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Bio‐Based Amino Acid Curing Additives: Mechanistic and Kinetic Effects in Epoxidized Soybean Oil Epoxy Thermosets

open access: yesJournal of Vinyl and Additive Technology, EarlyView.
The curing process of epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) is feasible through the incorporation of amino acids, generating materials with greater thermal stability and improved environmental friendliness. ABSTRACT In this study, the curing and thermal degradation kinetics of epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) were investigated using L‐aspartic acid (AA) and DL ...
Nicole P. Soares   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Inflation: The Adequacy of Out‐of‐Home Care Allowances in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research Question This study examines whether home‐based (foster, kinship or relative) out‐of‐home care (OOHC) allowances in New South Wales, Australia, adequately reflect the contemporary costs of caring for children. Research Findings We find that real median expenditure among families with children increased by 23%–30% between 2006 and 2022,
Ou Yang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Feasibility of Household Food Waste Reduction in Finland: Insights From Five Consumer Profiles

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We apply a household production framework to analyse how changes in cooking skills, waste‐abatement costs and wage rates influence the food waste behaviour of five consumer profiles in Finland. We find that achieving a given reduction in food waste through skill‐enhancing interventions induces larger behavioural adjustments than equivalent ...
Aino Friman, Dušan Drabik
wiley   +1 more source

Chronic Disease and Disability in the United States: Trends, Inequities, and Imperatives for Policy Reform

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Position Universal, High‐Quality Education as a Foundational Public Health Strategy. Long‐term health and life expectancy in the United States are shaped more by educational attainment than by any other single factor. Disparities in access to early childhood, K‐12, and higher education perpetuate cycles of chronic disease, economic ...
ALI H. MOKDAD   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
wiley   +1 more source

Pushing the Boundaries: Studies on Consumers and Food Demand in the Journal of Agricultural Economics

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We summarize the development of consumer economics and food demand in the Journal of Agricultural Economics over the past 100 years. Even from an early stage, the role of marketing agricultural products in a thriving agricultural sector was recognized within the works published in the Journal.
Jill E. Hobbs, Jutta Roosen
wiley   +1 more source

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