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The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility Internationally—History, Systems and the Future

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background In most countries, a criminal conviction requires evidence that the individual committed the act and that they had the mental capacity to understand what they were doing and that it was wrong. Youth, as an indicator of brain development, is one factor affecting criminal capacity.
Enys Delmage, Philip Anderson, Aileen Blower, Aaron Brown, Mary Davoren, Sofia Enell, Ross Gibson, Ann Karina Henriksen, Diana Johns, Riittakerttu Kaltiala, Maria João Leote de Carvalho, Thimo Martijn van der Pol, Eva Mulder, Sanne Oostermeijer, Mirian S. Orlando, Fleur Souverein, Pamela Taylor, Florence Thibaut, Heidi Hales   +18 more
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Colonialism and Mandates [PDF]

, 2012
Daily life in contemporary African countries must be understood as determined by their status as members of an interlocking network of postcolonies, striving to imagine themselves as related through Pan-Africanism but struggling first to realize ...
Hawley, John C.
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher, Darlene Himick, Leigh Ellen Walsh   +2 more
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Restricted Tweedie stochastic block models

Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract The stochastic block model (SBM) is a widely used framework for community detection in networks, where the network structure is typically represented by an adjacency matrix. However, conventional SBMs are not directly applicable to an adjacency matrix that consists of nonnegative zero‐inflated continuous edge weights.
Jie Jian, Mu Zhu, Peijun Sang
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Characterization of enteroviruses circulating among farm animals and children in Central African Republic

Emerging Microbes and Infections
To characterize enteroviruses (EVs) circulating in farm animals in Central African Republic (CAR), we screened 192 stools of animals under 12 months belonging to family farms located in or near Bangui.
Joël Doté, Marie-Line Joffret, Bertille Ndombari Beta, Mohand Ait-Ahmed, Virginie Banga-Mingo, Nick J. Knowles, Nolwenn Jouvenet, Marie-Noël MBaïkoua, Ionela Gouandjika-Vasilache, Maël Bessaud   +9 more
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GLAAS 2014 Findings: Special report for Africa [PDF]

, 2015
The UN-Water GLAAS Special Report for Africa, an initiative led by WHO in close collaboration with the African Ministers' Council on Water and the African Development Bank, provides data from 39 African countries to take stock on progress made during the

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Lower Dose‐Normalized Tacrolimus Exposure in CYP3A5*6 vs. *3 Loss‐of‐Function Allele Carriers: A Longitudinal Retrospective Real‐World Study in Kidney Transplant Recipients

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Pharmacogenomic research has historically focused on individuals of European ancestry, leading to the underrepresentation of genetic variants common in non‐European populations. This bias is exemplified by CYP3A5*6, a functionally consequential variant common in individuals of African ancestry (MAF: 11–19%) but virtually absent in Europeans (MAF: 0.15%)
Amar D. Levens, Dirk Jan A. R. Moes, Yanick Boer, Aiko P. J. de Vries, Dorottya K. de Vries, Danny van der Helm, Soufian Meziyerh, Dave L. Roelen, Stefan Böhringer, Teun Van Gelder, Jesse J. Swen   +10 more
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Practice Insight: Adapting Peacebuilding Dialogue Methodologies to City‐Resident Relations and Inclusive Policymaking in Calgary, Canada

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case study presents a project in which peacebuilding dialogue methodologies were adapted for use in municipal‐level dialogue sessions that took place in Calgary, Canada in late 2022 and early 2023. The authors found that using this approach built trust among cross‐sectoral participants and facilitators, resulted in greater diversity ...
Aleem Bharwani, Josh Nadeau
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Status of Hantavirus in the Central African Republic [PDF]

, 1988
Bouquety, J.C., Diemer, J.M., Georges, A.J., Gonzalez, Jean-Paul, Guerre, L., Lesbordes, J.L., Madelon, M.C., Mathiot, C.C.   +7 more
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Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart, Bayan Abubakr, Beltina Gjeloshi, Dieter Pfoser   +3 more
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