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Popular policing? Sector policing and the reinvention of police accountability [PDF]

, 1999
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The aim of this thesis is to explain the change in the debate about police accountability in Britain that took place in the 1980s.
Dixon, W.J., Dixon, William John
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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Preparation of Gold and Arsenic Certified Reference Materials for Chemical Composition Analysis in Carlin-type Gold Deposits

Yankuang ceshi, 2018
BACKGROUND: Carlin-type gold deposits have attracted much attention because of the influence of As on the analysis and recovery of gold. It is necessary to develop the specific reference materials (RM) to support application research.OBJECTIVE: Study ...
YANG Li-qin, CHEN Zhan-sheng, XIE Lu, LI Xuan-hui, FENG Liang, Aiao-jun, TANG Yu-lei   +6 more
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Re-engineering training on police use of force [PDF]

, 2015
Reports on the need to rethink the training that police officers receive on de-escalation strategies and tactics. First, the training currently provided to new recruits and experienced officers in most departments is inadequate.
Police Executive Research Forum
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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LCFND: OT–guided LLM evidence reasoning and graph verification for multimodal fake news detection

Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences
Multimodal fake news is difficult to detect when text and image remain topically aligned but diverge in local factual details such as entities, locations, time, or event attributes.
Yuechuan Zhang, Hongyu Jin, Yaxuan Wang, Bin Wei, Mingshu Zhang   +4 more
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Epidemiologic characteristics of 22,086 patients discharged from the Department of Orthopaedic Trauma at a military hospital between 2013 and 2022: a retrospective real-world study

Annals of Medicine
Background To analyse the epidemiological characteristics of orthopaedic trauma patients and thereby optimize healthcare resource allocation and improve treatment efficiency.Materials and Methods Relying on the hospital information system (HIS) database,
Yu Zhu, Yong Liu, Yulu Nie, Wei Yu, Zaixing Zhao, Lei Zhao, Tao Wang, Funing Zhang, Guochuan Chen, Xing Ma, Sheng Xu, Wenjie Chen, Xinde Zhang   +12 more
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Farmers’ Protests in Germany: Media Coverage and Types of Bias

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The German farmers’ protests of 2024 sparked widespread media coverage and public debate. Yet, media coverage was not always positive, reflecting the media's attention‐seeking and selective focus. Occurrences of farmers blocking media outlets reflected distrust in how their concerns were portrayed.
Felix Schlichte, Doris Läpple
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IMW4NeRF:independent multimodal watermarking for neural radiance fields

Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have been widely applied due to their powerful implicit representation capability for 3D scenes, yet their high training costs have made the copyright protection of NeRF models increasingly important.
Yujie Liu, Jia Liu, Yuwei Lu, Qiya Wang, Yan Ke   +4 more
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Guiding principles on use of force [PDF]

, 2016
This document details 18 months of intensive work on the issue of police use of force and its impact on community-police relationships and on officer safety and public safety.
Police Executive Research Forum
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