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Operating and Managing Street Outreach Services [PDF]

, 2011
Increasingly, cities have added street outreach to the mix of strategies used in comprehensive gang reduction efforts, drawing upon mounting evidence of impact.
Angela M. Wolf, Livier Gutierrez
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TreeSpider: In‐Canopy Exploration With Tether‐Based Aerial Modular Arms

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A tethered drone with perching arms and a 360° ring enables unprecedented maneuverability within dense forest canopies. By dynamically adjusting tether length and decoupling pitch from the frame, it navigates between branches, senses multiple trees, and interacts physically with foliage.
Luca Romanello, Tian Lan, Salaheldin Hassan, Maximilian Leutschafft, Erdem Ekinci, Sophie F. Armanini, Mirko Kovac, Basaran Bahadir Kocer   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

3D plants: the impact of integrating science, design, and technology on high school student learning and interests in STEAM subjects and careers

Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research
STEAM education is an educational approach of interdisciplinary teaching of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics. STEAM education, however, is often viewed as only including art elements into STEM teaching.
Sandra Arango-Caro, Tiffany Langewisch, Kaitlyn Ying, Michelle Arellano Haberberger, Nate Ly, Christopher Branton, Kristine Callis-Duehl   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Detection of chronic wasting disease prions in soil at an illegal white-tailed deer carcass disposal site

Prion
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a contagious prion disorder affecting cervids such as deer, elk, caribou, and moose, causing progressive and severe neurological degeneration followed by eventual death.
Madeline K. Grunklee, Stuart S. Lichtenberg, Nicole A. Lurndahl, Marc D. Schwabenlander, Diana L. Karwan, E. Anu Li, Jason C. Bartz, Qi Yuan, Peter A. Larsen, Tiffany M. Wolf   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biomedical laboratory science education: standardising teaching content in resource-limited countries

African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2013
Background: There is a worldwide shortage of qualified laboratory personnel to provide adequate testing for the detection and monitoring of diseases. In an effort to increase laboratory capacity in developing countries, new skills have been introduced ...
Wendy Arneson, Cathy Robinson, Bryan Nyary   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Street Outreach Workers: Best Practices and Lessons Learned [PDF]

, 2008
Street outreach workers are an important part of the Senator Charles E. Shannon Jr. Community Safety Initiative (CSI) comprehensive gang and youth violence reduction strategy in Massachusetts1. Street outreach involves the use of individuals to “work the
Bynum, Tim S., Decker, Scott H., Farrell, Amy, McDevitt, Jack, Varano, Sean P.   +4 more
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Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe, Juo‐Han Tsay, Sarah A. Low   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

VcRR2 regulates chilling-mediated flowering through expression of hormone genes in a transgenic blueberry mutant

Horticulture Research, 2019
The molecular mechanism underlying dormancy release and the induction of flowering remains poorly understood in woody plants. Mu-legacy is a valuable blueberry mutant, in which a transgene insertion caused increased expression of a RESPONSE REGULATOR 2 ...
Tianyi Lin, Aaron Walworth, Xiaojuan Zong, Gharbia H. Danial, Elise M. Tomaszewski, Pete Callow, Xiumei Han, L. Irina Zaharia, Patrick P. Edger, Gan-yuan Zhong, Guo-qing Song   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Different Soil Geological Formations (Parent Materials) on Land Suitability for Maize (Zea Mays) Production in Niger State, Nigeria [PDF]

Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development Studies
This study evaluated the suitability of some soils developed under two geological formations (that is, basement complex rocks and the sedimentary rocks) in Niger State, for maize (Zea mays) production.
Daniel Mathew, Lawal Baba Abubakar, Mohammed Tetengi, Ibrahim Philip Audu, Shema Andrew Monday, Aliyu Emmannuel John, Uyokei Uba, Lemibe Prince Chisom   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Who Are the Farmers Participating in a Carbon Sequestration Program? Results of a Discrete Choice Experiment in Germany

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural soils offer great potential for carbon sequestration through humus formation. One way to motivate farmers to build up humus is through humus programs. These are still at an early stage of development, poorly explored, and the number of participating farmers is low. Our aim is to explain the heterogeneity of farmers' willingness to
Julia B. Block, Michael Danne, Oliver Mußhoff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source