Inferring transient dynamics of human populations from matrix non-normality [PDF]
In our increasingly unstable and unpredictable world, population dynamics rarely settle uniformly to long-term behaviour. However, projecting period-by-period through the preceding fluctuations is more data-intensive and analytically involved than ...
T Ezard (21882794) +7 more
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Women's experiences of their perineum following childbirth: expectations, reality and returning to normality. [PDF]
Women's experiences of their perineum following childbirth: expectations, reality and returning to normality The aim of the study was to explore the feelings, perceptions and experiences of women in relation to their perineum following childbirth in the ...
Way, S.
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Concern for the state: ‘Normality’, state effect and distributional claims in Serbia [PDF]
Ethnographies of the post-Yugoslav region often focus on the production of the ‘state effect’ through narratives of statelessness, namely on the normative imagination evident in the yearnings for ‘normal life’. Drawing from fieldwork research in
Rajković Ivan
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The authority of a souverain no longer seems important if one wants to analyse complex modern democratic societies. At the same time, one can observe an increasing desire for authority in social and political life, a longing for orientation and guidance.
Maren Wehrle
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Purity or perversion? from taboo to fact: kindergarten teachers’ reflections on age-normal sexuality
Many educators and pedagogues around the world face challenging situations in their everyday work. Being caught off guard when children begin to explore their bodies and show curiosity about body parts and sexual issues is one of the most uncomfortable ...
Elisabeth Walsøe Lehn +2 more
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The Ecological-Enactive Model of Disability: Why Disability Does Not Entail Pathological Embodiment
In the last 50 years, discussions of how to understand disability have been dominated by the medical and social models. Paradoxically, both models overlook the disabled person’s experience of the lived body, thus reducing the body of the disabled person ...
Juan Toro +6 more
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A unified theory for weak separation properties
We devise a framework which leads to the formulation of a unified theory of normality (regularity), semi-normality (semi-regularity), s-normality (s-regularity), feebly-normality (feebly-regularity), pre-normality (pre-regularity), and others.
Mahide Küçük, İdris Zorlutuna
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A valid interpretation of most statistical techniques requires that the criteria for one or more assumptions are met. In published articles, however, little information tends to be reported on whether the data satisfy the assumptions underlying the ...
Rink eHoekstra +2 more
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The DSM: Mindful Science or Mindless Power? A critical review
In this paper we review the DSM, its scientific bases and utility. The concepts of normality, pathology and boundaries between them are critically reviewed.
Bassam eKhoury +3 more
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Defektní a přece socialističtí? O normalitě žáků zvláštních škol v počátcích československé komunistické diktatury || Defective but still socialist? On the normality of pupils in special schools at the beginning of the Czechoslovak communist dictatorship [PDF]
After the start of the communist dictatorship in 1948, schools for children requiring special care, including special schools for children with reduced intellectual abilities, became part of the school system. These institutions sought to educate young
Jan Randák
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