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Gender and Anticipatory Labour in the Gig Economy: How Employability Is Unequally Performed by Women and Men on Project‐Based Platforms

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Work mediated by digital labour platforms is often framed as flexible and autonomous, yet accessing paid tasks commonly requires extensive unpaid effort. Drawing on 65 qualitative interviews with Australian workers on project‐based platforms (including Airtasker, Fiverr and Freelancer), we develop the concept of anticipatory labour: the unpaid,
Brendan Churchill, Kate Dangar, Asangi Mira Gunawansa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Molecular characterization of livestock-associated ticks and tick-borne bacteria in Xinjiang, northwestern China. [PDF]

Parasit Vectors
Tan H, Dong X, Kang J, Bu N, Zhang Y, Qi Z, Li Z, Zhang Z, Zhang X, Wang H, Ding Y, Liu Y, Zhao L.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Financial Climate‐Risk Measurement, Impact Funds, and Green Transitions

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Regulators are contemplating or mandating precise measurement of financial climate‐risk exposure to promote sustainable investments. We show that such mandates can be counterproductive in the presence of social funds that catalyze change by subsidizing the adoption of cleaner production technologies.
VOLKER LAUX, LUCAS MAHIEUX
wiley   +1 more source

Market orientation and national homicide rates

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract We studied the influence of market orientation on national homicide rates. Multiple theoretical traditions equate the development and dominance of markets with higher crime rates. Some traditional sociological theoretical claims, however, suggest market expansion should reduce violence.
William Alex Pridemore, Meghan L. Rogers
wiley   +1 more source

Farm-level livestock loss and risk factors in Ethiopian livestock production systems. [PDF]

Trop Anim Health Prod
Li Y, Jemberu WT, Mayberry D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Bat Tongues and Foraging: Linking Morphology to Hunting Strategies

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We linked the bat tongue's mediodorsal lobe (MDL), a muscular prominence, to foraging strategies. Aerial hawkers exhibit tall MDLs and prominent forward‐pointing papillae. The MDL may function as a barrier or filter, preventing unintentional ingestion of non‐food material, aiding in prey handling, and controlling food access during fast flight ...
Danilo Russo, Hugo Rebelo, Vanessa Mata, Ana Margarida Augusto, Luca Cistrone, Chiara Belli, Diogo Oliveira   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seasonal variation in mosquito abundance and environmental predictors in semi-pastoral southern Kenya: implications for endemic Rift Valley fever. [PDF]

Parasit Vectors
Gerken KN, Olubowa RR, Chiuya T, Korir M, Fèvre EM, Stringer A, Morse A, Baylis M.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nutrition and Hydration: Moral and Pastoral Reflections [PDF]

, 1992
Committee for Pro-Life Activities, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, April 1992
core   +1 more source

Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
wiley   +1 more source