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Visas, Inc: Corporate Control and Policy Incoherence in the U.S. Temporary Foreign Labor System [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This report provides the first comprehensive analysis of the many visas that employers use and misuse to bring foreign workers into the U.S. in every field, from low-wage jobs in agriculture and domestic work, to specialty occupations in health care ...
Ashwini Sukthankar
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Immunocompetence in Hydra. Epithelial cells recognize self-nonself and react against it [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
The evolution of effective immunologic defense mechanisms in multicellular organisms involves the ability of host cells to distinguish betweeen self and nonself and to react appropriately to eliminate foreign tissue.
Bosch, Thomas C. G., David, Charles N.
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Interface Wettability Transition‐Driven Drug Release and Dual‐Phase Functionalization in Implant Abutment

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
A temporally controlled drug release coating is developed for abutments using a superhydrophobic coating self‐assembled on mesoporous silica. This surface provides sequential functionality: initial contamination resistance through non‐wetting, followed by controlled drug release via wettability transition.
Zhongchao Wang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enterohepatic Migration of Fish Bone Resulting in Liver Abscess

open access: yesCase Reports in Surgery, 2015
Liver abscess formation due to enterohepatic migration of a foreign body is extremely rare. Foreign body ingestion is generally an unconscious and painless event, thus complicating preoperative diagnosis in most patients.
Chikwendu Ede   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Liver abscess following ingestion of a foreign object [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
A 31 year old, previously healthy female presented to A&E on 24/07/2012 with a 2 day history of colicky epigastric pain and spiking fever; however on investigation no pathology was found except for an ovarian cyst of 4cm.
Abela, Lauren, Borg Xuereb, Keith
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Chronic Disease Monitoring Using Advanced Compliant Materials for Bioelectronics

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Compliant bioelectronic systems enable continuous monitoring of chronic disease through soft, stretchable materials and tissue‐conformal designs that support stable electrophysiological, mechanical, and biochemical sensing. Integration of diverse sensing modalities with thoughtful material selection, device architectures, and advanced fabrication ...
Han Kim   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

No. 25: Complex Movements, Confused Responses: Labour Migration in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The end of apartheid undermined the rationale for apartheid-era immigration. Immigration from Europe (which had been declining in the 1980s) dwindled to almost nothing as the new government dissociated itself from the racist immigration policies of the ...
Crush, Jonathan
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Migration of foreign body from postcricoid region to the subcutaneous tissue of the neck

open access: yesAnnals of Saudi Medicine, 2010
Migration of a foreign body from the hypopharynx to the subcutaneous tissue of the neck is a rare event. We report a case of a 48-year-old male who accidentally swallowed a fish bone which was not identified intraoperatively.
Shaariyah Mohd Mokhtar   +3 more
doaj  

Illegal migration, enforcement and minimum wage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper examines the connection between illegal migration, minimum wages and enforcement policy. We first explore the employers’ decision regarding the employment of illegal migrants in the presence of an effective minimum wage.
Epstein, G.S., Heizler, O.
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