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IPR Policy Brief
Luke Martinelli
Sep 30, 2017
In recent years, universal basic income (UBI) has moved from the fringes of academic debate to being mooted in mainstream forums as a serious policy proposal. This report addresses the idea’s remarkable rise, exploring why it...
IPR Policy Brief
Luke Martinelli
Sep 30, 2017
In recent years, universal basic income (UBI) has moved from the fringes of academic debate to being mooted in mainstream forums as a serious policy proposal. This report addresses the idea’s remarkable rise, exploring why it...
The Ethics of Astrobiology and the Cosmic Bet Argument
Luca Lo Sapio
Jan 01, 2024
Stephen Weinberg posited in 1977 that as the universe becomes more comprehensible, it appears more meaningless owing to a strict division between facts and values. He seemingly overlooked the consideration of the purposes and...
A Basic Income Trilemma
Luke Martinelli
Jul 31, 2020

As basic income (BI) has ascended the policy agenda, so proposals have come under increasing scrutiny for their affordability and adequacy for meeting need. One common objection to BI has been that it is impossible to design...

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Selectivity-permeability optimization of functionalised CNT-polymer membranes for water treatment

Polymer membranes incorporating carbon nanotubes (CNT) belong to two broad categories: Vertically aligned (VA-CNT) membranes, where the polymer acts solely as a matrix embedding an aligned forest of nanotubes, and thin film...

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Selectivity-permeability optimization of functionalised CNT-polymer membranes for water treatment

Polymer membranes incorporating carbon nanotubes (CNT) belong to two broad categories: Vertically aligned (VA-CNT) membranes, where the polymer acts solely as a matrix embedding an aligned forest of nanotubes, and thin film...

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Exploring the Distributional and Work Incentive Effects of Plausible Illustrative Basic Income Schemes
Luke Martinelli
Jan 01, 0001
Among the many concerns about universal basic income (UBI or basic income), two of the most commonly expressed are that it would have undesirable distributional consequences (by failing adequately to compensate the recipients of...
Exploring the Distributional and Work Incentive Effects of Plausible Illustrative Basic Income Schemes
Luke Martinelli
Jan 01, 0001
Among the many concerns about universal basic income (UBI or basic income), two of the most commonly expressed are that it would have undesirable distributional consequences (by failing adequately to compensate the recipients of...
Coherent backscattering of light by an anisotropic biological network.
The scattering strength of a random medium relies on the geometry and spatial distribution of its components as well as on their refractive index. Anisotropy can, therefore, play a major role in the optimization of the...
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SOI CMOS MEMS infra-red thermal source with carbon nanotubes coating

This abstract presents the development of a Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) CMOS micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) micro-hotplate based infra-red (IR) light source employing a vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes...

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A Basic Income Trilemma
Luke Martinelli
Jul 31, 2020

As basic income (BI) has ascended the policy agenda, so proposals have come under increasing scrutiny for their affordability and adequacy for meeting need. One common objection to BI has been that it is impossible to design...

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A Semantic Framework Supporting Multilayer Networks Analysis for Rare Diseases
Understanding the role played by genetic variations in diseases, exploring genomic variants and discovering disease-associated loci are among the most pressing challenges of genomic medicine. A huge and ever-increasing amount of...
Digital Evidence in Crime
This research was conducted to analyze the risk factors of online violent video games, relationship between these games and social media in terms of conducting crime, and techniques that might be used to prevent crime on social...
Basic Income in the UK

Of all the European welfare states, the UK most clearly represents the liberal regime type - notwithstanding a shift towards 'social investment' under New Labour - as defined by its residual, targeted benefit structure and...

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Basic Income in the UK

Of all the European welfare states, the UK most clearly represents the liberal regime type - notwithstanding a shift towards 'social investment' under New Labour - as defined by its residual, targeted benefit structure and...

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Effects of Ketogenic Diet on Cardiac Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Mice
Luca Walborn
Jan 01, 0001
Ketone bodies have been identified as an important fuel source during physiological and pathological stress. During exercise, augmenting ketone body metabolism in the skeletal muscle may enhance exercise performance while...
Published by: Ursinus College

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