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From captivity to captivity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In five books, "We Survived: Yugoslav Jews on the Holocaust" (three of them translated into English), the testimonies of a small number of surviving members of the Jewish community about World War II were collected.
Navonović, Nisim
core   +4 more sources

What doesn’t kill you makes you feel older: lifespan adversity and its association with subjective age among former prisoners of war

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2019
Background: Subjective age (SA) is an indicator of aging that has been empirically associated with health impediments and hindered longevity. Studies show that adverse life events may result in relatively older SA, but have not addressed the differential
Rahel Bachem   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Animal Captivity: Justifications for Animal Captivity in the Context of Domestication

open access: yes, 2016
The central question of this chapter is whether keeping animals in captivity is morally justified. Captivity could be considered inherently wrong when animals are perceived to have an interest in liberty. I argue that this is the case to a certain extent,
Bernice Bovenkerk, Bovenkerk, B.
core   +1 more source

Incarceration Memoirs and the Captivity Genre [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The captivity genre has a rich history in fiction and memoir. In this work, I argue that the expansive parameters of the captivity genre should include an additional subset of texts: incarceration memoirs.
Carafano IV, Vincent James
core   +1 more source

Book Review: Narrative as Performance: American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes, and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin

open access: yesNANO, 2019
This book review, by Visola Wurzer, explores American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes, and Trial of Patty Hearst (2016) a book by Jeffrey Toobin.
Visola Wurzer
doaj  

Variation in the walking time to bus stop by the degree of transit captivity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Measures of transit accessibility are important in evaluating transit services, planning for future services and investment on land use development. Existing tools measure transit accessibility using averaged walking distance or walking time to public ...
Chia, Jason, Lee, Brian
core  

The Debate on Marine Mammals in Captivity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Are marine mammal species better off today because of captivity? Is captivity ethical and should it be continued? As this debate grows stronger, both of these sides of the argument offer substantial evidence in their favor.
Scribner, Lorna C.
core   +1 more source

Captivity, consciousness, and culture The role of the Captivity Narrative in American National Identity

open access: yes, 2011
This thesis studies the captivity narrative throughout American history, focusing on early Puritan captivity narratives and later twentieth century narratives that developed during the Korean War, Vietnam, and the Iranian Hostage Crisis.
Brown, Jillian
core   +1 more source

Effects of capture and captivity on plasma corticosterone and metabolite levels in breeding Eurasian Tree Sparrows

open access: yesAvian Research, 2019
Background Bringing free-living animals into captivity subjects them to the stress of both capture and captivity, leading to the alteration of normal physiological processes and behaviors through activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis.
Mo Li   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Antimicrobial Resistance and Virulence Potential of Bacterial Species from Captive Birds of Prey—Consequences of Falconry for Public Health

open access: yesAnimals
Falconry has been practiced for thousands of years and is nowadays frequently employed in activities such as pest control, hunting, falcon racing, and environmental education.
Rita Magalhães   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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