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Aspects related to quality of life and physical activity of military police officers of Santa Catarina – Brazil

Motricidade, 2012
This study aims to investigate the relationship between quality of life, health, physical activity, occupation, body composition and sociodemographic characteristics of Military Police of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Antônio Melo Schlichting, Jader Peron Schlichting, Paulo José Barbosa Gutierres Filho, Fernando Adami, António Silva   +4 more
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Field evaluations of thermal optics and tracking tunnels for small mammal surveys at airports and grass dominated habitats

Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Small mammal survey tools are needed at airports to help inform aircraft strike‐risk management. We evaluated thermal optics and tracking tunnels as small mammal survey tools. We conclude that thermal optics would not be a viable survey tool for mouse‐sized mammals (19‐41 g) at airfields and other thick grass habitats unless grass height was maintained
Aaron B. Shiels, Hunter Ray, Travis L. Guerrant, Craig K. Bloomquist, Scott F. Beckerman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
wiley   +1 more source

Securing Peace in the Indigene-Settler Crisis of Jos, Nigeria: A Case for Second-Generation Security Approaches

ABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBO, 2013
The frequency and brutish nature of violent conflicts especially those rooted in contestations oyer autochthony and land in many post-colonial African nation-states have exposed the limited capability of the Police to contain such crises: thereby ...
Gbemisola Abdul-Jeleel Animasawun, Adegboyega Adedolapo Ola   +1 more
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Audiology profile in the military police state of São Paulo

International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2010
Introduction: The military police are a population exposed to noise impact due to training with firearms. Objective: To investigate the audiological profile of the military police in São Paulo state, and to correlate the age and duration of exposure and ...
Kinoshita, Sérgio Koodi, Chagas, Patrícia da Silva Carlos, Guida, Heraldo Lorena, Diniz, Thiago Hernandes   +3 more
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Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualizing moral migration: how disillusionment and the transnational right motivate migration to Russia Conceptualiser la migration morale : comment les désillusions et la droite transnationale motivent l’émigration vers la Russie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
wiley   +1 more source

From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

The Carceral Shadow: Criminal Justice as a Determinant of Health and Challenges for Policymakers

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points The criminal justice system functions as a primary social determinant of health in the United States, generating disproportionate physical, psychological, and chronic health burdens on Black communities and other marginalized groups. Policing structural barriers—including qualified immunity, police union contracts, and municipal financing
RASHAWN RAY, KEON GILBERT
wiley   +1 more source

O ‘policial social’: Algumas observações sobre o engajamento de policiais militares em projetos sociais no contexto de favelas ocupadas por UPPs

Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social, 2015
A atuação de policiais militares em projetos sociais produz uma dinâmica repleta de ambivalências e conflitos nas favelas ocupadas por Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora (UPPs).
Cesar Pinheiro Teixeira
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