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Immigration politics, slavery talk: the case for a class perspective [PDF]

, 2015
The UK Modern Slavery Bill, and UK politicians’ obsession with immigration, risk undermining political moves to greater solidarity among all those—migrant and non-migrant—experiencing abuse or unfreedom in their ...
Rogaly, Ben
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On the causes of the African slave trade [PDF]

, 2013
This paper offers an integrated analysis of the forces shaping the emergence of the African slave trade over the early modern period. We focus our attention on two questions.
Acemoglu, Allen, Angeles, Angeles, Angeles, Angeles, Austen, Austin, Austin, Bockstette, Clark, Clark, Cohn, Conrad, De Groot, Diamond, Domar, Eltis, Eltis, Eltis, Eltis, Evans, Fenoaltea, Finley, Floud, Fogel, Galeson, Glaeser, Green, Inikori, Klein, Klein, Kremer, Lovejoy, Manning, McCloskey, McNeill, Mintz, Nunn, Nunn, Olson, Olsson, Pinker, Putterman, Solow, Thomas, Thornton, Tilly, Whatley, Whatley, Williams   +50 more
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A perspective review of applications of the computed tomography (CT) scan imaging technique for microscopic reservoir rock characterization

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
In this review, the application of micro‐CT and medical‐CT scanning in the oil and gas industry has been thoroughly discussed. Recent improvements in DRP and modern imaging techniques in the oil and gas industry have been modeled using both experimental and simulation work.
Achinta Bera, Bharadwaj Shukla, Dhruvikkumar Jogani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Survival at the expense of the weakest? Managing modern slavery risks in supply chains during COVID-19

Journal of Risk Research, 2020
This paper reflects on the implications of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on modern slavery risks in supply chains. We first reason that the global supply and demand shock resulting from COVID-19 exacerbates workers’ vulnerability to modern slavery.
A. Trautrims, M. Schleper, M. Selim Cakir, S. Gold   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Environmental Control for Edible Fungi Cultivation Based on Temporal Information and Deep Learning

Food Bioengineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Currently, there are still prevalent issues in greenhouse environmental regulation, such as response lag, low control accuracy, and difficulty in coping with sudden environmental disturbances. To achieve high‐precision and dynamic control of the edible fungi cultivation environment, this study proposes an edible fungi environmental control ...
Xiangyan Wang, Shuangcheng Huang, Qingbo Lu, Xinyi Guo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unbound: Breaking the Bonds of Modern Day Slavery [PDF]

, 2019
Undergraduate Graphic ...
Calleja, Stephanie
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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
wiley   +1 more source

Modern Slavery Disclosure in the G20: Firm and National-Level Insights

Jurnal Akuntansi
The urgency for firms to disclose modern slavery practices has increased in light of global human rights concerns. This study investigates the firm-level and country-level determinants that influence modern slavery disclosure using panel data from 6,757 ...
Vidya Intani Athfalina
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MODERN SLAVERY IN INDONESIA : STUDY CASE OF MARITIME SLAVERY IN BENJINA KABUPATEN KEPULAUAN ARU MALUKU

Journal of Islamic World and Politics, 2020
The case of maritime slavery that took place in Benjina, significance unpopular, and isolated area in easternmost part of Indonesia shook the world. Hundreds of foreign shipman, seafarers were found enslaved for years.
Anastazia N Wattimena
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The careless use of language in quantum information [PDF]

, 2017
An imperative aspect of modern science is that scientific institutions act for the benefit of a common scientific enterprise, rather than for the personal gain of individuals within them.
Wiesner, K.
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