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A window of opportunities: Composing a relational space for living and telling sustainable stories to live by [PDF]

open access: yesNordic Journal of Art and Research, 2023
This article is based on experiences with the Dreamcatchers, a project involving people living with substance addiction, and their significant others, in which the participants composed and explored narratives through creative, collaborative processes ...
Mette Bøe Lyngstad, Bodil H. Blix
doaj   +7 more sources

On Dreamcatchers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this essay, a unique perspective of dreamcatchers is offered, including their history and their applicability to serve as a means of describing contemporary happenings in Native ...
Hagen, Brad
core   +3 more sources

Impact of community-based interventions on condom use in the Tłįcho region of Northwest Territories, Canada. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Health Serv Res, 2011
Background Since 2005, the Tłįchǫ Community Services Agency (TCSA) in Canada's Northwest Territories (NT) has addressed rising rates of sexually transmitted infections (STI).
Edwards KE   +4 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Destroy All Humans: The Dematerialisation of the Designer in an Age of Automation and its Impact on Graphic Design—A Literature Review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 367-383, August 2023., 2023
Abstract Digital automation is on the rise in a diverse range of industries. The technologies employed here often make use of artificial intelligence (AI) and its common form, machine learning (ML) to augment or replace the work completed by human agents. The recent emergence of a variety of design automation platforms inspired the authors to undertake
Benjamin Matthews   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence of increased mussel abundance related to the Pacific marine heatwave and sea star wasting

open access: yesMarine Ecology, Volume 43, Issue 4, August 2022., 2022
Abstract Mussels occupy a key middle trophic position in nearshore food webs linking primary producers to predators. Climate‐related environmental changes may synergistically combine with changes in predator abundance to affect intertidal ecosystems. We examined the influence of two major events on mussel (Mytilus trossulus) abundance in the northern ...
Sarah B. Traiger   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decommissioned places: Ruins, endurance and care at the end of the first nuclear age

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 33-49, March 2020., 2020
This paper argues for a geography of deindustrialising places as spaces of inhabitation and endurance, rather than one based on narratives of progress and decline or informed by the figure of the ruin. Ruins have long been a concern for geographers, and the material remains of modernity's grand schemes feed easily into ways of seeing and knowing ...
Leila Dawney
wiley   +1 more source

Mukurtu Mobile: Empowering Knowledge Circulation Across Cultures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This project will implement Mukurtu Mobile (mukurtumobile.org), an innovative iPhone application that empowers indigenous communities to collect, share and preserve their cultural and environmental resources.
Kimberly A. Christen   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Critical Survival Lessons for Small Businesses : What Kahnawake Based Entrepreneurs Have Learned

open access: yesJournal of Aboriginal Economic Development, 2002
The basis for this article is the experience of a number of entrepreneurs at Kahnawake, Quebec. They originally reported what they did in a series of videotaped interviews conducted by Ron Abraira and initiated by Tom O’Connell.
Robert J. Oppenheimer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Co-creating a catalyst for sustainable development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for action by all countries to ensure that no one is left behind. It requires partnerships between governments, the private sector, and civil societies across countries, continents, and ...
Gjærum, Rikke Gürgens   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Large‐Scale Coarse‐to‐Fine Object Retrieval Ontology and Deep Local Multitask Learning

open access: yesComputational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019
Object retrieval plays an increasingly important role in video surveillance, digital marketing, e‐commerce, etc. It is facing challenges such as large‐scale datasets, imbalanced data, viewpoint, cluster background, and fine‐grained details (attributes). This paper has proposed a model to integrate object ontology, a local multitask deep neural network (
Ngoc Q. Ly   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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