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Professional Agency in the Ecology of Wrongdoing

open access: yes, 2018
This study offers an account of individual agency within a constructivist view of professional wrongdoing. The main contribution is a model in which the neglected role of individual professionals is foregrounded, offering the basis for testable propositions about future misconduct.
Harrington, Brooke   +1 more
openaire   +4 more sources

From Parasite to Symbiont: Cyborg Identity, Ecological Agency and Posthuman Freedom in Suarez’s Daemon and Freedom

open access: yesHumanities
This article examines Daniel Suarez’s techno-thrillers Daemon (2006) and Freedom™ (2010) as works of speculative fiction that critically engage with themes of posthuman identity, algorithmic governance, and ecological agency.
Ozden Dere
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of statistical approaches to predicting norovirus laboratory reports before and during COVID-19: insights to inform public health surveillance

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Social distancing interrupted transmission patterns of contact-driven infectious agents such as norovirus during the Covid-19 pandemic. Since routine surveillance of norovirus was additionally disrupted during the pandemic, traditional naïve forecasts ...
Nikola Ondrikova   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

An exploration into the links between coaching practices, coaching cultures, and the emergence of ecological agency in schools

open access: yesInternational Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring
This study explores the relationship between coaching practices, coaching cultures, and ecological agency in schools. Using a phenomenological approach, it examines the experiences of nineteen teachers to understand how coaching influences teacher agency.
Jasmine Miller, Joe Cowley
doaj   +1 more source

Distribution of a Foliage Disease Fungus Within Canopies of Mature Douglas-Fir in Western Oregon

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
Nothophaeocryptopus gaeumannii is a common native, endophytic fungus of Douglas-fir foliage, which causes Swiss needle cast, an important foliage disease that is considered a threat to Douglas-fir plantations in Oregon.
Yung-Hsiang Lan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Operationalizing agency in livelihoods research: smallholder farming livelihoods in southwest Ethiopia

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2022
Livelihoods are activities and practices in which social and environmental factors interlink, and they play a key role in achieving human well-being and environmental conservation.
Aisa O. Manlosa
doaj   +1 more source

The extent to which soil hydraulics can explain ecohydrological separation

open access: yesNature Communications, 2022
Soil physics simulations show water isotope ratios can differ among drainage, mobile and immobile storages due to transport processes alone, but effects were smaller than field data implying unrepresented processes underly ecohydrologic separation.
Catherine E. Finkenbiner   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2013
We reviewed the literature on leadership in linked social-ecological systems and combined it with the literature on institutional entrepreneurship in complex adaptive systems to develop a new theory of transformative agency in linked social-ecological ...
Frances R. Westley   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A cultural–ecological perspective on agency and offending behaviour

open access: yesPsychiatry, Psychology and Law, 2019
This article aims to outline briefly the important role of culture in the development of the human mind and behaviour, and therefore argues that cultural information is a key part of forensic explanation. We suggest that differing cultural experiences, such as marginalisation, contribute to the differential representation of individuals and groups in ...
Annalisa Strauss-Hughes   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Genomic changes of Lassa virus associated with mammalian host adaptation

open access: yesBMC Genomics
Background Lassa virus (LASV) causes a severe haemorrhagic fever in humans, with estimates of 100,000 to 300,000 infections annually in endemic regions and accounting for around 5000 deaths. The natural reservoir is the Mastomys rat, but through zoonotic
Linda Easterbrook   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

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