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Labour relations and working conditions of workers on smallholder cocoa farms in Ghana
(2023-06-16)
The millions of farm workers in the Global South are an important resource for smallholder producers. However, research on their labour organisation is limited. This article focuses on smallholder farm workers in Ghana’s cocoa sector, drawing on insights from qualitative interviews and the concept of bargaining power. We review the labour relations and working conditions of two historical and informally identified labour supply setups (LSSs) in Ghana’s cocoa sector, namely, hired labour and Abusa, a form of ...
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Post-Carolingian Geographies of North and West in Rodulfus Glaber
(2023-12-14)
This article evaluates the geographical consciousness of north and west found in the Five Books of the Histories by the eleventh-century Burgundian monk Rodulfus Glaber. In contrast with dominant approaches to medieval geography that have informed prior commentators, who have focused on ideas of Europe or the opposition of east and west, it argues that we must situate Glaber's spatial consciousness first and foremost in the lineage of Carolingian and post-Carolingian conceptions of the north. Focusing especially on ...
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Gesundheit und Studienpensum von Studierenden: Ergebnisse eines Gesundheitssurveys an der Universität Kassel
(2023-04-28)
Einleitung
Über Gesundheit und Krankheit von Studierenden ist relativ wenig bekannt und die Auswirkungen auf den Studienerfolg sind kaum erforscht. Das Ziel der Studie ist, Assoziationen zwischen dem Gesundheitszustand von Studierenden und dem absolvierten Studienpensum zu analysieren.
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Es nahmen 3330 von 23.699 immatrikulierten Studierenden der Universität Kassel an der freiwilligen Befragung („computer assisted web interviews“) im März 2022 teil. Die Rücklaufquote betrug 14,1 % unter Bedingungen der ...
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Shared digital artifacts – Co-creators as beneficiaries in microlearning development
(2023-08-11)
Continuing vocational training benefits from the employees’ ability to share individual experience and expertise with their co-workers, as these assets constitute competitive advantages for companies. IT-supported systems can facilitate processes of knowledge elicitation (e. g. as part of collaborative co-creation) to ensure retainment of preferred qualitative characteristics of the resulting knowledge artifacts and provide ample opportunities to manage and configure a growing number of such artifacts in a company’s ...
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Conditional Freedoms: Non-State Labour in Cuba between Institutional Delegitimisation and Civic Recognition
(2023-09-11)
During the height of its power over everyday life, between 1968 and 1993, the Cuban Communist Party outlawed virtually all non-state labour and exchange. Since then, however, its continuity in power has increasingly depended on devolution: shifting responsibility for the provision of basic goods and services from failing state enterprises back to the self-employed. The latter now produce the majority of food and basic products; receive most of the national income from tourism, remittances and foreign investment; and ...
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Ultra-high performance alkali-activated slag as a reusable mold for light metal casting
(2023-12-06)
Light metal die casting is usually performed using steel molds. However, these lead to a reduced quality of the casting due to the occurrence of metal corrosion on the surface and the incorporation of hydrogen into the casting as a result of required process chemistry. Ultra-high performance concrete based on alkali-activated slag can be used to produce mineral molds for aluminum casting. The use of reusable mineral molds not only enables the production of various thin-walled geometries. The risk of metal corrosion ...
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Numerical detection of synchronization phenomena in quasi-periodic solutions
(2023-10-05)
In science and technology, dynamical systems can show so-called quasi-periodic solutions. These solutions are composed of two or more base frequencies. The solution in the time domain can be represented by an invariant manifold. To parametrize the invariant manifold, we choose the hyper-time parametrization. If quasi-periodic solutions branches are continued by means of a path continuation, the phenomenon of synchronization may occur. This is important, because the hyper-time parametrization is only valid, as long ...
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Neural network interatomic potential for laser-excited materials
(2023-08-15)
Data-driven interatomic potentials based on machine-learning approaches have been increasingly used to perform large-scale, first-principles quality simulations of materials in the electronic ground state. However, they are not able to describe situations in which the electrons are excited, like in the case of material processing by means of femtosecond laser irradiation or ion bombardment. In this work, we propose a neural network interatomic potential with an explicit dependency on the electronic temperature. Taking ...
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Mental health and stress level of Ukrainians seeking psychological help online
(2023-11-04)
Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, more than 8 million Ukrainians have been displaced from their homes. Ukrainians exposed to armed conflict and migration are likely to have low levels of mental health status and seek help. We provide a uniform quantitative assessment of the mental health conditions of Ukrainians seeking help soon after the invasion and resettlement. We screen the mental well-being and psychological distress of 1165 refugees, migrants, internally displaced, and non-displaced ...
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Verbesserung der CO₂-Bilanz von Kalksandsteinen durch den Einsatz von Sägeschlamm als Optimierungszuschlag
(2023-12-06)
Rund 20% der aus den Rohstoffen Kalk, Sand und Wasser hergestellten Kalksandsteine (KS) in KS-XL-Formaten werden zur Vorkonfektionierung gesägt. Dabei fallen in den KS-Werken insgesamt rd. 20.000 t Sägeschlämme pro Jahr an, die derzeit keiner gezielten Verwendung zugeführt werden. Allerdings handelt es sich dabei bereits unter Einsatz von CO₂-intensivem Branntkalk gehärtetes Material, welches als Optimierungszusatz genutzt werden kann.
Insgesamt 13 verschiedene Sägeschlämme (SäS) wurden hinsichtlich ihrer Eignung ...