Veterans from Laos: War, Remembrance, Ritual, Rank, Racism, and the Making of Hmong and Lao America [PDF]
Hmong and Lao veterans of the Secret War in Laos in the United States have become less active in anti-communist activities, especially since the Hmong former general, Vang Pao, was charged in 2007 with attempting to overthrow the Lao government. Although
Ian Baird, Paul Hillmer
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Certification Report of EQRAIN Plutonium - Program N° 10 [PDF]
The EQRAIN Plutonium N° 10 is an evaluation program set up by CEA/CETAMA in order to evaluate the quality of results from nuclear measurement laboratories. The objective of this programme is to determine the plutonium concentration of a plutonium nitrate
AREGBE YETUNDE +5 more
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The Effects of the Food Stamp Program on Energy Balance and Obesity [PDF]
The Effects of the Food Stamp Program on Energy Balance and ObesityFood Stamp Program (FSP), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), obesity, body mass index (BMI), nutrition assistance, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Q18, H53, I12 ...
Alston, Julian M. +2 more
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The Effectiveness of the Pension System in Latvia: pensioner’s point of view [PDF]
Purpose system, which is considered the most progressive and modern system in the world, for the pensioners themselves. Scientific aim The aim of the paper is to analyze the effectiveness of the Latvian pension system and find out minimal values of the ...
Kozlovskis, Konstantins
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ANALYSIS OF POVERTY STRUCTURE IN INDONESIA USING A MULTIFACTORIAL APPROACH
Poverty is a crucial issue that affects various social and economic aspects in Indonesia, requiring severe attention to achieve sustainable development.
Dewa Putu Yudi Pardita +3 more
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Optimal universal and categorical benefits with classification errors and imperfect enforcement [PDF]
We determine the optimal combination of a universal benefit, B, and categorical benefit, C, for an economy in which individuals differ in both their ability to work – modelled as an exogenous zero quantity constraint on labour supply – and, conditional ...
Slack, Sean Edward, Ulph, David Tregear
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Economic Analysis of MGNREGA in the Drought–prone States of Karnataka, Rajasthan and Irrigation–dominated State of Andhra Pradesh [PDF]
Using macro level data on MGNREGA performance in drought-prone states of Karnataka and Rajasthan as well as in irrigation-dominated state of Andhra Pradesh, this study has revealed that the impact of MGNREGA wage on the economic scarcity of labour is ...
Indumati, S., Murthy, P.S. Srikantha
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Insights into antibody catalysis: Structure of an oxygenation catalyst at 1.9-Å resolution [PDF]
The x-ray crystal structures of the sulfide oxidase antibody 28B4 and of antibody 28B4 complexed with hapten have been solved at 2.2-Å and 1.9-Å resolution, respectively.
Hsieh-Wilson, Linda C. +2 more
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Rosacea is strongly associated with melanoma in Caucasians
Rosacea is often considered a cosmetic problem but is known to be associated with a variety of comorbidities. To identify such risks, we generated two age- and sex-matched real-world cohorts of 122,444 patients each with and without rosacea.
Jennifer von Stebut +6 more
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Integration, social distress, and policy formation [PDF]
I study the integration of regions in the form of a merger of populations, which I interpret as a revision of people’s social space and their comparison set; I illustrate the way in which a merger can aggravate social distress; and I consider policy ...
Stark, Oded
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