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How to Make Guest Worker Visas Work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
President Obama and a bipartisan group of eight senators have begun to push for immigration reform. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) likewise said he supports an immigration overhaul as a "top priority" for 2013.
Alex Nowrasteh
core  

Proalgebraic crossed modules of quasirational presentations

open access: yes, 2016
We introduce the concept of quasirational relation modules for discrete and pro-$p$ presentations of discrete and pro-$p$ groups and show that aspherical presentations and their subpresentations are quasirational.
A Lubotzky   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Evaluating Kentucky bluegrass and perennial ryegrass seeding ratios for sod grown on plastic production

open access: yesCrop, Forage &Turfgrass Management, Volume 12, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Sod grown on plastic (SOP) is a sod established on a thin layer of growing medium atop a plastic sheet. It can be harvested with minimal damage to the roots, thereby reducing transplant shock. Kentucky bluegrass (KBG; Poa pratensis L.) is a commonly used cool‐season turfgrass species in sod production and sports fields. However, KBG is slow to
Jackie Lyn A. Guevara   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

“The Future Is Ancestral”: The Environmental Cuir Utopias of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Argentinian author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara identifies as a “socio‐environmentalist and writer” and has been actively involved in the feminist movement #NiUnaMenos since 2015, alongside her growing engagement with environmental activism. She advocates for Indigenous land rights, water accessibility, and challenges offshore petroleum extraction ...
Victoria Jara
wiley   +1 more source

Extending sensor networks into the cloud using Amazon web services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Sensor networks provide a method of collecting environmental data for use in a variety of distributed applications. However, to date, limited support has been provided for the development of integrated environmental monitoring and modeling applications ...
Hughes, D, Joosen, W, Lee, K, Murray, D
core   +2 more sources

Election Fraud in the American Mind

open access: yesSocial Science Quarterly, Volume 107, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective Disputes over election fraud have become a defining feature of contemporary American politics, yet it remains unclear whether partisans are disagreeing about the same underlying phenomenon. This article examines how Americans understand and interpret the phrase “election fraud” and whether partisan divisions reflect differences in ...
Mitchell Brown   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scale-dependent rigidity of polymer-ornamented membranes

open access: yes, 2002
We study the fluctuation spectrum of fluid membranes carrying grafted polymers. Contrary to usual descriptions, we find that the modifications induced by the polymers cannot be reduced to the renormalization of the membrane bending rigidity.
Bickel, Thomas, Marques, Carlos M.
core   +2 more sources

Climate‐Smart Dairy Practices: The Role of Practice Clusters in Enhancing the Performance of Dairy Farms in Kenya

open access: yesAgribusiness, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 717-732, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT Climate variability is affecting the productivity, profitability, and resilience of smallholder dairy producers in developing countries. The adoption of climate‐smart (CS) dairy practices has been promoted to mitigate these negative effects. However, while interest in dairy CS practices is growing, empirical evidence on their adoption patterns
Mercy Mburu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Comparison on Fine-grained Pre-trained Embeddings for the WMT19Chinese-English News Translation Task

open access: yesConference on Machine Translation, 2019
This paper describes our submission to the WMT 2019 Chinese-English (zh-en) news translation shared task. Our systems are based on RNN architectures with pre-trained embeddings which utilize character and sub-character information. We compare models with
Zhenhao Li, Lucia Specia
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of Sustainable Agricultural Practices on Labor Use Among Rice Farmers in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam

open access: yesAgribusiness, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 845-861, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT The Mekong Delta (MKD), Vietnam has achieved high rice productivity through rapid intensification. However, this progress has led to environmental degradation and adverse economic and health effects. To mitigate these challenges, sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) have been promoted.
Nguyen Thi Thu Hien   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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