The potential of digital loans to reduce gender disparities in financial inclusion among female health entrepreneurs in Kenya. [PDF]
Sci RepAshubwe JA +9 more
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Electrolyte‐free cathode design for solid‐state batteries demonstrated with bifunctional Li2VCl4
Batteries &Supercaps, Volume 8, Issue 3, March 2025.The “electrolyte‐free” cathode design is demonstrated by utilizing the ion‐conducting active material Li2VCl4. This design is exclusively viable within all‐solid‐state battery configurations, where both active materials and electrolytes exist in the solid state.
Takuma Kasahara +3 more
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Between Knowledge and Strategy: A Cross-Sectional Study on Financial Literacy, Coping, Consumer Loans, and Payment Preferences Among Young Adults in Sweden. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel)Levinsson H, Santérus L, Samuelsson E.
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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
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Crop insurance as a climate risk management tool: Evidence from three districts of Punjab, Pakistan. [PDF]
PLoS OneKhan M +3 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall +2 more
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Policy interventions to improve health through housing: A scoping review. [PDF]
PLoS OneBuffardi AL, Pascall Jones P, Begault L.
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper analyses differences in academic achievement associated with attendance at publicly funded private schools and public schools across 11 European countries. Using eight waves of PISA data (2000–2022), we apply OLS, IPW and IPWRA estimators to account for observed heterogeneity and mitigate selection bias.
Priya Maurya +2 more
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The correction of the urban-rural wealth Gini coefficient of China. [PDF]
PLoS OneDai P, Jin Z.
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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