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Spatial Dimensions of Female Political Participation: Regional Perspective of Women’s Descriptive Representation in Czech Local Councils, 1994–2018

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
This paper focusses on the analysis of female political participation in the decision-making processes at the local level. We analyse women’s descriptive representation in Czechia on a very detailed spatial structure and an extended yearly time series ...
Pavel Maškarinec
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Radiation Therapy on Physical and Psychosocial Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Joint Report From the Children's Oncology Group AYA and Radiation Oncology Committees

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rates of cancer among adolescents and young adults (AYA), age 15–39 years, are increasing. Consequently, radiation oncologists are treating more AYAs who have diagnoses spanning both pediatric and adult practices. Compared to pediatric and older adult patients, AYAs face a unique set of challenges.
Hesham Elhalawani   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Functioning Within the First Years After Pediatric Brain Tumor Diagnosis and the Relationship With Family Psychosocial Risk

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survivors of pediatric brain tumors (PBTs) can experience long‐term social difficulties, impacting quality of life. Beyond medical and environmental factors, family psychosocial risk may play a role in social outcomes by shaping the caregiving environment and may provide intervention options.
Renske H. Houben   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

COMPUTER GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION, IN TREBLE ORTHOGONAL PROJECTION, OF A POINT

open access: yesJournal of Industrial Design and Engineering Graphics, 2017
In the stages of understanding and study, by students, of descriptive geometry, the treble orthogonal projection of a point, creates problems in the situations in that one or more descriptive coordinates are zero.
Andrei Slonovschi, Liviu Pruna
doaj   +4 more sources

Is there a sound democratic case for raising the membership of young people in political parties and trade unions through descriptive representation?

open access: yesIntergenerational Justice Review, 2018
Young people are seriously under-represented in both political parties and trade unions. I argue that a dependent conception of democracy interested in substantive equality, not merely formal equality, would support addressing this problem through ...
Thomas Tozer
doaj   +3 more sources

The Invisibility of Women's Organizations in Decision Making Process and Governance in Nigeria

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2019
The exciting development in the recent political era was the increase in women's political participation globally. Women are becoming more engaged in varieties of institutional decision making processes and Africa appears to be leading in women's ...
Comfort Yemisi Afolabi
doaj   +1 more source

The detection and representation of ambiguities of intension and description [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 24th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1986
Ambiguities related to intension and their consequent inference failures are a diverse group, both syntactically and semantically. One particular kind of ambiguity that has received little attention so far is whether it is the speaker or the third party to whom a description in an opaque third-party attitude report should be attributed.
Brenda Fawcett, Graeme Hirst
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Pediatric Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease Is Often Severe But Responsive to Siltuximab

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) is a potentially fatal immunologic disorder marked by widespread lymphadenopathy and inflammation. Siltuximab, an interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) inhibitor, is the only FDA‐approved treatment for adult patients with iMCD.
Bridget Austin   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Representation of sexism in bombshell film (2019)

open access: yes, 2023
Bombshell is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed by Jay Roach and written by Charles Randolph. This research analyzes the representation of sexism in the Bombshell film (2019).
Eli yupina siregar
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Finding Space in Politics: Perceptions of Representation Among Dutch Citizens With an Immigration Background

open access: yesPolitics and Governance
Representative democracy functions optimally when all citizens can participate, are heard, and feel represented. We know, however, that those interested and satisfied in politics rarely reflect a cross-section of the population.
Floris Vermeulen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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