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Posttraumatic stress symptoms among adults caring for orphaned children in HIV-endemic South Africa. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
There is growing evidence that mental health is a significant issue among families affected by AIDS-related parental deaths. The current study examined posttraumatic stress symptoms and identified risk factors among adults caring for AIDS-orphaned and ...

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Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi

open access: yesNatural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mediation in the Absence of Enforcement: Lessons From Gaza's Asymmetric War

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the possibilities and limits of mediation in highly asymmetric conflicts through the case of Qatar's engagement in Gaza between 2012 and 2026. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews, policy documents and secondary literature, it analyses the factors shaping the durability of ceasefire agreements following repeated rounds of ...
Ghassan Elkahlout
wiley   +1 more source

Japanese War Orphans and the Challenges of Repatriation in Post-Colonial East Asia

open access: yesAsia-Pacific Journal, 2006
In 1965, Japanese journalist Magoroku Ide accepted an invitation from the government of the People's Republic of China to visit the country. Still seven years before the resumption of diplomatic relations between Japan and China, travel to China was restricted to those officially invited and even they were subject to state surveillance.
openaire   +1 more source

Vulnerable within the vulnerable : protection of orphaned children heading households in Tanzania [PDF]

open access: yes
The adoption and ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1989 came as a promise to the improvement of children’s well-being and status throughout the globe.
Bisimba, Helen K.
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Automatic Programming with Ant Colony Optimization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Automatic programming is the use of search techniques to find programs that solve a problem. The most commonly explored automatic programming technique is genetic programming, which uses genetic algorithms to carry out the search.
Green, Jennifer   +2 more
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Depression among orphaned children with AIDS when compared to orphaned children with non-AIDS over the ages 16-17

open access: yes, 2022
Are adolescent children who are orphaned with AIDS at increased risk of depression When compared to adolescent children who are orphaned with non- AIDS during the ages of 16 and ...
Pallavi Shrivastava
core   +1 more source

Status of ash (Fraxinus spp.) in mixed hardwood post‐outbreak forests near the epicentre of the emerald ash borer invasion

open access: yesAgricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
The persistence and health of ash populations were characterized in post‐outbreak forests near the epicentre of the emerald ash borer (EAB) invasion in North America. Regenerating ash remained abundant, but densities of understory ash were higher in wetlands (hydric), while ash remained at the seedling stage in riparian (mesic) and upland (xeric ...
Aaron Tayal, Kayla I. Perry
wiley   +1 more source

Australian Royal Commissions Into Child Welfare, Abuse and Protection

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Both nationally and internationally, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA) is widely viewed as a remarkably successful public inquiry. Unlike many other commissions, it was stable, attracted little controversy, was highly regarded, and led to extensive legal, regulatory and policy reform ...
Shurlee Swain, Katie Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Orthogonal methods based ant colony search for solving continuous optimization problems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Research into ant colony algorithms for solving continuous optimization problems forms one of the most significant and promising areas in swarm computation.
Jun Zhang   +5 more
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