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Assessing the impact of social housing on urban regeneration in South African cities

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities
Urban regeneration in South Africa addresses historical spatial inequalities and the growing demand for affordable housing. This study examines the impact of social housing on urban regeneration, with a particular focus on the role of the Social Housing ...
Noxolo N. Ngema   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing a peer-led intervention to promote COVID-19 testing in low-income housing settings

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundThe Housing Collaborative project at Eastern Virginia Medical School has developed a method of adapting public health guidance from public housing communities, which face tremendous health challenges in cardiometabolic health, cancer, and other
Andrew D. Plunk   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Organizing Integration in the Swedish Labor and Housing Markets

open access: yesNordic Journal of Migration Research
Policies for refugees’ settlement, housing, and employment are usually not formulated or analyzed in relation to each other. This study aims to address the dialectical relationship among settlement, housing, and labor market activation policies for ...
Susanne Urban   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Housing: Basic Consumer Requirements

open access: yesAcademia: Архитектура и строительство, 2019
Social housing exists in all economically developed countries as a form of providing housing to needy categories of citizens. It plays essential role in social and demographical development regulation in the society (the housing availability affects on ...
Irina D. Verevkina
doaj   +1 more source

Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organ‐specific redox imbalances in spinal muscular atrophy mice are partially rescued by SMN antisense oligonucleotides

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We identified a systemic, progressive loss of protein S‐glutathionylation—detected by nonreducing western blotting—alongside dysregulation of glutathione‐cycle enzymes in both neuronal and peripheral tissues of Taiwanese SMA mice. These alterations were partially rescued by SMN antisense oligonucleotide therapy, revealing persistent redox imbalance as ...
Sofia Vrettou, Brunhilde Wirth
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable financing models for long-term viability in social and affordable housing projects in South Africa

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities
The lack of sustainable financing options remains a critical constraint on the development of social and affordable housing, particularly in rapidly urbanising contexts such as South Africa. High and volatile borrowing costs, short debt tenors and rising
N. N. Ngema, N. N. Ngema, V. Chauke
doaj   +1 more source

Tecnema Social Housing

open access: yesTechne, 2011
The project is a collaboration between the company Termocasa in Reggio Calabria and the research unit Stoa, of the Department DASTEC of the University of Reggio Calabria.
Alberto De Capua
doaj   +1 more source

Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Work or Relief Work? A Crisis in Professional Social Work

open access: yesSocial Change Review, 2015
Social work is a sharing and caring profession based on scientific methods. This problem solving profession makes people self-reliant and self-dependent when he/she is in any sorts of crises.
Adhikari Harasankar
doaj   +1 more source

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