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Invisible parenting? Middle-class choice within schools in Denmark

open access: yesEducation Inquiry
When given school choice, middle-class parents are known to use various strategies that increase segregation. This has also been observed in Nordic countries despite their belief in equality and the norm of children’s autonomy.
Rikke Brown, Jakob Ditlev Bøje
doaj   +1 more source

Graphs with specified degree distributions, simple epidemics and local vaccination strategies

open access: yes, 2007
Consider a random graph, having a pre-specified degree distribution F but other than that being uniformly distributed, describing the social structure (friendship) in a large community. Suppose one individual in the community is externally infected by an
Britton, Tom   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

IMPDH inhibition enhances cytarabine efficacy in SAMHD1‐expressing leukaemia cells via guanine nucleotide depletion

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Cytarabine is a key therapy for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), but its efficacy is limited by the dNTPase SAMHD1, which hydrolyses its active metabolite. Screening nucleotide biosynthesis inhibitors revealed that IMPDH inhibitors selectively sensitise SAMHD1‐proficient AML cells to cytarabine.
Miriam Yagüe‐Capilla   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

'The Community Workers Don't Need to Know': The Impact of Criminalisation and the Humanitarian Approach in an Association That Supports Sex Workers in Paris

open access: yesGender a Výzkum
This article presents an ethnographic study of an association in Paris that supports sex workers. Drawing on literature on Marxist feminism of social reproduction and humanitarianism, this paper analyses how the association became economically dependent ...
Sofia Del Vita
doaj   +1 more source

The regulations of honour: an attempt at a Weberian and anthropological enquiry through the prism of a Spanish trading group [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
: This paper is concerned with a rather neglected issue in sociological analysis: honour as a value and regulating principle of social life. The attempt is made to study honour from a perspective which pays attention to both the carriers of honour and ...
Frade, C
core   +2 more sources

Rethinking plastic waste: innovations in enzymatic breakdown of oil‐based polyesters and bioplastics

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Plastic pollution remains a critical environmental challenge, and current mechanical and chemical recycling methods are insufficient to achieve a fully circular economy. This review highlights recent breakthroughs in the enzymatic depolymerization of both oil‐derived polyesters and bioplastics, including high‐throughput protein engineering, de novo ...
Elena Rosini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regulation of the process of social reproduction of rural territories under depopulation conditions

open access: yesSiberian Journal of Life Sciences and Agriculture
Background.  The article is devoted to the study of the problem of social reproduction of rural territories under depopulation conditions complicated with consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dianna V. Khripkova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social determinants of human reproduction [PDF]

open access: yesHuman Reproduction, 2001
Developed countries have experienced both some population growth and unprecedented declines in fertility rates during the last half of the twentieth century. Couples now have fewer than two children on average in most European countries and they tend to postpone these births until a later age.
openaire   +2 more sources

Beyond Biology: The Politics of Adoption & Reproduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
It is exciting simply to be having this conference focused on adoption law and policy. I remember some nine years ago starting to plan a course dealing with adoption issues and wondering whether I would be able to justify its place in the Harvard Law ...
Bartholet, Elizabeth
core   +1 more source

Self-identity, embodiment and the development of emotional resilience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. Copyright @ The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers.
Bonanno   +9 more
core   +4 more sources

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