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The weakness of resettlement safeguards in mining

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2016
Given the levels of uncertainty that surround mining activities, it is questionable whether current planning practices can safeguard against the risks associated with displacement and resettlement, and whether industry practice is consistent with the ...
John R Owen, Deanna Kemp
doaj  

Corporate Social Responsibility Legal Framework in Southeast Asia: Comparing Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand

open access: yesSASI
Introduction: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has evolved over time, reflecting changes in corporate thinking and practices regarding their relationships with society and the environment. Purposes of the Research: This research aims to analyze the
Martono Anggusti   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patient‐reported outcomes, postoperative pain and pain relief after day‐case surgery (POPPY): short‐term peri‐operative analgesic use

open access: yesAnaesthesia, EarlyView.
Summary Introduction An increasing proportion of complex surgical procedures are being performed in the UK as day‐cases, with variable and limited follow up. Discharge prescriptions must provide adequate analgesia, while considering the safety of the patient and public, following best practice guidance and good opioid stewardship.
Anna Ratcliffe   +2083 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Concept of Childhood in Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole and John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany

open access: yesAstra Salvensis, 2019
This article studies the concept of childhood as the content side of the word sign and considers the main directions of this research. It is noted that the concept of childhood is close to the concept of child, but they are not identical, because their ...
Lazzat MUKHTAR
doaj  

Do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation practice and policy in Ireland: a mixed-methods study of service user and advocacy group perspectives

open access: yesHealth Research Policy and Systems
Background Cardiopulmonary resuscitation offers the potential to save a person’s life. However, this highly invasive medical treatment is not always appropriate, and the likelihood of success is relatively low.
John Lombard, Hope Davidson, Owen Doody
doaj   +1 more source

Emma Martin and the manhandled womb in early Victorian England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Emma Martin (née Bullock) was born in 1811 and died in 1851. She was a socialist and freethinker. As a child she was strongly religious and at the age of seventeen joined the Particular Baptists – a Calvanist grouping.
Janes, Dominic
core  

Infection control in the brain and the eye

open access: yesActa Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract The Central Nervous System (CNS), comprising the brain and the eye, is considered to have a ‘privileged’ mechanism for dealing with immunological challenge (immune privilege, IP). CNS IP has been revealed through experiments using foreign protein antigens and cell and tissue alloantigens (grafts), but evidence for a role for IP in modulating ...
John V. Forrester   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's ‘primordial soup’? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract The use of stone hammers to produce sharp stone flakes—knapping—is thought to represent a significant stage in hominin technological evolution because it facilitated the exploitation of novel resources, including meat obtained from medium‐to‐large‐sized vertebrates. The invention of knapping may have occurred via an additive (i.e., cumulative)
Metin I. Eren   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Risk Thresholds in Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIM)

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIMs) are a type of clinical trial involving deliberately exposing human volunteers to an infectious agent. Compared to studies of natural infection, CHIMs offers distinctive benefits, from the ability to study presymptomatic infection to a direct assessment of the efficacy of vaccines and therapeutics in a ...
Alexa Nord‐Bronzyk   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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