The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has made lives domestic workers, who are mostly women, more difficult. Building on testimonies workers in South Africa collected between January and August 2021, this article examines everyday violence they face during pandemic. It argues that is greatly amplified pandemic, because virus not only affects workers’ livelihoods, but generates new forms discrimina...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of pain on vertical ground-reaction force (VGRF) in patients with low back problems and the effect of the Pilates method on the gait of these patients. DESIGN A single-blind randomized controlled trial. PARTICIPANTS 28 individuals assigned to a control group (n = 11) and a low-back group (n = 17), the latter of which was subdivided into a Pilates group (n...

Statistics as an independent scientific discipline is relatively young in Finland. Its active history stretches back roughly a century, with the past 50 years signifying period of growth. Few other academics such Elja Arjas, now professor emeritus at University Helsinki, have played prominent role establishing statistics This conversation tries to illuminate how this came happen and what was ne...

Safe access to voting during the Covid-19 pandemic was a concern across US. In Texas, push for mail-in November 2020 presidential election significantly scaled back when governor restricted each county one secure ballot drop-off location. We evaluate effect of this change, finding that it increased travel times locations drivers and public transit users by 18 32 minutes, respectively, in most a...

Abstract Using robots to replace human beings achieve large-scale automatic operations has become an inevitable trend. Wall-climbing have important application value in the field of aerial work. For existing wall-climbing limitation on movement flexibility and overcome own gravity by adsorption friction, this paper innovatively proposes a robot with suspension traction, back push McNum wheel dr...

Steel-concrete-steel (SCS) sandwich panels are composed of two steel plates with low thicknesses and high densities and strengths and one thick layer between both plates with low strength and density known as core that is composed of concrete. Cohesive material-epoxy resin or shear connectors are usually used to connect the plates to the concrete core. SCS sandwich composites are being develope...