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Can boarding schools help looked after and vulnerable children improve academic attainment?
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The education of children in statutory care, or at the edge of care, is a serious concern for governments and policymakers. How to promote educational opportunities for these children can involve challenging and often contentious proposals. In this paper, we study one proposal put into practice in England: the provision to children who are in ...
David Murphy +2 more
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Possessives with kinship terms in Italian and Italo-Romance dialects
IsoglossThis study investigates the acceptability of constructions containing third-person possessives combined with singular and plural kinship terms in adult bilectal speakers of Italian and different Italo-Romance varieties spoken in six different geographic
Francesca Volpato, Gianluca Lebani
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Actually existing Chinese matriarchy [PDF]
, 2008 The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico ...
Stafford, Charles
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Within the educational literature, inter‐organisational school networks are commonly considered instruments for administration, management, and school improvement, but are rarely scrutinised as objects of study themselves. Conversely, in organisational studies, this perspective is given more prominence.
Ignacio Wyman, Paul Wilfred Armstrong
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The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Urbanisation is a key driver of global environmental change and presents animals with novel stressors and challenges. It can fundamentally influence social behaviour and has the potential to reshape within‐ and between‐species social interactions. Given the role of social behaviour in reproductive fitness and survival, understanding how social
Avery L. Maune +2 more
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Functional Equivalence in Kinship Terms Translation --A Case of Shapiro's Outlaws of the Marsh [PDF]
, 2017 Gao Fen
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Children 'in need of care' or in need of cash? Questioning social security provisions for orphans in the context of the South African AIDS pandemic [PDF]
, 2003 Joint working paper of the Children's Institute and Centre for Actuarial Research, University of Cape ...
Meintjes, Helen +3 more
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An Eco‐Social Lens on Voice for Undervoiced and Unvoiced Stakeholders
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This conceptual paper argues it is important from an ecological–social (eco‐social) whole system point of view for businesses and policymakers to take the interests of and impacts on unvoiced and undervoiced [un(der)voiced] stakeholders into consideration for both strategic and justice reasons.
Sandra Waddock
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Functioning of Vocatives in the Family Discourse (based on Oirat and English language)
Oriental Studies, 2018 The article deals with address terms that function in family discourse. The material was collected through means of interviewing. There is made a tentative attempt of comparative analysis of vocatives in English and still underreasearched Oirat languages.
Andrey Radionov
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is strong evidence that design for remanufacturing (DfRem) can reduce initial‐design carbon emissions by up to 30%, and that product design can critically affect remanufacturing feasibility, yet academic adoption of DfRem remains limited.
Okechukwu Okorie +4 more
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