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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Commercial light‐based 3D printers increasingly find use for industry‐scale production of microstructured tissue culture devices. How can commercial printer performance be assessed for a given application? This work introduces simplified quantitative metrics based on microstructural fidelity analysis, addressing key manufacturing challenges in scaling ...
Zoltán András Guller +4 more
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The Two Tales of Forced Labour: Katorga and Reformed Prison in Imperial Russia (1879-1905)
Almanack: This article explores the advance of the prison reform in the Russian Empire. It examines the governmental department that was the driver of this reform, the Main Prison Administration, and focuses on its policy in the domain of the forced labour of ...
Zhanna Popova
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spotlight europe 2008/04, April 2008: Human Trafficking: Europe's New Shame and Disgrace [PDF]
, 2008 Slavery in Europe? Forced labour in this day and age? Only a handful of Europeans are aware of the fact that human trafficking and forced labour exist right in their midst.
García Schmidt, Armando.
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Bioinspired Materials, Designs, and Manufacturing Strategies for Advanced Impact‐Resistant Helmets
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This review explores how bioinspired materials, structures, and manufacturing strategies transform helmet design to achieve enhanced impact resistance. Drawing inspiration from nacre, porcupine quills, beetle exoskeletons, and skull architectures, it highlights advances in auxetic lattices, nanocomposites, and functionally graded foams.
Joseph Schlager +4 more
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The obsolescence of Article 603-bis of the criminal code and the new forms of labour exploitation
Labour & Law Issues, 2020 Article 603-bis of the Criminal Code describes the case of exploitation of labour through the so-called indices of exploitation. The use of this innovative contextual typification technique has application limits, since the indices almost exclusively ...
Valeria Torre
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Darfur Abductions: sexual slavery and forced labour [PDF]
, 2008 This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Anti-Slavery International +1 more
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A Novel Simplified Approach to Physically Simulate Wire‐Arc Directed Energy Deposition Conditions
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Scarcity of specialized titanium alloy wires and high experimental wire production costs impedes wire‐arc directed energy deposition (waDED) adoption in industry. A novel, wireless approach is introduced to accelerate and economize titanium alloy development.
Martin Klein +4 more
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Trafficking of Migrant Workers from Romania: Issues of Labor and Sexual Exploitation [PDF]
, 2004 Part of a major research project on the forms of forced labor today developed by the ILO Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour (SAP-FL), this paper argues that trafficking for labor exploitation is an emerging issue in Europe and in particular
Ghinararu, Catalin +3 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.A near infrared‐responsive microscale cantilever is developed using a 3D‐printable composite based on photocurable resin consisting of sepiolite and graphene flakes. The material absorbs 1064 nm light, causing shape transformation with an average displacement of 1.3 mm in 1.7 s. Displacement is measured via video recording.
Karolina Laszczyk +3 more
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Heat stress and the labour force
Nature Reviews Earth & EnvironmentHeat stress affects the health of workers through physiological and behavioural responses, in turn, affecting the labour force through impacts on labour supply, labour productivity and labour capacity. In this Review, we explore the extent to which heat stress affects the labour force and discuss the corresponding occupational health and economic ...
Dasgupta, Shouro +5 more
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