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Don\u27t Be Cruel (Anymore): A Look at the Animal Cruelty Regimes of the United States and Brazil with A Call for A New Animal Welfare Agency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In the United States and around the world, animals exploited for human use suffer cruel and needless harm. The group bearing the brunt of this exploitation--agricultural animals--is routinely exempted from the largely ineffective and rarely enforced ...
Cassuto, David N
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The issue of data protection and data security in the (pre-Lisbon) EU third pillar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The key functional operability in the pre-Lisbon PJCCM pillar of the EU is the exchange of intelligence and information amongst the law enforcement bodies of the EU.
O'Neill, Maria
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BEHAVIOR OF THERMAL SPRAY COATINGS AGAINST HYDROGEN ATTACK

open access: yesCT&F Ciencia, Tecnología & Futuro, 2003
The behavior of nickel and chrome alloys applied as thermal spray coatings to be used as protection against embrittlement by hydrogen is studied. Coatings were applied on a carbon steel substrate, under conditions that allow obtain different crystalline ...
Fabio Vargas   +2 more
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Mechanical protection for composite structures submitted to low energy impact [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Composite materials are widely used in aeronautical structures. These materials can be submitted to low energy impacts like tool drop, routine operations… Such impacts can generate damages in the material that significantly reduce the structure strength.
Bouvet, Christophe   +4 more
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Protección social, acción estatal y estructura de riesgos sociales = Social protection, state action and social risk structure

open access: yesTextos & Contextos (Porto Alegre), 2012
This article aims to present some reflections on social protection systems in Latin America. For this, we started from a theoretical reflection on the action of the state and argue that this intervention in social relations is an outcome of the systemic ...
Del Valle, Alejandro Hugo
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A Charger Current–Limiting Scheme to Improve Protection Coordination of Electric Vehicle–Integrated Distribution Systems

open access: yesInternational Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems
Although the development of electric vehicle (EV) technology offers opportunities for reducing CO2 emissions through the electrification of transportation, the integration of EVs into distribution systems poses a significant challenge to the reliable ...
Majid Tavoosi   +3 more
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Organic farming: implications for costs of production and provisioning of environmental services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The report is part of the project 'Farm Accountancy Cost Estimation and Policy Analysis of European Agriculture' (FACEPA). The overall aim of this report is to contrast organic and conventional forms of commodity production in terms of costs and ...
Berner, Anja   +5 more
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Réforme de la protection de l'emploi et inégalités face au chômage dans un modèle d'appariement [PDF]

open access: yes
Cet article s'intéresse aux effets liés à l'introduction d'un système de modulation des cotisations patronales à l'assurance chômage (ou experience rating) sur le niveau et la structure du chômage par qualification. Nous consruisons pour cela un modèle d'
Franck Malherbet, Olivier Charlot
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A Guide to Modeling Credit Term Structures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We give a comprehensive review of credit term structure modeling methodologies. The conventional approach to modeling credit term structure is summarized and shown to be equivalent to a particular type of the reduced form credit risk model, the ...
Berd, Arthur M.
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An Experimental Study on Pitot Probe Icing Protection with an Electro-Thermal/Superhydrophobic Hybrid Strategy

open access: yesAerospace
A series of experiments were carried out to evaluate different anti-/de-icing approaches for a Pitot probe. Using the Iowa State University Icing Research Tunnel (ISU-IRT), this study compared the performance of a traditional electrically heated system ...
Haiyang Hu, Faisal Al-Masri, Hui Hu
doaj   +1 more source

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