Magnetic domains walls are known to be a source of electrical resistance due to the difficulty for transport electron spins to follow their magnetic texture. This phenomenon holds potential for utilization in spintronic devices, ...
Nanophysics
Jun 2, 2023
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Experts from the University of Manchester have claimed that the government is misleading the public by claiming that modern slavery can be eradicated by toughening up border controls and extending sentence lengths for offenders.
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2022
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A new study has exploded four common myths around human trafficking in Australia, debunking the perception that offenders are exclusively male, foreigners, unknown to their victims and use physical force to control them.
Social Sciences
Jun 2, 2022
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Preventing sexual abuse in humanitarian settings is a top priority for the World Health Organization, its chief insisted Friday, amid pressure from donors over an abuse scandal in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Social Sciences
Jan 28, 2022
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When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global production and distribution, it shone a spotlight on the fault lines running through some of the world's supply chains, which—according to a group of Stanford human rights researchers—have ...
Economics & Business
Dec 20, 2021
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In 2008 Austrian man Josef Fritzl was found to have confined and abused his daughter, Elisabeth, in a complex beneath his home for 24 years. The extreme nature of the case—its prolonged duration, Elisabeth's multiple pregnancies ...
Social Sciences
Nov 19, 2021
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Climate change-related disasters are worsening the vulnerabilities of women and girls as essential health services including family planning get overlooked during such times, a report says.
Social Sciences
Sep 6, 2021
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Crop diseases threaten yields in the field. Pests and parasitic weeds cause high crop losses of up to 30 percent every year. In the FarmerSpace project, the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image ...
Agriculture
Jun 1, 2021
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Ecologists at the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology have for the first time demonstrated the enormously high and also very specific species diversity of the deep sea in a comparison of 20 deep-sea basins in the ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 27, 2021
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Research by the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab has identified that slavery and human trafficking are present in 90 per cent of modern wars.
Social Sciences
Oct 23, 2020
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