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Retirement Savings and Household Wealth: A Summary of Recent Data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Pension analysts refer to Social Security, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and personal savings as the “three-legged stool ” of retirement income, but for some workers at least one of the legs is missing.
Purcell, Patrick
core   +2 more sources

Solidifying system of democracy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The paper examines the requirements of an effective and legitimized democratic political system in the process of transition. The analysis and the conclusions are based on the Hungarian experience, which can carefully be applied to all Central and ...
Goetz K.   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Ecosystem services provided by spiders

open access: yesBiological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 6, Page 2217-2236, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Spiders, ubiquitous and abundant predators in terrestrial ecosystems, often are the subjects of an unjust negative perception. However, these remarkable creatures stand as unsung heroes within our ecosystems, contributing a multitude of ecosystem services critical to human well‐being.
Pedro Cardoso   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Living Longer on Less [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Economic security for seniors was built on the three-legged stool of retirement (Social Security, pensions, and savings) at the core of the social contract that rewards a lifetime of productivity.
Jennifer Wheary
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Individual variation in animal communication: from species averages to unique voices

open access: yesBiological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 6, Page 2625-2640, December 2025.
ABSTRACT The comparative study of communicative behaviour in non‐human animals, especially primates, has yielded crucial insights into the evolution of human language. This research, mostly focused on the species and population level, has improved our understanding of the various socio‐ecological factors that shape communication systems.
Angèle Lombrey, Marlen Fröhlich
wiley   +1 more source

Healthy Retail as a Strategy for Improving Food Security and the Built Environment in San Francisco. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In low-income neighborhoods without supermarkets, lack of healthy food access often is exacerbated by the saturation of small corner stores with tobacco and unhealthy foods and beverages.
Dyer, Shelley   +5 more
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Key conditions for success of partnerships for conservation of threatened species and threatened ecological communities

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, Volume 7, Issue 12, December 2025.
In conservation practice, multi‐stakeholder partnerships that leverage the skills and resources of partner organizations are commonly initiated to achieve recovery outcomes. From analysis of 44 practitioner interviews, we present the key ingredients for successful partnerships that are both functional and effective in their ability to achieve ...
Anja Skroblin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smooth the Dying Pillow: Alaska Natives and Their Destruction [chapter] [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
This paper was originally presented in Symposium III, "Group Rights at the Close of the Twentieth Century: Strategies for Assisting the Fourth World; Session 3, Evaluating Strategies for Change" at the 12th International Congress, Commission on Folk Law ...
Conn, Stephen
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Complete‐coverage trenching trajectory planning for excavators via reachability and excavation force maps

open access: yesComputer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Volume 40, Issue 30, Page 6048-6066, 19 December 2025.
Abstract Current trenching trajectory planning methods for autonomous excavators primarily focus on a single cycle, lacking overall optimization of the entire task. This study proposes an offline method for overall optimization of trenching trajectories via reachability and excavation force maps.
Zhe Suo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Exploration of DNA Extraction Methods of Fly iDNA for Scalable Biodiversity Monitoring

open access: yesEnvironmental DNA, Volume 7, Issue 6, November–December 2025.
Metabarcoding of invertebrate‐derived DNA (iDNA) is an excellent tool for assessing terrestrial mammal diversity, but the time and costs associated with sample processing constrain its wider adoption. Our study indicates that the non‐destructive extraction of large pools of entire fly bodies has the potential to streamline and reduce the costs of fly ...
Mueena Jahan   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

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