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Illegal Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon: Environmental Degradation in Yanomami Indigenous Lands, and Regulatory Failures

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos, Ana Claudia de Araujo Moxotó, Jurandir Moura Dutra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

Crime, Gender and Policing: The Role of Women Officers in Addressing Gender‐Based Violence in India

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether an increased presence of women in Indian police forces results in enhanced justice for victims of gender‐based crimes and improves the overall effectiveness and responsiveness of the police. It employs focus group discussions and qualitative system dynamics modelling to examine the dynamics of women in law ...
Kandaswamy Paramasivan, Thangatur Sukumar Hariharan, Nabila Khan, S. Thejaswin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome in a Patient with Multiple System Atrophy and Multiple Myeloma

Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Jackson Mitzner, Jenny Linnoila, Yanal Shaheen, Abby L. Olsen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Everyone experiences disrupted interactions in their everyday life. However, research indicates that people with functional impairments are particularly exposed to patterns of interactional inequality at work. Despite this, little is known about the specific disrupted interactions in everyday life and the various types of interactional struggles this ...
Ida Friis Thing
wiley   +1 more source

Diving Deeper Into Mechanisms of Acrylamide‐Induced Toxicity: RNA Sequencing Reveals Transcriptomic Alteration and Retrotransposon Expression in Drosophila melanogaster

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the inevitability of human and animal exposure to acrylamide, there is increasing concern regarding its potential health risks. While a number of molecular mechanisms have been proposed, the complexity of acrylamide toxicological pathways and interactions remains incompletely characterized.
Oluwabukola Mary Farodoye, Titilayomi Ayomide Otenaike, Daniela Moreira Mombach, Monica Medeiros Silva, Amos Olalekan Abolaji, Elgion Lucio Da Silva Loreto   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges of Effective Wildlife Law Enforcement in Oyo and Lagos States, Nigeria 尼日利亚奥约州与拉各斯州野生动物执法有效实施所面临的挑战

Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.
Effective wildlife law enforcement is important in the drive for biodiversity conservation. This study examined the challenges of wildlife law enforcement in Oyo and Lagos States of Nigeria across four security outfits (Nigerian Police Force [NPF], Nigerian Customs Service [NCS], National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency ...
Oluwatosin Mercy Dada, Omolola Oluwakemi Ajayi, Oluwakayode Michael Coker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Classification of administrative offenses for driving vehicles

, 2014
Статья посвящена актуальной проблеме – теоретико-правовому исследованию классификации административных правонарушений при управлении транспортными средствами. Автор на основании анализа норм административного законодательства определяет критерии классификации правонарушений при управлении транспортными средствами, которые могут дать наиболее полное ...
Grecianiuc, S., Parhomenco, P.
openaire   +1 more source

The Policy and Politics of Improving Standards in the English Private Rented Sector

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The standard of existing homes in the English private rented sector (PRS) presents several challenges. As the sector has expanded, issues of inadequate renovation, maintenance and upgrading have assumed greater salience. Research has also highlighted enforcement challenges which make it more difficult to raise property standards and improve ...
Alice Earley, Alex Marsh, Ken Gibb
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical phenotypes of psychosis and reoffending risk among justice-involved adolescents: a population-based cohort study. [PDF]

Front Psychiatry
Akpanekpo EI, Butler T.
europepmc   +1 more source