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Navigating across individual and deliberative values: A dual Q‐method approach to elicit diverse values in grassland restoration

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The current ‘UN Decade on Restoration’ calls for collaboration between scientists and practitioners to formulate guidelines for ecosystem restoration, within which transdisciplinary approaches are imperative to rethink the diverse values associated with nature, paving the way for sustainable ecosystem restoration.
Miguel A. Cebrián‐Piqueras   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pain intensity and functional limitation are not related with medical image findings in patients with shoulder pain

open access: yesRevista Dor
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Shoulder pain limits patients' ability to perform daily life activities, as well as to carry out professional activities. This study aimed at evaluating the relationship between pain intensity, incapacity and medical image ...
Francine Aparecida Coelho de Oliveira   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aristotle on natural slavery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Aristotle's claim that natural slaves do not possess autonomous rationality (Pol. 1.5, 1254b20-23) cannot plausibly be interpreted in an unrestricted sense, since this would conflict with what Aristotle knew about non-Greek societies.
Heath, M.
core   +1 more source

Digitisation of herbarium specimens to the benefit of research: An African perspective focusing on South Africa and Western Indian Ocean Island states

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Botanical exploration, discovery and conservation rely heavily on access to herbarium collections. Recently, digital access to label information, including georeferenced locality data, and images of herbarium specimens available online have greatly increased usage of herbarium specimen data.
Ronell R. Klopper   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Certifying incapacity for work [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1995
EDITOR,—The item in Medicopolitical Digest concerning proposed changes to the certification of medical incapacity for work may mislead doctors about the changes that have been proposed for the introduction of incapacity benefit next April.1 Ministers announced last year that, as part of the changes, the role of general practitioners as gatekeepers to ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Family and Medical Leave Act: Current Legislative Activity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
[Excerpt] Congress passed the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) as a means of helping individuals more easily balance their family and work obligations. Over the past few decades, married mothers with young children increasingly have strived to fulfill
Levine, Linda
core   +2 more sources

Beyond Bloodlines: A Review of Succession Planning and Generational Continuity in African Family Businesses

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 107 peer‐reviewed articles on succession planning in African family businesses, offering a conceptual reframing of succession as an institutionally embedded process rather than a discrete managerial task. Moving beyond proceduralist and Eurocentric paradigms, the review integrates institutional theory,
Augustine Okeke
wiley   +1 more source

Older People'S Preferences for Self-Involvement in Decision-Making if Faced With Serious Illness [PDF]

open access: yesGeriatrics, Gerontology and Aging
OBJECTIVES: To examine older people's preferences for self-involvement in end-of-life care decision-making in scenarios of mental capacity (competency) and incapacity, and to identify associated factors.
Rafaela Jorge   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Kahler v. Kansas: The End of the Insanity Defense? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In 1995, Kansas, along with a small number of other states, passed a statute abrogating the widely recognized common law insanity defense. At common law, a defendant could raise the defense when a mental illness impaired his ability to distinguish right ...
Roytman, Eric
core   +1 more source

AGT: Efficient Offline Reinforcement Learning With Advantage‐Guided Transformer

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Offline reinforcement learning (RL) is a paradigm that seeks to train policies directly based on fixed datasets derived from previous interactions with the environment. However, offline RL faces critical challenges in environments characterised by sparse rewards and datasets dominated by suboptimal trajectories.
Jiaye Wei   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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