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Apartheid in Miami: Transit Workers Challenge the System [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
[Excerpt] The story that follows will show how Dade County officials and the downtown Miami business establishment attempted to bust the transit union and dismantle a vital public transportation service to Miami\u27s minority, elderly and working-class ...
Banks, Andy, Grenier, Guillermo
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Making homework count: Homework as a collective task for language minority families

open access: yes, 2009
In response to a writing prompt asking, “What can parents do to ensure academic success for their child?” a mother with three children under the age of six wrote: “In my opinion he needs motivation from his parents and interest in his homework. [He needs]
Fox, Kathy R.
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Sociolinguistic and contact-induced variation in Hungarian language use in Subcarpathia, Ukraine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In addition to showing regional and social variation, the language use of the minority Hungarians of Subcarpathia, Ukraine, also presents a reflection of the region’s complex linguistic history and its effects from contact with Russian and Ukrainian.
Csernicskó, István, Fenyvesi, Anna
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A Privacy-Preserving Multilingual Comparable Corpus Construction Method in Internet of Things

open access: yesMathematics
With the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, multilingual scenarios are gradually increasing, and applications based on multilingual resources are also on the rise. In this process, apart from the need
Yu Weng, Shumin Dong, Chaomurilige
doaj   +1 more source

Gourd‐Inspired Design of Unit Cell with Multiple Gradients for Physiological‐Range Pressure Sensing

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Gourd‐shaped micro‐dome arrays with coordinated modulus, conductivity, and geometric gradients co‐optimize sensitivity and linearity in piezoresistive tactile sensors. Under pressure, a solid upper dome embeds into a porous lower dome, triggering rapid contact‐area growth and series‐to‐parallel conduction, enabling unsaturated, intensity‐resolved ...
Jiayi Xu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nanolayer‐Encapsulated Stretchable Liquid‐Metal Sheets for Thermal Management

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A stretchable liquid metal sheet with both high thermal conductivity and mechanical flexibility is developed. Its trilayer structure, comprising copper‐particle‐dispersed gallium liquid metal encapsulated by styrene‐butadiene‐styrene nanosheets, shows 40.4 W m−1 K−1 conductivity, elongation exceeding 200%, and retention of 96% of its initial ...
Daisuke Kuse   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of culturally competent diabetes care interventions for improving diabetes-related outcomes in ethnic minority groups : a systematic review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Aim  To examine the evidence on culturally competent interventions tailored to the needs of people with diabetes from ethnic minority groups. Methods  MEDLINE (NHS Evidence), CINAHL and reference lists of retrieved papers were searched from inception ...
Cannaby, A. M.   +3 more
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