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Shear and Vorticity in a Combined Einstein-Cartan-Brans-Dicke Inflationary Lambda-Universe

open access: yes, 2008
A combined BCDE (Brans-Dicke and Einstein-Cartan) theory with lambda-term is developed through Raychaudhuri's equation, for inflationary scenario. It involves a variable cosmological constant, which decreases with time, jointly with energy density ...
A. Trautman   +18 more
core   +2 more sources

Resource rents, universal basic income, and poverty among Alaska’s Indigenous peoples [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program provides universal basic income (UBI) to all residents from investment earnings of a state sovereign wealth fund created from oil rents. This paper evaluates the effect of the PFD to mitigate poverty among
Berman, Matthew
core   +1 more source

Auditory Sensitivity in Autism: A Systematic Review of Mismatch Negativity and Mismatch Field Responses

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Auditory mismatch responses—mismatch negativity (MMN) and mismatch fields (MMF)—are well established electrophysiological markers of automatic auditory discrimination supported by short‐term sensory memory. These responses, typically elicited using passive oddball paradigms, are increasingly used to investigate sensory and language processing ...
Sara Cacciato‐Salcedo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Holomorphic Morse inequalities on manifolds with boundary [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Let X be a compact manifold with boundary and let L^k be a high power of a hermitian holomorphic line bundle over X. When X has no boundary, Demailly's holomorphic Morse inequalities give asymptotic bounds on the dimensions on the Dolbeault cohomology ...
Berman, Robert
core   +3 more sources

Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined teachers' perspectives on how children benefit from time in nature, how disadvantage shapes access and the role of schools in facilitating such access. Drawing on interviews conducted in 2022 with 25 UK primary school teachers who participated in Generation Wild, a nature connection programme for schools in economically ...
Nicola Parkin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing training needs in health research ethics: a case study from the University of Zambia School of Medicine

open access: yesGlobal Bioethics, 2020
In many settings, and perhaps especially in low-middle income countries, training institutions do not adequately prepare their students for the ethical challenges that confront them in professional life. We conducted a survey to assess the training needs
Gershom Chongwe   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Boris Berman, piano, November 19, 1984 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
This is the concert program of the Boris Berman, piano performance on Monday, November 19, 1984 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Sonata in B flat major, K.
School of Music, Boston University
core  

The Impact of Sustainability Orientation and Sustainability Challenges in SME Responses to Institutional Support

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT SMEs receive increasing institutional support to embed sustainability, yet they vary widely in their ability to translate such support into practice. This study addresses this gap by examining the internal cognitive and strategic mechanism (sustainability orientation) through which managers interpret institutional support and the contextual ...
Michael Zisuh Ngoasong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Harold J. Berman (1918 ‐ 2007) [PDF]

open access: yesAncilla Iuris, 2008
In the 20th century, a specifically normative integration of Western civilization collapsed – and in the 20th century all paradigms corresponding to this system lost their meaning.
Thomas Vesting
doaj   +1 more source

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