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Agricultural climate change mitigation: carbon calculators as a guide for decision making

open access: yesInternational Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2017
The dairy industry is receiving considerable attention in relation to both its significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and its potential for reducing those emissions, contributing towards meeting national targets and driving the industry towards ...
Andrew Green   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a novel risk score to predict mortality in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2020
Patients hospitalised with COVID-19 have a high mortality. Identification of patients at increased risk of adverse outcome would be important, to allow closer observation and earlier medical intervention for those at risk, and to objectively guide ...
Ying X. Gue   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Prevalence, Knowledge and Use of Cognitive Enhancers among University Students in the United Arab Emirates: A quantitative study

open access: yesEmerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health
Introduction: The use of prescription stimulants for cognitive enhancement by healthy university students, identified as the largest cohort of cognitive enhancer (CE) users, is of growing interest.
S. Sharif   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Co‐Delivering a Mentalization‐Based Parenting Programme: A Qualitative Evaluation of the Experiences of Children's Social Workers and Foster Carers

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Parenting programmes have traditionally been facilitated by mental health or social care professionals such as social workers or clinical psychologists. However, the Reflective Fostering Programme—a mentalization‐based, psychoeducational group intervention—was uniquely designed to be co‐facilitated by a foster carer and a social worker.
Adaku Anyiam‐Osigwe   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extreme weather and economic crisis in the 1430s in England, and the implications for tenurial change

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1430s were characterized by extreme weather conditions, food and fodder shortages, and high mortalities among animals and humans, although the severity of events and their consequences in England have received limited attention. The economic downturn and the depressed customary land market in this decade marked the beginning of the Great ...
Mark Bailey
wiley   +1 more source

Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article uses the township‐level data on welfare expenditure and provision gathered by parish officers in England and Wales at three points between 1776 and 1815 to illuminate regional and local differences during the period. These data have been linked to geographic information system (GIS) mapping systems, facilitating the mapping of ...
John Broad
wiley   +1 more source

The big impact of small change: Fresh estimates of English wheat market integration, 1693–1893

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Using existing and new price data sets, we provide the first estimates of market integration across England over the entire 200 years of the industrial revolution. We document a significant, though not huge, integration improvement for markets furthest from London. Full integration was achieved by the 1830s. Our price data sets vary in quality
Liam Brunt, Edmund Cannon
wiley   +1 more source

Can Coercive Vertical Consolidation Improve the Financial Condition of Local Authorities?

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vertical consolidation of small local authorities providing neighborhood services and large authorities providing strategic services into unitary authorities is assumed to improve financial condition by creating new economies of scale and scope.
Rhys Andrews, Dennis De Widt
wiley   +1 more source

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