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Occupational Conditions and Well‐Being Among Informal Waste Pickers in Hong Kong: A Comparative Study of 2018 and 2023

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Informal waste pickers play a crucial role in urban recycling systems but often face precarious employment and systematic marginalization. This study examines the evolving demographic, occupational, and health trends of informal waste pickers in Hong Kong between 2018 and 2023.
Siu‐Ming Chan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Technological relatedness and regional branching [PDF]

open access: yes
The relatedness between the technologies used among firms in a region is thought to affect the nature and scope of knowledge spillovers. In this paper, we set out how the concepts of technological relatedness and related variety have enriched recent ...
Koen Frenken, Ron Boschma
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An effective, low-cost measure of semantic relatedness obtained from Wikipedia links [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper describes a new technique for obtaining measures of semantic relatedness. Like other recent approaches, it uses Wikipedia to provide structured world knowledge about the terms of interest.
Ian H. Witten   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
wiley   +1 more source

Possibilities for strengthening nature experiences and nature stewardship in the ‘not yet engaged’

open access: yesEcosystems and People
It is commonly argued that encouraging people to spend time in nature and appreciate nature is an important conduit for encouraging engagement in conservation stewardship actions.
Angela Dean   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring Industry Relatedness and Corporate Coherence [PDF]

open access: yes
Since the seminal work of Teece et al. (1994) firm diversification has been found to be a non-random process. The hidden deterministic nature of the diversification patterns is usually detected comparing expected (under a null hypothesys) and actual ...
Davide Pirino, Giulio Bottazzi
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Biologics Adoption in CRSwNP and the Associated Decline in Endoscopic Sinus Surgery: A Longitudinal Claims Database Study

open access: yesInternational Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Biologic treatments were introduced for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) in 2019. Treatment algorithms for medically refractory CRSwNP remain open, with patients choosing among surgery, biologics, or both. Real‐world utilization of surgery and biologics remains incompletely characterized.
Stephanie Shintani Smith   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revealed Relatedness: Mapping Industry Space [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we measure technological relatedness between industries using a dataset on product portfolios of plants. For this purpose we first develop a general methodology to extract data on co-occurrences of classes (e.g.
Martin Svensson Henning, Frank Neffke
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Topological indices: their nature, mutual relatedness, and applications

open access: yesMathematical Modelling, 1987
AbstractDuring the last two decades a large number of numerical graph invariants (topological indices) have been defined and used for correlation analysis in theoretical chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, and environmental chemistry. However, no systematic study has been undertaken to determine to what extent these indices are correlated with each ...
Basak, S.C.   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Genetic Resilience and Resistance in Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis and Pathology

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Some individuals avoid Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology as they age, or retain cognition despite substantial pathology, suggesting mechanisms of resistance or resilience to neurodegeneration. Educational attainment (EA) is associated with reduced risk of cognitive decline, although the underlying mechanisms remain unclear.
Ganna Leonenko   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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