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Where We Stand: Community Indicators for Metropolitan Philadelphia [PDF]
Compares greater Philadelphia with eight metropolitan areas using indicators of regional growth, family income, housing, taxes, education, arts and culture, health, safety, transportation, and environment.
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ABSTRACT High‐resolution remote sensing, magnetometry, and trench stratigraphy identify a significant flood event at Lagash (modern Tell al‐Hiba) during the late Early Dynastic period (ca. 2400–2350 BC). Satellite imagery and magnetometry reveal a 90‐meter‐wide meander belt—3–15 times broader than documented canals—adjacent to primary temple districts.
Reed Goodman +8 more
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Exploring Social Media Purposes and Strategic Approaches Among US Municipalities
ABSTRACT Social media represents a strategic tool for governments to disseminate information, build relationships, and achieve outcomes consistent with stated political, social, and administrative missions. As a digital ecosystem, social media is an essential part of any modern communication strategy, though there is little research into the purposes ...
Jeffrey A. Stone
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Marriage has long been a legacy of overseas deployment for Australian servicemen. In the case of the war in Vietnam, Australian men often interacted with local women on base, in civilian spaces, or in passing. Occasionally, couples would form private relationships and, in some cases, marry and return to Australia at the end of deployment.
Anna Wilkinson
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Abstract Magistrates’ courts in England and Wales deal with around 95% of cases from start to completion, with many cases heard by lay magistrates. Despite this reliance on both the lower courts and decision making by lay adjudicators, it has been repeatedly argued that magistrates’ justice receives little attention. McBarnet (1981) argues that this is
Amy Kirby
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Short Abstract This study examines the complex dynamics of rural gentrification in a Shanghai village, focusing on the evolving relationships between two waves of gentrifiers. It reveals how initial cooperation between first‐wave gentrifiers and locals transforms into conflict and displacement as second‐wave gentrifiers arrive with differing ...
Jinwei Hao +3 more
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Kinship Health Relationships: Reconfiguring the “Good Death” in Mixed Species Families
Through an innovative interspecies analysis, this article explores narratives surrounding the medical treatment of humans and pet animals at the end of life among U.K. veterinary surgeons, medical practitioners, and members of the public. Contrasting the care options open to pet owners with those available to human patients, and through a thematic ...
Vanessa Ashall +3 more
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‘We are here our hearts are there’: Rurality, belonging and walking together
Abstract The notion of the rural idyll is well recognised within scholarship. Allied to this imaginary is that rural areas comprise white and homogenous space, with socially conservative values that are exclusionary. In recent decades, studies have identified the arrival of migrants into so‐called New Immigration Destinations, rural spaces with little ...
Henna Asikainen, Ruth McAreavey
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Rural being: Merleau‐Ponty, embodied perception and intersectionality
Abstract Discussions of space, place and intersectionality have been present in rural studies since the early 2010s. Drawing upon the ‘relational turn’ in rural sociology and geography, this research has tended to focus on the ways in which the materiality of rural space interlocks with the connective lines of the various identity markers (e.g., ‘race’,
Nathan Aaron Kerrigan
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Campus Environment 2008: A National Report Card on Sustainability in Higher Education [PDF]
Presents survey findings on national and regional trends among colleges in environmental leadership in management, academic courses in sustainability, and conservation efforts in operations.
David J. Eagan +3 more
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