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Human disturbance to nesting raptors can influence breeding success, especially during early breeding. This study examined the impact of researcher presence, a relatively low impact human disturbance, on eastern barn owls Tyto javanica javanica during monitoring of 57 nest‐boxes in oil palm plantations in Malaysia over a period of 30 months.
Shakinah Ravindran +6 more
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Facing Truths About Population Management
Populations of wildlife, and domestic animals have large sinks for surplus animals. By contrast, zoos don't. Humans in industrialized societies are socialized with companion animals, i.e. surplus (i.e., typically denied reproduction) originating from unseen breeding cores.
Marcus Clauss +48 more
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TorchRef: an open‐source PyTorch framework for crystallographic refinement
TorchRef is an open‐source PyTorch‐based crystallographic refinement framework that exposes all refinable parameters to automatic differentiation, accelerates structure factor evaluation by about two orders of magnitude on a GPU and enables novel workflows such as direct refinement against amplitude differences in time‐resolved crystallography ...
Hans-Peter Seidel +2 more
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Relationship: Orientation, politics, ethics, and the idea and practice of self‐determination
Abstract First Nations people deeply value relational modes of organising politics, governance, and social order that do not feature in European‐derived political ordering or in dominant governance and policy scholarship. While Indigenous peoples have long sought equitable and respectful relationships in the context of forced colonial engagement, the ...
Lindy Andrén +3 more
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Huge immigration raids a thing of the past [PDF]
An article in the May 13, 2013, Courier, a Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa newspaper, about how the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was no longer using the tactics of large immigration raids on employers.https://scholarworks.uni.edu ...
Reinitz, Jeff
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After the Islamic conquest of Egypt and the Levant in the mid-seventh century, the conquerors took over the existing administration and taxation systems.
Lankila, Tommi Petteri
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Rural Communities Transformed by Immigration Raids: A Community of Capitals Perspective
In 2019, communities of Central Mississippi experienced large-scale immigration raids. Past studies on immigration enforcement operations show that these types of events have significant consequences.
Thompson, Diego, Barrera, Silvina Lopez
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Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England
Abstract English local government faces a perilous position owing to insufficient funding, structural issues and capacity challenges. Fourteen years of austerity have significantly reduced council budgets, while increased demand for services—particularly adult social care—has strained resources.
David Jeffery
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