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MusicSwarm: Biologically Inspired Intelligence for Music Composition

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Biologically inspired swarms of frozen foundation models self‐organize to compose complex music without fine‐tuning. By coordinating through stigmergic signals, decentralized agents dynamically evolve specialized roles and adapt to solve complex tasks.
Markus J. Buehler
wiley   +1 more source

Efficacy of manipulation for non-specific neck pain of recent onset: design of a randomised controlled trial

open access: yesBMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2007
Background Manipulation is a common treatment for non-specific neck pain. Neck manipulation, unlike gentler forms of manual therapy such as mobilisation, is associated with a small risk of serious neurovascular injury and can result in stroke or death ...
Herbert Rob D   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Blurring the Boundaries Citizen Action Across States and Societies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Taking a "citizen's perspective", looking upwards and outwards, these studies offer a unique insight into how citizens see and experience states and other institutions which affect their lives, as well as how they engage, mobilise and participate to make
Nicholas Benequista
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“Will you be there for me?” Social support from family and friends during cold case sexual assault prosecutions

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract If sexual assault survivors report the assault to the criminal legal system, they often need informal support from family and friends throughout the long and frequently retraumatizing process of investigation and prosecution. This study is part of a long‐term community‐based participatory action research project in a predominately Black ...
Rebecca Campbell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Une « communauté spatiale » au fondement de l’action politique ? Les mobilisations d’habitants face aux projets urbains à Marseille à l’époque moderne

open access: yesLes Cahiers de Framespa, 2016
In early modern cities, the capacity for political action was often determined by the possession of civic rights, and Marseilles is no exception to this rule. Citizenship was theoretically the only way to exercise political rights in the city.
Julien Puget
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing excellence in community-based research: Lessons from research with Syrian refugee newcomers

open access: yesGateways, 2020
In this article, we critically reflect on three Syrian refugee research projects that were conducted simultaneously in Ontario, Canada, in order to: (1) strengthen the community system of support for refugee newcomers; (2) address social isolation of ...
Rich Janzen, Joanna Ochocka
doaj   +1 more source

Asymmetry of values, indigenous forces, and incumbent success in counterinsurgency: evidence from Chechnya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article fills the gap in existing scholarship on asymmetric conflict, indigenous forces, and how socio-cultural codes shape the dynamics and outcomes of conflict transformation. Specifically, it identifies three key socio-cultural values commonplace
Aliyev, Huseyn, Souleimanov, Emil A.
core   +1 more source

B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Tenants' Movement: the domestication and resurgence of a social movement in English housing policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The launch of a National Tenants Voice for the English social housing sector rekindles a contentious debate among housing scholars over the role played by class and material interest in the mobilisation of collective action.
Bradley, Q
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Mobilising communities for Aedes aegypti control: the SEPA approach

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2017
Camino Verde (the Green Way) is an evidence-based community mobilisation tool for prevention of dengue and other mosquito-borne viral diseases. Its effectiveness was demonstrated in a cluster-randomised controlled trial conducted in 2010-2013 in Nicaragua and Mexico.
Ledogar, Robert   +11 more
openaire   +5 more sources

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