based on optimal control and renders an exact solution for the 3D microwave field that ...
A. E. Bryson Jr. +7 more
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Innovation and refugee livelihoods: a historical perspective
It is difficult to speak convincingly of ‘new’ or innovative practices towards refugees, especially in refugee livelihoods assistance, while there remains a significant gap in historical knowledge and institutional memory.
Evan Elise Easton-Calabria
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The Dynamic Nature of Nearshore Shark Nurseries in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
ABSTRACT Aim Some habitats serve particularly important functions for wildlife. Identifying and appropriately managing these ‘essential habitats’ is critical, especially for wildlife that have faced severe population declines like sharks. Nursery habitats aid in the survival and development of juvenile sharks, which until recently were not formally ...
Philip Matich +5 more
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Humanitarian innovation, humanitarian renewal?
The continued evolution of the humanitarian innovation concept needs a critical engagement with how this agenda interacts with previous and contemporary attempts to improve humanitarian action.
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
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