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The Role of Fire Safety in Advancing United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: A Review

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire safety is an essential yet often overlooked component of sustainable development. As urbanization accelerates and climate‐related hazards intensify, integrating fire risk reduction into sustainability frameworks is becoming increasingly critical. This review employs a structured narrative methodology, synthesizing peer‐reviewed literature
Mohammad R. Hassan
wiley   +1 more source

Central Bank Digital Currencies, Financial Inclusion, and Privacy: A Normative Perspective

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are a digital form of a nation's money, issued by its central bank. As opposed to other forms of digital money, such as electronic bank balances or cryptocurrencies, they are centrally managed legal tender.
Andrew Allison, Alexander William Salter
wiley   +1 more source

A South African Language Teacher Educator's Reflective Journey Through Sociocultural Theory and Asset‐Based Mediation

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This reflective article chronicles a South African English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) university teacher educator's journey from professional disillusionment toward a more intentional, transformative praxis. The catalyst for this journey was the recurring observation of novice teachers abandoning dialogic, asset‐based pedagogies learned ...
Nhlanhla Mpofu
wiley   +1 more source

Crafting the Future: Developing Graduate Programs Aligned With Demographic Trends

open access: yesNew Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to changing student demographics and increasing budget constraints, many colleges and universities are reevaluating their graduate education strategies. While some institutions are striving to save costs via program cuts and layoffs, others are refocusing attention on student recruitment, specifically targeting working adults as a ...
Jennifer A. Owens   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wildlife forensic science in Hong Kong

open access: yes, 2020
In the past decade, Hong Kong has seen an increase in volume and diversity of endangered wildlife imported through its borders. Recent amendments to legislation concerning wildlife crimes in Hong Kong allow for increased sentencing and prosecution of the
Dingle, C   +7 more
core   +1 more source

A Multi‐Analytical Campaign on Reused Medieval Musical Parchment From the Archivio di Stato di Siena (Italy)

open access: yesX-Ray Spectrometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this study, a non‐invasive, multi‐analytical approach combining hypercolorimetric multispectral imaging (HMI), stereomicroscopy, X‐ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy, principal component analysis (PCA) and X‐ray radiography (RX) is used to investigate three reused musical parchment fragments dating from the late 14th or early 15th century ...
Mario Gentile   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Coordinated U.S. Biobank Alliance for the Zoological and Conservation Community

open access: yesZoo Biology, EarlyView.
Coordinated biobanking across institutions (squares) makes biobank access more efficient and robust for research and conservation (human figure). ABSTRACT With dramatic advancements in biological data generation, genetic rescue and reproductive technologies, and inter‐institutional coordination of care across entire animal populations, zoos, aquariums,
Rachel A. Johnston   +35 more
wiley   +1 more source

Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

The Timely Rise of a Teenage Reformer: Youth Revolt, Feminism and the Struggle for a ‘New Sexual Morality’ at the Dawn of the Spanish Second Republic

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
wiley   +1 more source

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