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Scenes From a Sociolegal Career: An Informal Memoir
ABSTRACT This memoir describes the 40‐year unfolding, project by project, of my sociolegal field research on legal and regulatory processes. It provides brief accounts of my interactions and interviews with regulatory officials and with businesspeople responsible for regulatory compliance.
Robert A. Kagan
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Abstract The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) shares a common terrestrial ancestor with whales (Cetacea) and has independently evolved similar physiological adaptations to their aquatic lifestyle. Although several studies have explored the electrical signalling in whale hearts, the understanding of the conduction system and electrical ...
Morten B. Thomsen+12 more
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Boosting Public Confidence in U.S. Agency Policymaking
ABSTRACT Scholars have documented a steep decline in Americans' trust in the bureaucracy. This trend is problematic because it threatens the legitimacy of democratic policymaking by public sector agencies. We hypothesize that the participation of the bureaucracy's elected political principals in agency policy decision‐making increases public confidence
Natalie L. Smith, Susan Webb Yackee
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ABSTRACT This exploratory study examines 298 homicides of US transgender and gender non‐conforming victims from 1st January 2013–1st January 2023. Using content analysis and triangulation of data from open‐source news reports along with official data sources (i.e., government reports, police reports, post‐mortem reports, etc.) victimology and forensic ...
Heather Panter, Amanda Farrell
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Abstract There has been increasing recognition of the adverse effects of outdoor recreation on the behavioural ecology, breeding success and ultimate abandonment of territories in several raptor species, such as the Bonelli's Eagle (Aquila fasciata). We assessed the effects of human activities on the behaviour and breeding success of Bonelli's eagles ...
José E. Martínez+5 more
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Abstract The management of protected areas is often portrayed as an enterprise guided by objective knowledge and technical criteria, a claim that situates conservation practitioners in positions of power relative to other actors in these spaces. Challenging these claims of objectivity by exploring conservation practitioners' subjective views is vital ...
Eduardo Salazar Moreira
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ABSTRACT A protest, also called a demonstration, is a way for people to show their disagreement with an action or idea, mainly when they are unable to directly prevent them. Protests can speed up the spread of multidrug‐resistant organisms (MDROs), causing a major public health problem.
Shuaibu Suleiman Adeiza
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A demonstrative wooden compartment containing a wooden lattice structure that has then been burnt to short‐duration post‐flashover. The lattice has been removed, and the floor can be seen, showing extensive damage at the point of ventilation (from a small door), as well as extensive damage at the area of origin.
Amy Aldrick, Mackenzie de la Hunty
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The decline of deer hunting: Demographic analysis and future projections of Wisconsin deer hunters
We studied changes in deer hunting participation rates and used age‐period‐cohort models to create projections of the future deer hunter population in Wisconsin, USA. We found that participation rates have declined consistently and significantly across most population segments, and the number of deer hunters will continue to decline for the foreseeable
Adam S. Mohr+4 more
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