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Distribution, ecological and coenotic features of Sedum annuum (Crassulaceae) in Ukraine
Ukrainian Botanical JournalThis article summarizes information on the natural and synanthropic distribution of the arcto-alpine species Sedum annuum (Crassulaceae) within Ukraine, its ecological and biological characteristics, and descriptions of its synanthropic habitats.
Orlov O.O. , Shynder O.I., Kish R.Ya.
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Labor Certification for Permanent Immigrant Admissions [PDF]
, 2003 [Summary] The foreign labor certification program in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is responsible for ensuring that foreign workers do not displace or adversely affect working conditions of U.S. workers.
Wasem, Ruth Ellen
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Lessons Learnt From Long‐Term Monitoring of River Restoration in an English Chalk Stream
River Research and Applications, EarlyView.ABSTRACT River restoration can be difficult to evaluate due to insufficient monitoring over timescales too short to adequately capture physical and ecological response. To better understand restoration outcomes, this study quantified changes in physical habitat (depth, velocity, substrate composition) and macroinvertebrates at two restoration projects ...
Lewis A. Dolman +2 more
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The Administration of U.S. Immigration Policy: Time For Another Change [PDF]
, 1994 With the Clinton Administration calling for efforts to reinvent government to meet the challenges of the next century, it is amazing that the nation’s immigration system, has so far been excluded from these reform proposals.
Briggs, Vernon M., Jr.
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Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Health disparities rooted in systemic oppression and perpetuated by implicit bias among medical professionals remain pervasive across North America. These inequities are often sustained by providers' limited awareness of social realities that shape the lives of people from marginalized communities.
Sabah K. Elias +13 more
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, 2018 Through a careful tracing of the botanical presence of mulberry trees in Middlesex, Sandilands argues for a reading practice that takes plants seriously.
Sandilands, Catriona
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Who Does Bogotá “Care” for? Care Blocks, Care Workers and the Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Bogotá's District Care System within the framework of urban social sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on the Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado), it employs a mixed‐methods approach—legal analysis, interviews, testimonies, surveys, and InfoCuidado data—to explore the paradox of a
Valentina Montoya‐Robledo +1 more
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The Fallacy of the Homuncular Fallacy [PDF]
, 2018 A leading theoretical framework for naturalistic explanation of mind holds that we explain the mind by positing progressively "stupider" capacities ("homunculi") until the mind is "discharged" by means of capacities that are not intelligent at all.
Figdor, Carrie
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What Program for Love in the 21st Century? Thinking With and Beyond Luhmann
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT From a sociological perspective, the paper examines how normative frameworks for intimate relationships have changed since the publication of Luhmann's Love as Passion (1982). Building on Luhmann's notion of a program for love, we discuss his claim that late 20th century love semantics were organized around a program of understanding. We argue
Chiara Piazzesi, Martin Blais
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Skeptical Scrutiny Of Plenary Power: Judicial and Executive Branch Decision Making in Miller v Albright [PDF]
, 1998 In 1996, just a few months after the United States successfully urged the Supreme Court in United States v. Virginia to invalidate as sex-discriminatory the male-only admissions policy at the Virginia Military Institute, the District of Columbia Circuit ...
Aleinikoff, T. Alexander +1 more
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