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“No German, No Service”: EU Migrants’ Unequal Access to Welfare Entitlements in Germany

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2022
While existing research has analysed the intersecting migration and social security law, which stratifies migrants’ formal social entitlements, less work has been done on the informal stratifications beyond the law that determine substantive social ...
Nora Ratzmann
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Parent abuse: Can law be the answer? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
© Cambridge University Press 2012This article reviews the different forms of legal interventions which may be available to address parent abuse. It seeks to examine the evidence as to which are actually used currently and the problems which are inherent ...
Burton   +8 more
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Effect of pair interactions on transition probabilities between inactive and active states: achieving collective behaviour via pair interactions in social insects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
To understand the evolution of well-organized social behaviour, we must first understand the mechanism by which collective behaviour establishes. In this study, the mechanisms of collective behaviour in a colony of social insects were studied in terms of
Hayashi, Yoshikatsu   +4 more
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Criminal sentiments and behaviours among young people in Hong Kong

open access: yesInternational Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 2017
Criminal attitudes have been found to influence criminal behaviour. Yet this is an understudied area in Hong Kong despite the scholarly interests in youth delinquency.
Wing Hong Chui, Kevin Kwok-Yin Cheng
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Den armeniska frågan

open access: yesKulturella Perspektiv, 2000
For several reasons, genocide may be studied as "folklife". For one thing, mass murdering is often carried out by ordinary people, "like you and me". A second criterion is the collective nature of genocide, which makes it a social behaviour.
Åke Daun
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Fracture simulation for zirconia toughened alumina microstructure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to describe finite element modelling for fracture and fatigue behaviour of zirconia toughened alumina microstructures. Design/methodology/approach - A two-dimensional finite element model is developed with an actual
Forest, Bernard   +2 more
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Stakeholder Protection and Corporate Social Responsibility from a Comparative Company Law Perspective: Nigeria and South Africa

open access: yesJournal of African Law, 2020
There have been notable legislative advancements, as well as improvements in corporate governance codes, aimed at protecting stakeholder rights. However, how much protection have they really afforded stakeholders against socially irresponsible corporate ...
Nojeem Amodu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Digital Dominance and Social Media Platforms: Are Competition Authorities Up to the Task?

open access: yesIIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 2023
Social media platforms, as a particular species of digital platforms offering multiple online services and electronic commerce opportunities, have been under increasing scrutiny by competition enforcement agencies in recent years for engaging in ...
B. Ong, Ding Jun Toh
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Second-chance punitivism and the contractual governance of crime and incivility: New Labour, old Hobbes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The growing application of mechanisms of contractual governance to behaviour that breaches social norms, rather than the criminal law, appears to represent an ethopolitical concern with delinquent self-reform through the activation of technologies of the
Garland D.   +6 more
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Measuring following behaviour in gift giving by utility function: statistical model and empirical evidence from China

open access: yesHumanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022
Gift giving is a prevalent social custom, particularly in Chinese society. Since people do not act independently of social norms, they are also motivated by the views of others when giving gifts. However, there is no existing literature on this important
Tao Zhang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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