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Testimony Submitted to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary: The Uniting American Families Act, Addressing Inequality in Federal Immigration Law [PDF]

, 2009
A large body of research has shown that same-sex "unmarried partners" identified in the U.S. Census are primarily composed of lesbian and gay couples.
Gary J. Gates
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Cutting Through the Green: A Case for Grassland Archaeology Using UAV Multispectral Data

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Advances in low‐altitude remote sensing are needed to improve the effectiveness of archaeological prospection in the Netherlands. The geomorphological situation and land use history make applying various remote sensing and geophysical technologies particularly challenging.
Roeland Emaus
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From disorientation to preparedness: Information practices as scaffolding in acute crises

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study examines how adults in Israel enacted information practices during an acute national crisis. Using the information transitions framework, we investigate how concrete practices emerge and evolve across three stages: understanding, negotiating, and resolving. Semi‐structured Zoom interviews with 18 adults were analyzed via
Lilach Alon, Tali Malinoff, Inbar Levkovich   +2 more
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Contrasting the Views and Actions of Data Collectors and Data Consumers in a Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Project: Implications for Project Design and Management

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2017
Data collection or generation is the primary way that the majority of volunteers advance the scientific goals of citizen science projects, but other activities such as data consumption also may influence learning, civic, and conservation outcomes ...
Caren B. Cooper, Lincoln R. Larson, Kathleen Krafte Holland, Rebecca A. Gibson, David J. Farnham, Diana Y. Hsueh, Patricia J. Culligan, Wade R. McGillis   +7 more
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Citizen Journalist to Activist: the Language Behind Black Lives Matter [PDF]

, 2016
This study explores the discourse surrounding an event in the social movement, Black Lives Matter, to gain insights into how digital literacy practices influence and mediate participation in the 21st century civil rights movement for a new generation of ...
Colon, Valeriana
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VAN LCOS microdisplays: a decade of technological evolution [PDF]

, 2011
—Microdisplays of the liquid crystals on silicon (LCOS) type have gone through a rapid evolution during the last decade. We present an overview of how vertically aligned nematic (VAN) LCOS have evolved from an attractive, but notoriously difficult and ...
Cuypers, Dieter, De Smet, Herbert, Van Calster, André   +2 more
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Making it explicit – Sustained shared thinking dialogue as a way to explore children's perspectives on quality in German early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract To negotiate quality in early childhood education and care, we must ask from different perspectives what constitutes a good centre for children. The children themselves have only recently been identified as a resource to contribute to that discussion.
Katrin Macha, Frauke Hildebrandt, Caroline Wronski, Jan Lonnemann, Mathias Urban   +4 more
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Manifestation and sociodemographic microdata of Brazil’s Unified Health System Ombudsman

BMC Research Notes
Objectives This article presents the process of extraction and treatment of two datasets from the General Ombudsman of the Brazilian Unified Health System (OUVSUS).
Raphael de Freitas Saldanha, Vinicius Kreischer, Raquel Gritz, Matheus Miloski, Carmen Lúcia Corrêa Bonifácio, Carlos Leonardo Souza Cardoso, Ariane Camilo Pinheiro Alves, Domício Aurélio de Sá, Garibaldi Dantas Gurgel Junior, Rafael da Silveira Moreira, Michelle Vieira Fernandez, Jefferson da Costa Lima, Marcel Pedroso   +12 more
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Who is willing to deliberate, and how? Dissatisfied democrats, stealth democrats and populists in the UK: SEI Working Paper 131 [PDF]

, 2012
This article draws on a new survey of British citizens to test the hypothesis that there are two quite distinctive types of attitude prevalent among those who are ‘disaffected’ with politics, the ‘dissatisfied democratic’ and ‘stealth democratic ...
Webb, Paul
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
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