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Stakeholder Perspectives on Therapeutic and Safe Building Design in Residential Care

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Residential care is a form of out‐of‐home care that plays a critical role in supporting vulnerable young people in Australia. However, there is an evidence gap regarding the built environment in this context. This research aimed to explore the perspectives of key stakeholders in residential care in Victoria, Australia, regarding design that ...
Carmen Schroder, Olivia Crivari, Phillippa Carnemolla, Libby Callaway   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Species composition and diversity of on-farm tree resources in Kalu district, Northeastern Ethiopia

Scientific African
On-farm tree resources sustain biodiversity, provide multiple products, and improve resilience of farming systems. Understanding the diversity and composition of on-farm tree resources is essential for designing tree-growing interventions, yet remains ...
Mohammed Ahmed Ebrahim, Zebene Asfaw, Shewakena Teklegiorgis, Ewunetu Tazebew   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prison as Seen by Convict Criminologists [PDF]

, 2010
Most criminologists tend to base their view of prison on ideological assumptions gathered from secondary sources, with at best limited entry to the prison world.
Grisby, Robert S., Jones, Richard S., Lenza, Michael, Murphy, Daniel S., Newbold, Greg, Richards, Stephen C.   +5 more
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Smart Computing and Sensing Technologies for Animal Welfare: A Systematic Review [PDF]

, 2016
Animals play a profoundly important and intricate role in our lives today. Dogs have been human companions for thousands of years, but they now work closely with us to assist the disabled, and in combat and search and rescue situations.
Amla, Nina, Jukan, Admela, Masip-Bruin, Xavi   +2 more
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Nothing to See Here: Researching Non‐Recent Child Abuse in Schools and the Politics of Silence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While institutions, including schools, have responsibilities to protect children from harm, responses to instances of child sexual abuse have often exhibited avoidance and denial. Recent public inquiries in Australia revealed that some institutions, particularly in the Catholic sector, employed a deliberate strategy of silence which was used ...
John Crowley, Katie Wright, Kate O'Connor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Live Fences, Pastures and Riparian Forest: How Agricultural Lands Contribute to Bird Diversity in Northern Costa Rica

Diversity
Agricultural expansion is a major driver of biodiversity loss in tropical regions, yet human-dominated landscapes also hold potential for biodiversity conservation when managed as multifunctional mosaics that retain patches of native vegetation.
María A. Maglianesi, Corina García Hernández, Anthony Gamboa Valenciano, Carlos Reyes Rugama, L. Felipe Sancho Jiménez, Sonia Beatriz Canavelli   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Military Architecture in far Morocco (the kasabh model)

Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2020
Defensive fortifications are one of the most important means used by the ruling authorities to defend and protect Islamic cities, and cities in Morocco retain a huge heritage of fortresses, castles, fences and Kasbah that the rulers of successive ...
Mohamed Roshdy, Abdel-Aziz Salah Salem, Osama Talaat Abdel-Naeem, Souad Mohamed Hassan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Good fences make good neighbors: an investigation on the place of law and its limits in the context of the Brazilian private law movement Escola do Direito Civil-Constitucional [PDF]

, 2012
In this paper, an analysis of Robert Frost’s poem Mending Wall is presented as a hermeneutical key to investigate and criticize two examples of the oblivion of the reasonable distinction and the reasonable relationship between ethics and law proposed by ...
Aguiar de Oliveira, Julio, Barreto Sampaio, Rodolpho   +1 more
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Field Experiments With a Wind Tunnel on the Flight Speed of Some West African Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) [PDF]

, 1981
An open wind tunnel, down which air was blown from over a bait animal, was used in the field in the Gambia to measure the flight speed of host-seeking mosquitoes. Insects were trapped on an electrocuting grid fitted halfway up the tunnel. As the speed of
Gillies, M.T., Wilkes, T.J.
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Skeletal pathologies in extant crocodilians as a window into the paleopathology of fossil archosaurs

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Crocodilians, together with birds, are the only extant relatives to many extinct archosaur groups, making them highly important for interpreting paleopathological conditions in a phylogenetic disease bracketing model. Despite this, comprehensive data on osteopathologies in crocodilians remain scarce.
Alexis Cornille, Kyla Beguesse, Ewan Wolff, Clemens Zinner, Patrick Asbach, François Clarac, Florian Witzmann   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source