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High‐Performance Millimeter Scale Electromagnetic Generator

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A high‐performance millimeter‐scale electromagnetic generator (mmEMG) is developed using magnetic flux concentrator (MFC) films on both coil ends to enhance magnetic flux. Through simulations and experiments, structural and magnetic properties are optimized, achieving a 5.6‐fold electrical output improvement.
Jin Pyo Lee   +5 more
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Social mobility

2022
In this chapter the author will attempt to unravel the differences of approach and interpretation surrounding the topic, tracing how understandings of social mobility have developed since the early twentieth century and explaining what is at stake in contemporary conceptions of Britain's mobility crisis.
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Social Mobilization

Annual Review of Psychology, 2018
This article reviews research from several behavioral disciplines to derive strategies for prompting people to perform behaviors that are individually costly and provide negligible individual or social benefits but are meaningful when performed by a large number of individuals.
Todd, Rogers   +2 more
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Education and Social Mobility

2023
Family background is a strong determinant of an individual’s educational achievement and labor market success. Using an economics framework, intergenerational persistence in socioeconomic status can be explained by a variety of factors, including parental investment behavior, credit constraints, and the degree of inequality in society.
Holmlund, Helena, Nybom, Martin
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Social Mobility and Immigrants or Immigrants and Social Mobility

American Sociological Review, 1983
Raftery raises three issues in his comment. First, we got some of our four-fold tables wrong-including farm fathers when we said we didn't. He seems to be right-and for two populations, the Philippines and Puerto Rico, our errors are consequential. Our Canadian error turns out not to be so. The difference between his and our collapsing of the Hungarian
Andrea Tyree, Moshe Semyonov
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Mobilizing Social Capital

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021
Much of the research on mobilizing social capital focuses on the idea that potential resources accessible through existing relationships are converted into actual resources, such as a productive co...
Rondi, Emanuela   +2 more
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Mobile Social Commerce

2017
S-commerce and M-commerce become buzz word recent years. The social and mobile elements have brought new ways of thinking as well as challenging opportunities in e-commerce. In this chapter, we firstly introduce the concepts of online social commerce, its classifications and social shopping behaviors.
Balagué, Christine, Zhao, Zhenzhen
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Social Mobility and Fertility

Annual Review of Sociology, 1985
Studies in a number of different countries, which have shown that rates of mobility between different occupational classes are more alike than they were expected to be, have raised questions about the mechanisms underlying social mobility. In preparation for a large-scale investigation, we have made two small pilot studies designed to clarify certain ...
John O. G. Billy, John D. Kasarda
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Social Mobility and Fertility [PDF]

open access: possibleAmerican Sociological Review, 1971
In several recent studies the effects of mobility or status inconsistency on a dependent variable have been quantified by means of an an additive model in which sets of constants have been fitted to two principles of classification. In examining a particular application of this model, the following paper begins by suggesting the possibility that the ...
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Measuring Social Mobility

Journal of Economic Theory, 1993
Abstract The paper considers the ranking of mobility matrices in a simple Markov model of social mobility. The approach is the dynamic counterpart ot the "static" inequality ranking of income distributions by the Lorenz curve. The derived partial ordering is motivated by welfare considerations, is shown to be equivalent to same intuitive mobility ...
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