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Can Scope Make a Difference? Assessing the Reach of Due Diligence Laws in Supply Networks
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) laws seek to make companies legally accountable for adverse social and environmental impacts across their supply chains. Although jurisdictionally bounded, these laws rest on the assumption that their influence can extend globally through supply networks.
Vera Săvulescu, Luc Fransen
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Running towards: Labour market incentives for runaway slaves in the British Cape Colony, 1830–1838
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Recent scholarship on slave escapes has increasingly emphasised economic motivation, but few studies have empirically investigated how market incentives influenced the decision‐making of enslaved individuals during transitions from coerced to wage labour.
Karl Bergemann +2 more
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The political consequences of Africa's mobile revolution
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract What are the political consequences of rising domestic connectivity? I study this question in Sub‐Saharan Africa, asking how mobile technology shapes public opinion in geographically isolated communities. For remote rural populations, mobile devices increase contact with physically distant social networks, through regular phone calls with ...
Alex Yeandle
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X-ray micro-computer tomography (micro-CT) provides 3D visualization of internal geometry of a textile without destructing samples. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate usage of the micro-CT technique for structural analysis of weft-knitted ...
Barburski, Marcin +4 more
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Influence of friendship on benign and malicious envy among secondary school students
British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background Benign and malicious envy arise from social comparisons regarding a quality, achievement or possession. As school is inherently evaluative and social, the classroom offers a relevant and understudied context to investigate envy and the impact of friendship on envy. Prior research has shown a positive association between relationship
Flora Fassl +5 more
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health, EarlyView.Background To examine whether positive self‐evaluation and contextual variables—such as those created by family, peers and schools—serve as promotive factors or protective factors in the context of adversity. Methods Data were drawn from two waves of the youth survey of a population‐representative cohort in Hong Kong.
Yanyan Ni +5 more
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Child development research predominantly focuses on Western secular contexts and does not adequately consider non‐Western religious contexts. The COVID‐19 pandemic has affected children worldwide in various dimensions, with children from minority populations being disproportionately impacted.
Netanel Gemara
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At‐risk emerging adults may be less inclined to invest in future goals, yet the mechanisms underlying their future orientation (FO) remain unclear. Therefore, this study examined how social support network attributes contribute to FO in at‐risk and non‐at‐risk emerging adults and the mediating role of self‐efficacy.
Eran P. Melkman, Yafit Sulimani‐Aidan
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Multiagency collaboration to address care‐experienced children and young people's mental well‐being has been advocated as a way of attending to complex needs while avoiding fragmented support. Key sectors with a statutory role include education, mental health and social care, and there is increasing interest at a UK and global scale about ...
Sarah MacDonald +6 more
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