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Anchoring emergency lightweight shelters
, 2019 Field tests have been conducted to address the question: ‘what are the major aspects to consider using anchors in the humanitarian sector?. Influence of soil, weather, type and combination of anchors, installation, orientation, inclination, depth, displacement and price have been measured.
Llorens Duran, Josep Ignasi de +1 more
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Addressing the Safety and Trauma Issues of Abused Women: A Cross-Canada Study of YWCA Shelters [PDF]
, 2015 Shelters for women are often seen as the major resource for intimate partner violence, yet few evaluations have been published. This study describes the needs, trauma symptoms and safety issues of 368 women as they enter and leave emergency shelters in ...
Tutty, Leslie M.
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Domesticated European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) have long been chosen as laboratory model organisms. Despite this, there has been no definitive study of the vertebral musculature of wild rabbits. Relevant descriptions of well‐studied veterinary model mammals (such as dogs) are generally applicable, but not appropriate for a species ...
Nuttakorn Taewcharoen +3 more
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Emergency shelter materials under a complex non-linear diophantine fuzzy decision support system
Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2023 The distribution of emergency shelter materials in emergency cases around the world is a hard task, the goal of this research is to offer a Complex Non-linear Diophantine Fuzzy (C-NLDF) decision-making model for earthquake shelter construction ...
Maria Shams +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract By skipping school for their cause, young climate strikers repeatedly demonstrated their priorities in 2019 and 2020. They regularly chose to sacrifice a day of their formal education in favour of collective action. This study asks what we can learn from the reflections of former youth strikers.
Loz J. Hennessy
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Crossroads Rhode Island: Proposed Social Enterprise Business Plan [PDF]
, 2014 Crossroads Rhode Island provides their clients with a continuum of care that includes basic emergency needs, shelter, housing, case management and vocational services for individuals and families.
Brookes, Joe +5 more
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson +9 more
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Cleaner Engineering and TechnologyIn China, the annual area affected by floods accounts for approximately two-thirds of the total land area, causing enormous losses, particularly in developed urban areas.
Bo Liu +5 more
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Making Time for Critique: Canadian ‘Right to Shelter’ Debates in a Chrono-Political Frame
The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2020 This article engages with Canadian ‘right to shelter’ discourse, with a focus on shared assumptions that do crucial work but are sometimes unstated.
Mark Zion
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Estimates of Different Clients Across the Whole Feeding America System [PDF]
, 2010 Chapter 4.8 provides an estimate of the total number of different clients served by all three types of Feeding America emergency food providers, taken together. Key Findings: Approximately 8% of pantry users said they had also used a kitchen or a shelter.
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