The information learned from discovered wild bumble bee nests can be of great conservation value if studied in situ and post‐season excavation in a standardised way. We provide standardised guidance to follow when nest discoveries arise, including key conservation questions and methodological guidelines to study behaviour, floral use, genetics, body ...
Tamara A. Smith+12 more
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Spatial Modelling of Emergency Service Response Times [PDF]
This article concerns the statistical modelling of emergency service response times. We apply advanced methods from spatial survival analysis to deliver inference for data collected by the London Fire Brigade on response times to reported dwelling fires.
arxiv
Work values and volunteers : an investigation into the work values of New Zealand volunteer firefighters : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand [PDF]
Declining populations in smaller rural areas in New Zealand over the past 30 years have resulted in significant reductions in many services and an increased reliance on volunteer labour to provide these services.
Stark, Caroline Maree
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Hope and Distress: A Cross‐Country Study Amid the Russian‐Ukrainian War
ABSTRACT Conflict deeply affects human experiences, frequently testing individual resilience to its breaking point and leaving enduring psychological and societal wounds. The current conflict in Ukraine, initiated by Russia's invasion in 2022, illustrates this phenomenon by altering regional relationships and triggering a major humanitarian crisis ...
Simon Esbit+19 more
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Fanny Bré in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939): The meaning of nursing care in the international brigades [PDF]
Cinta Sadurní‐Bassols+2 more
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Property as power: A theory of representation
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Rutger Claassen
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Ideology and total war : military intellectuals and the analysis of the Spanish Civil War in Britain, 1936-1943 [PDF]
The recent historical interest in the analysis of the lessons of the Spanish Civil War by the European powers has tended to focus very strongly on the tactical experiences and the study of new military technology.
Searle, DA
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DimensionRank: Personal Neural Representations for Personalized General Search [PDF]
Web Search and Social Media have always been two of the most important applications on the internet. We begin by giving a unified framework, called general search, of which which all search and social media products can be seen as instances. DimensionRank is our main contribution.
arxiv
Challenge Patient Dispatching in Mass Casualty Incidents [PDF]
Efficient management of mass casualty incidents is complex, since regular emergency medical services struc-tures have to be switched to a temporary “disaster mode” involving additional operational and tactical struc-tures.
Adler, Christine+3 more
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