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Analysis of Ideology in Public Policies (Case Study: Ministry of Science, Research and Technolog) [PDF]
پژوهشهای مدیریت عمومیThere are always ideas or pseudo-sciences with high certainty in the minds of policymakers, which win due to their certainty, value-orientedness and high speed in mobilizing public opinion to achieve action in the competition with objective evidence and ...
Behrouz Rezaei Manesh +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Risk management has evolved to analyze risks in a systemic way, integrating local knowledge with the abstract concept of resilience, which is now an imperative for vulnerable and exposed communities. However, existing decision‐support tools are mainly focused on technical‐functional aspects and, although based on rigorous and scientific ...
Pascal Emanuel Egli +10 more
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Hydrologic versus geomorphic drivers of trends in flood hazard [PDF]
, 2015 This work was partially supported by a NERC studentship to LJSFlooding is a major hazard to lives and infrastructure, but trends in flood hazard are poorly understood.
Michael Bliss Singer +16 more
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Meeting the Basic Needs of International Students
New Directions for Student Services, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following the COVID‐19 pandemic, many International Student Services offices are exploring and expanding the ways in which they support the basic needs of students, from food, housing, transportation, childcare, health care to mental health and wellbeing to financial assistance.
Judith Pennywell +2 more
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Integrated washland management for flood defence and biodiversity [PDF]
, 2004 In the context of growing interest in finding sustainable solutions to flood management in England and Wales, this study set out to determine the extent to which benefits to flood management and biodiversity can be achieved through an integrated ...
Hess, Tim M. +6 more
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev +2 more
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Applications of statistics in flood frequency analysis [PDF]
, 2012 Estimation of the probability of occurrence of future flood events at one or more locations across a river system is frequently required for the design of bridges, culverts, spillways, dams and other engineering works.
Ahmad, Muhammad Idrees
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Poetic cosmogony in poems of Russian poets of the 18th – early 19th century
SHS Web of Conferences, 2018 The research is significant due to the undiminishing interest shown by philosophers, philologists and culture experts to an eternal question of all times – the creation of the world by God. This aspect demands special consideration.
Petrov Alexej +2 more
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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.This study investigates the breeding success of the critically endangered White‐rumped Vulture in Khaireni Community Forest, and examines local knowledge and perceptions toward its conservation. We found that 71% of active nests were successful, with breeding success significantly influenced by the proximity to carcass deposition sites.
Siddhartha Regmi +4 more
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
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