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Negotiating social assistance : the case of the urban poor in Turkey [PDF]

In Turkey, social assistance program has been widely criticized for being inefficient in the provision of relief. Yet there are almost no movements among poor people to make demands couched in rational and critical language for a better program, which ...
Murakami, Kaoru
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Residual tail twisting in ascidian larvae is stabilized by asymmetric myofibrils that resist bilateral symmetry restoration

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Ascidian Ciona larvae initially show strong clockwise tail twisting, which is largely corrected during development. However, a small residual twist remains. This study shows that organized helical myofibrils in tail muscles mechanically stabilize this residual asymmetry, preventing complete restoration of bilateral symmetry and revealing how embryos ...
Yuki S. Kogure, Misaki K. Nishio, Satoru Okuda, Kohji Hotta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

European schemes of social assistance: an empirical analysis of set-ups and distributive impacts [PDF]

This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify ...
Kraus, Margit, Hölsch, Katja
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Allocation plan for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program block grant. 2011/2012.

, 2011
Annua
Connecticut Energy Assistance Program.
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Peer-Assisted Social Media Streaming with Social Reciprocity

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2013
Online video sharing and social networking are cross-pollinating rapidly in today's Internet: Online social network users are sharing more and more media contents among each other, while online video sharing sites are leveraging social connections among users to promote their videos.
Zhi Wang 0001, Chuan Wu 0001, Lifeng Sun, Shiqiang Yang   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

The human gut microbiome across the life course

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Despite significant individual variation and continuous change throughout life, the human gut microbiome follows some life stage‐specific trends. This article provides a brief overview of how gut microbiome composition shifts across different phases of life. Created in BioRender. Özkurt, E. (2026) https://BioRender.com/8q4nrnc.
Alise J. Ponsero, Basak Bahcivanci, Antonietta Hayhoe, Animesh Acharjee, Ezgi Özkurt   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minimum Income Protection and Low-Income Standards: Is Social Assistance Enough for Poverty Alleviation? [PDF]

Minimum income protection and social assistance is the last-resort safety net of the welfare state, targeted to the most vulnerable groups in society. Poverty alleviation is thus one chief objective of such benefits.
Nelson, Kenneth
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Implicaţii morale ale cercetării şi practicii sociologice. O pledoarie pentru etică

Sociologie Românească, 2014
The paper was conceived as a pleading for the consideration of ethical issues and concerns posed by sociological professions. Starting from emphasizing the role and place of ethics in defining professions, the paper develops arguments in favor of ...
Ionel Cioară
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DIMINUAREA STRESULUI LA TINERI

Psihologie
Articolul descrie conținutul programului de intervenții psihologice orientat spre diminuarea nivelului de stres. Experimentul formativ a inclus un număr de 24 tineri cu nivel ridicat și moderat al stresului: 12 tineri în grupul experimental (GE) și 12 în
Irina VLAS
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Socially Assistive Robotics [PDF]

9th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2005. ICORR 2005., 2005
David Feil-Seifer, Maja J. Mataric
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