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The rite of passage of becoming a humanitarian health worker: experiences of retention in Sweden

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2018
Background: Low retention of humanitarian workers poses constraints on humanitarian organisations’ capacity to respond effectively to disasters. Research has focused on reasons for humanitarian workers leaving the sector, but little is known about the ...
S. Albuquerque   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of Street’s Physical Elements on Walkability: a Case of Mawlawi Street in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

open access: yes, 2016
A pleasant walking environment is a precondition for living in a sustainable city. Appropriate street design can increase quality and quantity of walking. However, the adequacy and quality of physical elements as the most significant components of street
Hazhar Muhammad Khder   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What is a rite? Émile Durkheim, a hundred years later

open access: yesOpen Information Science, 2018
This paper is focused on the anthropological concept of ritual, starting from Emile Durkheim's approach in Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (1912).
Lorenzo d’Orsi, F. Dei
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Liminality as a Conceptual Frame for Understanding the Family Caregiving Rite of Passage: An Integrative Review

open access: yesResearch in Nursing and Health, 2014
Family caregiving is a significant rite of passage experienced by family caregivers of individuals with protracted illness or injury. In an integrative review of 26 studies, we characterized family caregiving from the sociocultural perspective of ...
S. Gibbons, A. Ross, M. Bevans
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Recombination-Induced Tag Exchange (RITE) Cassette Series to Monitor Protein Dynamics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

open access: yesG3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2013
Proteins are not static entities. They are highly mobile, and their steady-state levels are achieved by a balance between ongoing synthesis and degradation. The dynamic properties of a protein can have important consequences for its function. For example,
Marit Terweij   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Restoration or Invention? Archbishop Cisneros and the Mozarabic Rite in Toledo

open access: yes, 2015
As archbishop of Toledo from 1495 to 1517, Francisco Ximénez de Cisneros carried out a multifaceted campaign of support for the Mozarabic rite, which had been preserved in the Middle Ages by Christians living in Toledo under Muslim rule.
S. Boynton
semanticscholar   +1 more source
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

, 2022
Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth - routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary and even unhealthy?
R. Davis-Floyd
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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