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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International literature has consistently demonstrated that children in the foster care system (FCS) exhibit poorer academic outcomes: lower academic achievement, higher rates of school absenteeism and truancy, lower high school graduation rates and reduced postsecondary educational attainment.
Antonieta Candia‐Fonseca +2 more
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Residencias-en-viaje: dimensiones diaspóricas en Rastafari [PDF]
Aposta, 2013 En el presente trabajo se discute la centralidad de la Polis como horizonte hermenéutico de la modernidad. Abrigando en su seno distintas formas de organización y culturas diversas, la polis contemporánea asiste a su fragmentación constante, se hace ...
Diego Larrique Porley
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Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization
Ecography, EarlyView.In ecosystems, species interact in various ways with other species, and with their local environment. In addition, ecosystems are coupled in space by diverse types of flows. From these links connecting different ecological entities can emerge circular pathways of indirect effects: feedback loops.
Benoît Pichon +4 more
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Crash! Slump! Bust! Reporting the economic crisis (guest blog) #Polis12 [PDF]
, 2012 “How many of you have heard of a CDS?” A smattering of hands shot up into the air when Bloomberg News’ Economics Editor Linda Yueh asked who knew what a credit default swap was at the POLIS International Journalism Conference .
O'Brien, Wanda
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Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.Orius laevigatus engages in unidirectional intraguild predation on Transeius montdorensis. Despite this, both predators coexisted and suppressed the shared thrips prey. Aphids, a non‐shared prey, were effectively controlled by O. laevigatus even when its population was limited due to intraguild predation. T.
Angelos Mouratidis +3 more
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"China's Energy Dilemma" [PDF]
PRC's energy dependence is growing and has become a major concern for both economic and national security policymakers in that country. The ambitious goal of modernization of the economy along the lines of the other newly industrialized economies(NIEs ...
Haider A Khan
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Women and the media: what do they want? A special Polis report [PDF]
, 2008 There are more women than ever before in the media, so has journalism about women changed? Polis gathered a group of 50 women journalists and academics for a debate led by Channel 4 News presenter Samira Ahmed.
Dent, Tamsyn
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The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract From a sample of the most prominent Greek city‐states, data involving a total of 999 hoards and 160,007 coins from 550 to 300 BC were collected to discern the relative magnitudes, consistency of issue, and distribution of Classical Greek coinages.
Zane Mullins
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Nota sobre la naturaleza “política" de “lo económico" para Aristóteles [PDF]
, 2013 Esta nota intenta la solución del conflicto entre el carácter supuestamente pre-moral de la oikonomikê aristotélica por pertenecer a la oikia, y el carácter claramente moral que surge de la lectura de los textos aristotélicos pertinentes.
Bertelloni, Francisco, Crespo, Ricardo
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Visual Cues Can Alter the Behavioural Responses of Dragonfly Larvae to Chemical Alarm Cues
Ethology, EarlyView.Using a controlled experimental approach, we examined how chemical and visual cues influence antipredator behaviour in Aeshna cyanea larvae and tested whether risk‐related information can be socially transmitted among nearby conspecifics. Our results show that dragonfly larvae do not copy the antipredator responses of others, but visual cues alter how ...
Zoltán Tóth +3 more
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