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Developing a contextually relevant ECD milestone guide for South African practitioners

South African Journal of Childhood Education
Background: Two hundred and fifty million children under five in low- and middle-income countries are at risk of not achieving their developmental potential.
Keren Charge, Linette du Toit, Danielle du Plessis, Tabea Köstlin, Julia Wagner, Renata Eccles, Jeannie van der Linde, Maria du Toit   +7 more
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A Risk-Based Approach to Shelter Resilience following Flood and Typhoon Damage in Rural Philippines

Geosciences, 2018
The Philippines is exposed to numerous typhoons every year, each of which poses a potential threat to livelihoods, shelter, and in some cases life. Flooding caused by such events leads to extensive damage to land and buildings, and the impact on rural ...
Victoria Stephenson, Andrew Finlayson, Luisa Miranda Morel   +2 more
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Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners: San Diego, California, September 12-15, 1996

, 1996
Description of the the Annual Conference of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (29th : 1996), officers, district news, events, awards, and other ...
American Association of Bovine Practitioners,
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Automating Chemical Reasoning in High‐Throughput Phase Identification With a Probabilistic, LLM‐Guided Framework

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Autonomous laboratories can now synthesize materials faster than experts can interpret the resulting diffraction data. A probabilistic framework combines refinement‐fit metrics with large language model‐derived chemical reasoning to rank competing phase interpretations and flag those unsuitable for autonomous use.
Olympia Dartsi, Lauren N. Walters, Amalie E. Trewartha, Steven B. Torrisi, Amanda Volk, Liam Joyce, Gerbrand Ceder, Anubhav Jain   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

An international perspective on the use of community engagement by conservation practitioners to support the management of inhabited islands

Conservation Science and Practice
Successful island conservation is critical to achieving global biodiversity targets, but significant gaps remain in our understanding of how to effectively engage island communities in conservation efforts. Social and political factors often play a major
Alexandra H. Nance, Rohan H. Clarke, Carly N. Cook   +2 more
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AABP Conference (2007): Minutes of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners: Business Luncheon, 22 September 2007, Pan Pacific Convention Center, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

, 2008
Description of the 2007 American Association of Bovine Practitioners ...
Bovine Practitioners, American Association of
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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using practical wisdom to facilitate ethical decision-making: a major empirical study of phronesis in the decision narratives of doctors

BMC Medical Ethics, 2021
Background Medical ethics has recently seen a drive away from multiple prescriptive approaches, where physicians are inundated with guidelines and principles, towards alternative, less deontological perspectives.
Mervyn Conroy, Aisha Y. Malik, Catherine Hale, Catherine Weir, Alan Brockie, Chris Turner   +5 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Fit for change’: A preliminary exploration of the relationship between academic literacy practitioners and disciplinary specialists as a complex system

Perspectives in Education, 2013
At tertiary institutions in South Africa and internationally, academic literacy practitioners and disciplinary specialists have traditionally functioned as separate communities of practice.
Karin Cattell
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