The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown in India resulted women informal economy workers being out of jobs with no social security blanket to rely on. Women community leaders therefore worked the state reach most vulnerable marginalised populations. This decentralised units where decisions are made at level a collective fashion including critical diverse stakeholders, collaboration author...

As in many countries, the economies of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) have been negatively affected by global COVID-19 pandemic. Their governments responded addressing health impacts providing relief to businesses workers. Many EECCA countries also implemented measures that will help advance environmental objectives as part their rescue recovery plans. Nevertheless, much more...

exposing the ear to an intense noise will probably cause to hearing loss. this loss may be temporary threshold shift (tts), permanent threshold shift (pts), or a combination of the two. the average audiograms for the 157 textile workers, exposed to an average 100 db (a) overall noise level, in 5 age groups indicated that the losses were most prominent for frequencies of 3 to 6 kc/s showing a pe...

The requirements that are placed on today’s grid are changing. Traditional power flows from power stations to the nearest big city are giving way to more complex patterns. Growing consumption and power trading mean that power must increasingly be transported over large distances. Growth in the use of renewable sources is placing a strain on the system because generation is often located in remo...

What is the nature and function of relief? Relief has been studied little in psychological science despite its familiarity and pervasiveness. Two studies revealed that relief can result from two distinct situations: the narrow avoidance of an aversive outcome (near-miss relief) and completion of an onerous or aversive event (task-completion relief). Study 1 found that recollections of near-miss...