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summary EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. This book explores how children’s rights are practised and weighed against birth and adoptive parents’ rights and examines how governments and professionals balance rights when it is decided that children cannot return to parental care. From different socio-political and legal contexts in Europe and the United States, it provides an in-depth analysis of concepts of family, contact, the child’s best-interest principle...

summary EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Individuals’ behaviours at work are known to be shaped by cold, or cognitive-motivational, processes as well as hot, or affect-motivational, processes. To date, employee proactivity research has mainly focused on the ‘cold’ side. But emotion has been proposed to ‘energize’ employees’ proactivity, especially in interdependent and uncertain work environments. In this pioneering work, expert scholars offer...

 E-Mail Soon after E.L. Jamess Fifty Shades of Grey appeared in 2015, the book market was inundated with a flood of erotic bestsellers. People from all corners began wondering what this type of novels secret of success could be. Now, a research team at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, has taken a closer look at the readership of erotic novels and investigated the causes of this literary predilection. In the media as well as the academy, cont...

Third Iron Announces Available LibKey Integration with CAB Direct LibKey simplifies and accelerates full text access for researchers using CAB Direct News provided by Share this article Share this article ST. PAUL, Minn., May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Third Iron, LLC, a leading information technology company developing innovative services for libraries, publishers and their users, announced the availability of LibKey integration for libraries subscribing to CABI databases on CAB Direct. LibKey ...

Open access ‘excludes’ developing world scientists A model that charges researchers to publish their work in open access journals hurts many researchers in the global South. Copyright: National Institutes of Health, USA, public domain image. Speed read Salaries of researchers in developing world range from US$350 to about US$3,000 Waiver systems ‘too complex and bureaucratic’ Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in print, it’s free unde...

Implementing Industry 4.0 in SMEs Concepts, Examples and Applications This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Explores the differences between large companies and SMEs and their capabilities in terms of implementing Industry 4.0 Outlines the challenges that SMEs will face in the coming years relating to AI, automation and new technology Presents practical applications, tools and examples for successful implementation of Industry 4.0 strategiessee more benef...

This open access book asks whether cash-transfer programs for very low-income households promote social and economic citizenship and, if so, under what conditions. To this end, it brings together elements that are too often considered separately: the transformation of social and economic citizenship rights in a market-centered context, and the increasing popularity of cash transfer as an instrument both of social policy and humanitarian action. We link these by juxtaposing theoretical treatment...

Columbia University Irving Medical Center Silver nanoclusters-which could be applied to the treatment of cancer in the future-block an early step of DNA replication, a new study by researchers in the Institute for Cancer Genetics at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center has found. Silver nanoclusters, which contain just a few to tens of atoms, are a more recent addition to the collection of silver nanomaterials, includi...

Open Access BPO Invests $20 Million to Expand Taipei Knowledge Process Outsourcing Facility News provided by Share this article Share this article TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Multinational business process outsourcing (BPO) firm, Open Access BPO, announced its investment to expand its multilingual knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) and call operations. The investment adds a new Taiwan office. The global outsourcing firm has facilities in China, the Philippines, and its US head...

Published on: 5 May 2021 Marine scientists are calling on the EU to adopt a comprehensive plan to protect dolphins and porpoises from fisheries bycatch in European waters. A team of conservation experts, including Newcastle University’s Professor Per Berggren, highlight limitations in EU’s efforts to address and mitigate bycatch. The scientists argue this infective response is a result of scattered and complicated management responsibility for the conservation of dolphins and porpoises in ...