Buffer or Suffer

Labour as a Buffer : Do Temporary Workers Suffer ? Alison

Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer? In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a “buffer stock” model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on fixed-term contracts than comparable white males. Using ...

Labour as a Buffer: Do temporary workers suffer?

In this paper we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a “buffer stock” model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on fixed-term contracts than comparable white males. Using three different British datasets (a random represe...

Diafiltration for Desalting or Buffer Exchange

Diafiltration is an ultrafiltration membrane technique for completely removing, replacing, or lowering the concentration of salts or solvents from solutions containing proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, and other biomolecules. The process selectively uses permeable (porous) membrane filters to separate the components of solutions and suspensions based on their molecular size. Smaller molecules ...

Suffer the children

We all know that prevention is better than cure, but provincial ministries of health devote less than 1% of their budgets to prevention of mental health problems. Most of the money goes toward treatment. We want teenagers unprepared for parenthood to stop having children, but we are unwilling to invest in family planning, educational and preventive services. The result: Teenage pregnancy in Can...

Suffer the little children...