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Embracing Resilience: Ageing, Disability, and Disasters in Zimbabwe—A Case of Cyclone Idai

open access: yesClimate Resilience and Sustainability
The impacts of disasters and climate change have been particularly devastating for vulnerable and marginalised communities. This study explores the resilience of ageing individuals, persons with disabilities, and people living with HIV during and after ...
Fortune Mangara   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advocacy planning in South Africa and its role in contributing to sustainable development/endeavours

open access: yesTown and Regional Planning
This commentary briefly examines the literature on legislation and policies that impacted the town and regional planning discipline in South Africa, both before and after the transition to democracy.
Nosipho Moloi
doaj   +1 more source

High‐Fidelity Synthetic Data Replicates Clinical Prediction Performance in a Million‐Patient Diabetes Cohort

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This study generates high‐fidelity synthetic longitudinal records for a million‐patient diabetes cohort, successfully replicating clinical predictive performance. However, deeper analysis reveals algorithmic biases and trajectory inconsistencies that escape standard quality metrics. These findings challenge current validation norms, demonstrating why a
Francisco Ortuño   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of MGNREGS on socio-economic and political empowerment of marginalised communities: a study of Balrampur district of Uttar Pradesh, India

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance
This study attempts to analyse the extent of socio-economic and political empowerment of marginalised communities through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the Balrampur district of Uttar Pradesh.
Tahawwar Husain   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Maternal Preconception Antibiotic Exposure Disrupts Microbial Succession: A Transgenerational Risk for Offspring Gut Mucosal Immaturity and Colitis Susceptibility

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This study reveals that maternal antibiotic exposure prior to conception disrupts intergenerational gut microbial succession. By enhancing maternal‐offspring microbial transmission, altering microbial developmental trajectories and increasing selective pressures during community assembly, these disturbances lead to persistent gut mucosal immaturity and
Yuzhu Chen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting People from Marginalised Communities into Employment

open access: yes, 2020
Diversity means hiring difference rather than choosing the people whom you find ‘comfortable’ and who mirror your own experience and background. It means working against conscious and unconscious bias, educating yourself and proactively finding merit in people different to you.
openaire   +3 more sources

NGO provision of basic education: alternative or complementary service delivery to support access to the excluded? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
While access to state schooling has grown in many countries in recent years, a hardcore of marginalised children continue to be excluded from this. Some of these children are able to gain access to education through non-state provision. The focus of this
Rose, Pauline M
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Discovery of an Adaptive Neuroimmune Response Driving Itch and Fast Tick Removal with Implications for Preventing Pathogen Transmission

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Itch‐induced tick removal (IITR): An acquired neuroimmune mechanism, itch‐induced tick removal, develops after repeated tick exposure, mobilizing T cells and macrophages at the tick bite site to trigger a rapid scratching response that facilitates timely tick removal within a critical window that precedes the transmission of many tick‐borne pathogens ...
Johannes S. P. Doehl   +27 more
wiley   +1 more source

The unfinished business: A decolonial reflection on the State of Emergency song by Simphiwe Dana

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia
Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth critically examines colonialism, highlighting its violence, exploitation and dehumanisation. He argues that colonialism creates a stark division between the privileged colonisers and the marginalised colonised ...
Itumeleng D. Mothoagae   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Connected lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans communities? A scoping study to explore understandings and experiences of ‘community’ among LGBT people [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study examined understandings and experiences of LGBT communities, and assessed implications for health and wellbeing, employing a literature review, online survey and indepth interviews and discussion groups.
Formby, Eleanor
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