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The impact of tool selection on back and wrist injury risk in tying steel reinforcement bars: a single case experiment

Construction Economics and Building, 2019
The paper explores the risk of work-related musculoskeletal injury in tying steel reinforcement bars. Three tools are compared to determine the extent to which ergonomic tools can reduce the risk of injury to the back and wrist in steel-tying.
Helen Lingard, Isaac Selva Raj, Noel Lythgo, Olga Troynikov, Chris Fitzgerald   +4 more
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Business and social entrepreneurs in the UK : gender, context and commitment [PDF]

, 2011
Objectives: What sort of people become social entrepreneurs, and in what way do they differ from business entrepreneurs? This question is important for policy because there has been a shift from direct to indirect delivery of many public services ...
Fidelma Ashe, Jonathan Levie, Mark Hart
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Designing healthy communities: creating evidence on metrics for built environment features associated with walkable neighbourhood activity centres

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2017
Background Evidence-based metrics are needed to inform urban policy to create healthy walkable communities. Most active living research has developed metrics of the environment around residential addresses, ignoring other important walking locations ...
Lucy Dubrelle Gunn, Suzanne Mavoa, Claire Boulangé, Paula Hooper, Anne Kavanagh, Billie Giles-Corti   +5 more
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Narratives of social inclusion in the context of Roma school segregation [PDF]

, 2015
Despite a series of judgements from the European Court of Human Rights and the enactment of the EU Racial Equality Directive, the educational segregation of Roma pupils persists in several European states.
O'Nions, H
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Think Fast!: Vervet Monkeys Assess the Risk of Being Displaced by a Dominant Competitor When Making Foraging Decisions

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Foraging animals need to quickly assess the costs and benefits of different foraging decisions, including resource quantity, quality, preference, ease of access, dispersion, distance, and predation risk.
T. Jean M. Arseneau-Robar, T. Jean M. Arseneau-Robar, T. Jean M. Arseneau-Robar, Karyn A. Anderson, Karyn A. Anderson, Eric N. Vasey, Eric N. Vasey, Pascale Sicotte, Julie A. Teichroeb, Julie A. Teichroeb   +9 more
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An exploratory analysis of the interactions between social norms and the built environment on cycling for recreation and transport

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background There is growing evidence of the public health benefits of promoting cycling. The ways that the built environment and perceived social norms independently influence cycling participation is well established.
Matthew Bourke, Toni A Hilland, Melinda Craike   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unfair Access to Justice for Non-Indonesian Speakers

Dialogia Iuridica
Legal interpreter assistance has a direct impact on the outcomes of legal cases. This paper examines the availability of legal interpreters in Bali as one of the two provinces in Indonesia with the highest demand for legal interpreters and its impact on ...
Eni Candra Tampubolon
doaj   +1 more source

The threats of social networking : old wine in new bottles? [PDF]

, 2011
Despite the many potential benefits to its users, social networking appears to provide a rich setting for criminal activities and other misdeeds. In this paper we consider whether the risks of social networking are unique and novel to this context ...
Smeed, Duncan, Toolan, Fergus, Weir, George   +2 more
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Additively Separable Hedonic Games with Social Context

Games, 2021
In hedonic games, coalitions are created as a result of the strategic interaction of independent players. In particular, in additively separable hedonic games, every player has valuations for all other ones, and the utility for belonging to a coalition ...
Gianpiero Monaco, Luca Moscardelli, Yllka Velaj   +2 more
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Academic (Under)achievement of Intellectually Gifted Students in the Transition Between Primary and Secondary Education: An Individual Learner Perspective

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
In the last decade, the Achievement Orientation Model (AOM) of Siegle and McCoach has often been used to quantitatively explore different pathways for academic achievement among intellectually gifted students in educational settings, mostly in secondary ...
Katelijne Barbier, Vincent Donche, Karine Verschueren   +2 more
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