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Training refugee and asylum-seeking doctors: a cohort study of the UK REACHE programme [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Open
Objective Refugee and asylum-seeking (RAS) doctors benefit from specialised support to achieve medical registration, though there is limited published evidence from programmes supporting them.
Aaron Drovandi   +3 more
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An Ethnographic Study of Deaf Refugees Seeking Asylum in Finland [PDF]

open access: goldSocieties, 2019
Deaf asylum seekers are a marginalized group of people in refugee and forced migration studies. The aim of this paper is to explore and highlight the experiences of deaf asylum seekers in the asylum procedure in Finland.
Nina Sivunen
doaj   +2 more sources

Church Asylum

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2014
Church asylum, or sanctuary, is a practice to support, counsel and give shelter to refugees who are threatened with deportation to inhumane living conditions, torture or even death.
Birgit Neufert
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Return of the asylum [PDF]

open access: yesThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 2018
SummaryRates of involuntary admission are increasing in England. Personality disorder should be excluded as a criterion for involuntary admission; stronger restraint reduction programmes should be instigated; and involuntary care should be based on treating illness (something we can do) and not on predicting violence (something we cannot).Declaration ...
Jane, Gilhooley, Brendan D, Kelly
openaire   +2 more sources

Fuzzy logic expert system for evaluating the activity of university teachers

open access: yesInternational Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2021
Assessing the performance of academics at different levels is increasingly difficult to achieve using traditional methods based mainly on numerical scores in evaluating teaching and research activity.
V. Florin Popescu, M. Sorin Pistol
doaj   +1 more source

Retrospective analysis of the Special Olympics Health Promotion database for nutrition-specific variables

open access: yesHeliyon, 2021
Background: Studies have shown that individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) exhibit a high prevalence of obesity and poor-quality diet. The population of individuals with ID include athletes that participate in Special Olympics.
Kaneen Gomez-Hixson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Forecasting asylum-related migration flows with machine learning and data at scale

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
The sudden and unexpected migration flows that reached Europe during the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015–2016 left governments unprepared, exposing significant shortcomings in the field of migration forecasting. Forecasting asylum-related migration is
Marcello Carammia   +2 more
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Integration in the Shadow of Austerity—Refugees in Newcastle upon Tyne

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2019
Newcastle upon Tyne, a post-industrial city in the North East of England, has long been committed to hosting refugees. Although the city has suffered drastic cuts in government funding and faces high levels of deprivation, Newcastle declared itself a ...
Matthias Flug, Jason Hussein
doaj   +1 more source

La inconstitucionalidad parcial del Decreto 1182 sobre el derecho a solicitar refugio en el Ecuador: Análisis y efectos

open access: yesUSFQ Law Review, 2015
El Decreto Ejecutivo 1182, "Reglamento para aplicación en Ecuador del derecho de refugio", entró en vigencia el 30 de mayo de 2012, cambiando la normativa interna para el reconocimiento y ejercicio de la condición de refugiado en el Ecuador.
Daniela Ubidia Vásquez
doaj   +1 more source

Generalized Hertz model for bimodal nanomechanical mapping

open access: yesBeilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 2016
Bimodal atomic force microscopy uses a cantilever that is simultaneously driven at two of its eigenmodes (resonant modes). Parameters associated with both resonances can be measured and used to extract quantitative nanomechanical information about the ...
Aleksander Labuda   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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