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The Sanctuaries for Witch-hunt Victims in Northern Ghana

Modern Africa, 2018
Witch-hunts in Ghana’s Northern Region occur mainly among neighbours and members of the extended family. Triggers for accusations are disease, death and accidents. With many exceptions, the accused are postmenopausal women.
Felix Riedel
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Is bigger better? Assessment of self-reported and researcher-collected data on maternal health care quality among high-case-load facilities in Uttar Pradesh: a mixed-methods study

The Lancet Global Health, 2018
Background: India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, has the country's second highest maternal mortality ratios, at 285 compared with the national maternal mortality ratio of 167.
Beth Phillips, Fnu Kajal, Dominic Montagu, Aarti Kumar, Vishwajeet Kumar   +4 more
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Empowerment, waste and new consumption communities

, 2006
Purpose – This paper aims to explore the diverse and complementary resistance and waste-reduction practices adopted by UK-based New Consumption Communities, and whether such behaviours empower them to achieve their environmental and social goals. Design/
Bekin, C, Szmigin, I, Marylyn Carrigan, Bekin, C; id_orcid, Szmigin, Isabelle, Bekin, Caroline, Carrigan, Marylyn, Isabelle Szmigin, Carrigan, M, Caroline Bekin, Moraes, Caroline   +10 more
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Gender ethnicity and empowerment in later life [PDF]

, 2002
Studies of later life are increasingly emphasising its positive aspects as a time which is not necessarily linked to decline and dependency. Gender is also accepted as an important variable in the experience of advancing years.
Wray, S., Afshar, Haleh, Myfanwy Franks, Sharon Wray, Franks, Myfanwy, Wray, Sharon, Franks, M., Haleh Afshar, Maynard, M., Mary Maynard, Afshar, H.   +10 more
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Empowerment and performance in local government : the impact of empowerment strategies on service improvement

This study examines the impact an empowerment strategy may have when applied to public sector employees delivering Environmental Services. The study employs a case study method as its central research strategy with ten sample local authorities chosen as ...
Tickner, Leslie
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Harnessing Large Language Models for Scalable and Effective Formative Assessment in Higher Education: A Review

Trends in Higher Education
Formative assessment is an integral component of higher education, fostering student learning through feedback, reflection, and iterative improvement.
Charith Narreddy, Steve Joordens, Sapolnach Prompiengchai   +2 more
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Empowerment

World Neurosurgery, 2022
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Fiscal determinants of empowerment [PDF]

Empowerment of local governments and citizens is a primary object of decentralization. Using the analytic lens of empowerment, the author explores the nature of decentralized governance and how this type of structure is likely to be more or less ...
Raich, Uri
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The Perception of Emerging Cattle Farmers on Extension and Advisory Services in Improving the Welfare of Cattle in Sinthumule-Kutama Areas of Makhado Municipality, Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa

AgriHealth
Livestock farmers in the Limpopo Province benefitted from the land reform projects. This led to an increase in the number of emerging cattle farmers who desired to move from small-scale to commercial cattle farming. These emerging cattle farmers had high
Muano Thornado, Elliot Mahlengule Zwane, Ernet Modibe Letsoalo   +2 more
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Affective commitment and citizenship behaviour: The role of LMX and personality and the mediating effects of empowerment

, 2008
The purpose of this research was to identify motivational factors that would predict organisational commitment and citizenship behaviour. One important motivational factor is empowerment, which is an intrinsic motivator (Spreitzer, 1995, p. 121 table 5 ),
Rodriguez-Llewell, Yanahina
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