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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collaborating with transnational families: Learning from the experiences of family caretakers, educators, psychologists, and spiritual leaders in Honduras

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript centers on the experiences of caretakers of minors in Honduran transnational families (TNFs) in which one or both parents emigrated, and of the schoolteachers, professional psychologists, and spiritual leaders working with these families.
Marco Gemignani, Yolanda Hernández‐Albújar, Nerea Larrinaga‐Bidegain   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Responsibilities with conflicting priorities: a qualitative study of ACT providers’ experiences with community treatment orders

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Patients with severe mental illness may be subjected to Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) in order to secure that the patients adhere to treatment.
Hanne Kilen Stuen, Anne Landheim, Jorun Rugkåsa, Rolf Wynn   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Parents Served by Assertive Community Treatment: A Needs Based Assessment [PDF]

, 2012
poster abstractAssertive Community Treatment (ACT) represents an effective treatment for individuals with severe mental illness. Though studies estimate roughly half of all people with severe mental illness are parents, little is known about consumers ...
McGrew, John H., Salyers, Michelle P., White, Laura M.   +2 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Unifying Scaling Relations and Multiple Reaction Mechanisms for Screening Transition Metal‐Doped Co3O4 for Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Doped Co3O4 climbs a mechanistic volcano: transition‐metal substitution reshapes the OER activity landscape, while multiple competing reaction mechanisms govern the volcano trends across different dopants. ABSTRACT Accelerating the discovery of oxygen‐evolution reaction (OER) catalysts requires high‐throughput screening strategies combining descriptor ...
Kapil Dhaka, Hatem M. A. Amin, Davide Beschi, Dana Schellenburg, Benjamin Mockenhaupt, Stephan Barcikowski, Stephan Schulz, Kai S. Exner   +7 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Zero tolerance policing: new authoritarianism or new liberalism? [PDF]

, 2002
The notion of “zero tolerance” policing has been widely discussed in the media in recent years and has received considerable support from politicians right across the political spectrum both in the USA and the UK. Proponents of this apparently “get-tough”
Hopkins Burke, RD
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Enabling occupational therapy students to take a fresh approach to psychosis [PDF]

, 2006
This practice evaluation describes the implementation of a 2-day workshop on psychosis with third-year undergraduate occupational therapy students at Brunel University.
Blank, A, Craik, C, Gallagher, M, Hayward, M   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue, Peter Anderson, Mark Brimble   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of five years versus two years of specialised assertive intervention for first episode psychosis - OPUS II: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2011
Background The Danish OPUS I trial randomized 547 patients with first-episode psychosis to a two-year early-specialised assertive treatment programme (OPUS) versus standard treatment.
Gluud Christian, Petersen Lone, Bertelsen Mette, Thorup Anne, Jeppesen Pia, Melau Marianne, Krarup Gertrud, Nordentoft Merete   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source