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The Role of Skills and Tasks in Gender Gaps in Latin America
ABSTRACT In this paper, we explore gender gaps in the labor market in Latin America, incorporating two relevant factors often overlooked: skills and the type of tasks performed at work. The study is based on data from the 2018 Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) for four Latin American countries.
Cristian Bonavida, Leonardo Gasparini
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An Online Path-Planning Strategy for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Crossing Mobile Narrow Passages
Aerial inspection missions over long distances are guided by planning paths with minimum energy consumption, which generally leads to routes with shorter distances.
Leonardo Alves Fagundes-Junior +3 more
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Medicine for the Material World
ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
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Abstract In subduction zones, the locked seismogenic zone is bordered by an upper and a lower transition zone. In these transition zones, deformation is primarily accommodated by an interplay of diffuse viscous deformation within a weak matrix and brittle deformation in stiffer bands and blocks.
L. Casoli, A. Petroccia, F. Giuntoli
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Baroque Chamber Music Concert, April 22, 2013 [PDF]
This is the concert program of the Baroque Chamber Music Concert performance on Monday, April 22, 2013 at 8:00 p.m., at Robinson Chapel, 735 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
School of Music, Boston University
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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The evolution of Old and Middle English texts: linguistic form and practices of literacy [PDF]
The late, great paleographer Malcolm Parkes used to opine that 'the greatest mistake a paleographer makes is to forget the nature of the text being copied'. The axiom is a powerful one that has relevance not simply for the sub-discipline of paleography
Smith, Jeremy
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Measurements of the beta-decay properties of r-process nuclei below A=110 have been completed at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, at Michigan State University.
A. Aprahamian +33 more
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ABSTRACT Drought events represent an ever‐growing concern in Mediterranean areas. The occurrence and intensity of this abiotic stress can variously affect the growth and productivity of common bean. In order to shed light on the impact of the drought stress on the growth and agronomic performance of the crop, forty‐four landraces and two testers were ...
Giovanni Preiti +3 more
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Genetic variability of Nero Lucano pig breed at IGF2, LEP, MC4R, PIK3C3, RYR1 and VRTN loci
The Nero Lucano pig is a native breed of Southern Italy which thanks to the joint action of Basilicata Region Institutions, University of Basilicata and breeders returned to populate the area of origin.
Carmelisa Valluzzi +2 more
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