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American National Red Cross Hurricane Disaster Action

open access: yes, 1971
28 pages; available for download at the link below.The American National Red Cross under its congressional charter has the responsibility "to continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same in ...
American National Red Cross
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Scoping response system management of alcohol’s harm to others in lower middle income countries

open access: yesNordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2016
AIMS - As part of the WHO Harm from others’ drinking project, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Chile, Nigeria and Vietnam undertook scoping studies to examine: which service agencies in low and middle income countries responded to people affected by others ...
Laslett Anne-Marie   +9 more
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Variations in attitudinal gender preferences for children across 50 less-developed countries

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2010
While a number of studies have examined gender preferences for children by studying behavioral measures, such as skewed sex ratios, sex imbalance in infant mortality, and sibling size/order; attitudinal measures have been analyzed less systematically ...
Kana Fuse
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Cross-National Comparative Study on Legal Education and Admission to Practice Between China, India and Pakistan

open access: yesJournal of Legal Studies, 2018
Legal profession has experienced substantial changes owing to economic needs and evolution of legal industry and market. This has multiplied the need of new breed of competent and well versed lawyers in the global legal profession.
ShuHong Yu   +3 more
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Do co-residence and intentions make a difference? Relationship satisfaction in married, cohabiting, and living apart together couples in four countries

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2014
Background: A large body of research has compared relationship satisfaction and quality in cohabiting versus married relationships. Despite increased recognition of couples in living apart together (LAT) relationships, very little research has examined ...
Tsui-o Tai   +2 more
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Alkalinity of diverse water samples can be altered by mercury preservation and borosilicate vial storage

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
We compared the effects of preservation and storage methods on total alkalinity (AT) of seawater, estuarine water, freshwater, and groundwater samples stored for 0–6 months.
Benjamin Mos   +4 more
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Feminization in Names

open access: yesNames
The evolution of gendered naming has been widely examined, yet most studies focus on single languages or limited cultural contexts. This study broadens that scope by analyzing the phonological evolution of gendered names across six countries—Korea ...
U-ri Go, Jong-mi Kim
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The educational gradient of childlessness and cohort parity progression in 14 low fertility countries

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2014
Background: Although the association between fertility and education is central to several theories of fertility behaviour and is frequently explored in empirical work, educational differentials in childlessness and cohort parity progression have been ...
Jonas Wood, Karel Neels, Tine Kil
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Sleep quality, sleep quantity, and sleep timing: contrasts in Austrian and U.S. college students

open access: yesFrontiers in Sleep
ObjectiveThe current study compared self-reported sleep in undergraduate students in Austria and the United States.MethodsThe Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index responses from 292 Austrian university students (237 females) and 313 U.S.
June J. Pilcher   +2 more
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Intimate Partner Violence and Social Pressure among Gay Men in Six Countries

open access: yesWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2012
Introduction: Recent research suggests that men who have sex with men (MSM) experience intimate partner violence (IPV) at significantly higher rates than heterosexual men.
Catherine Finneran   +4 more
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