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‘If I Can, We Can’

open access: yesThe Thinker, 2023
Myrtle Witbooi, a pioneering leader of the domestic worker movement, died on January 16 in Cape Town at age 75. Under South Africa’s apartheid rule, she began to organise women in the garage of her employer and went on to become president of the first ...
Jennifer N. Fish
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Practical aspects of mobilising property tax: experience in Sierra Leone and Malawi

open access: yesCommonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2015
Much literature has been written about the appeal of property tax as a stable source of revenue for subnational governments in developing countries. Building on this significant background of literature is the author’s practical experience working in ...
Paul Fish
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Effective fisheries management instrumental in improving fish stock status

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Significance This article compiles estimates of the status of fish stocks from all available scientific assessments, comprising roughly half of the world’s fish catch, and shows that, on average, fish stocks are increasing where they are assessed.
R. Hilborn   +23 more
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‘Behind This Wall’ – Experiences of Seclusion on Locked Wards for Women

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2018
Aim: To more fully understand the experiences of seclusion in a learning disability service for women. Background: This paper reports on one of the analytical themes, seclusion, from an ethnographic study exploring the lives of learning disabled women on
Rebecca Fish
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An evidence gap map on Made in Africa Evaluation approaches: Exploration of the achievements

open access: yesAfrican Evaluation Journal, 2022
Background: The Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) agenda is an effort at decolonising and indigenising evaluation practice in Africa. This involves developing new evaluation practices, theories, approaches and methodologies originating from African ...
Tebogo E. Fish
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Evaluating the influence of environmental variables on the length-weight relationship and prediction modelling in flathead grey mullet, Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2023
Fish stocks that are grown under diverse environmental conditions have different biometric relationships and growth patterns. The biometric length-weight relationship (LWR) is an essential fishery assessment tool, as fish growth is continuous and depends
Rejani Chandran   +6 more
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Notes from Folger

open access: yesPoznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2009
The text written by Stanley Fish, which is an excerpt from his book Professional Correctness. Literary Studies and Political Change (Oxford 1995), is an attempt at a presentation and a discussion of the main conditioning factors and the aporia of ...
Stanley Fish
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Fish consumption, fish oil, omega-3 fatty acids, and cardiovascular disease.

open access: yesArteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, 2002
fatty acids affect cardiac function (including antiarrhythmic effects), hemodynamics (cardiac mechanics), and arterial endothelial function have helped clarify potential mechanisms of action.
P. Kris-Etherton, W. Harris, L. Appel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Benefit of Optimal Dietary Lipid Level for Black Seabream Acanthopagrus schlegelii Juveniles under Low-Salinity Environment

open access: yesAquaculture Nutrition, 2022
The present study was aimed at evaluating the regulatory effects of dietary lipid levels on growth performance, osmoregulation, fatty acid composition, lipid metabolism, and physiological response in Acanthopagrus schlegelii under low salinity (5 psu ...
Min Jin   +7 more
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Pl\"unnecke inequalities for measure graphs with applications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We generalize Petridis's new proof of Pl\"unnecke's graph inequality to graphs whose vertex set is a measure space. Consequently, this gives new Pl\"unnecke inequalities for measure preserving actions which enable us to deduce, via a Furstenberg ...
Bulinski, Kamil, Fish, Alexander
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