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Integrating Biobanking Into Conservation Practice: The Development and Impact of the EAZA Biobank

open access: yesZoo Biology, EarlyView.
Overview of the structural setup and terms of service of the EAZA Biobank, Left panel illustrates for samples stored at ‐80ºC sampling (1), submission (2), storage (3) in one of the four hubs hosted at: Antwerp Zoo (Belgium), Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) (United Kingdom), Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) (Germany ...
Christina Hvilsom   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Banking Biodiversity: Ex Vivo Solutions for a Planet in Crisis

open access: yesZoo Biology, EarlyView.
Genetic diversity is being lost faster than it can be cataloged. Biobanking preserves cells, gametes, and DNA as recoverable material for future conservation use, and delivers most when collections are established proactively rather than deployed once populations are already critically depleted.
Oz Pomp, Nicole Tay, Shangzhe Xie
wiley   +1 more source

Highly Configurable Evolutionary Multi‐Objective Optimisation and Application in UAV Path Planning

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multi‐objective optimisation is crucial in engineering and real‐world decision‐making. Although traditional decomposition‐based approaches such as MOEA/D yield reasonable results, they depend heavily on expert knowledge. Existing MetaBBO approaches partially alleviate this reliance, however, they offer limited configurability and lack real ...
Kaixu Chen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Encountering ‘Broken’ Public Services: Defiance and Disaffection at the Frontlines of the Democratic State

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The apparently parlous state of public services in advanced liberal democracies has become a hot topic, nowhere more so than in ‘broken Britain’. Indeed, there is much debate in both politics scholarship and political rhetoric about the nature and causes of this decline, and its potential remedies. All perspectives are at pains to characterise
John Boswell
wiley   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Opening the Door Wider to Community Support of People With Serious Mental Illnesses: What States Can Learn From the IDD Experience

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points The federal government should provide states with authorities under Medicaid that allow greater use of home and community‐based services for people with serious and persistent mental illness. This requires deemphasizing authorities that require budget neutrality in a post‐institutionalization world (Section 1115 waivers) and relying on ...
HAROLD POLLACK   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing Social and Cultural Needs with Lean Management in a National Sample of US Physician Practices

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points This national study of US physician practices finds that lean management, an approach to operational excellence and continuous quality improvement, can support integration of social and cultural services in primary care. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and commercial payers can expand programs including value‐based, two‐sided
DOROTHY Y. HUNG   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Recruitment and Pregnancy Resources: Anti‐Abortion Feminists Come to Campus, United States, 1990s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context whereby few supports existed for young pregnant women.
Isobel Bloom
wiley   +1 more source

Respected and Ignored: British Women and the Arab Revolt (1936–39) in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article aims to reinsert British women and their perspectives into our understanding of anticolonial resistance in Palestine. Historiography on the Arab Revolt (1936–39) has previously been built from colonial state archives that disproportionally speak with a male voice and, as such, rely on certain gendered assumptions to describe the ...
Alex Worsfold
wiley   +1 more source

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