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Counter‐factual simulation highlights requirements for additional management to avert extinction of a relict Tītī/Sooty Shearwater population

Ibis, EarlyView.
Seabirds play key ecological roles but face increasing threats worldwide. Among them, Tītī (Sooty Shearwater) Ardenna grisea are among the most abundant and culturally significant species in the Southern Hemisphere but are also threatened. Kapiti Island, Aotearoa (New Zealand), holds a Tītī colony which, despite eradication of non‐native mammalian ...
Etienne Ossona De Mendez, Brendon J. Dunphy, Kristal E. Cain, Johannes Chambon, Reg Cotter, Elisabeth Daigle, Graeme A. Taylor, Johannes H. Fischer   +7 more
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HR Practitioners' Role in Leadership Development and Their Use of Tailoring Strategies

International Journal of Training and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human resource development increasingly emphasizes strategic training and development activities to support the growth of leaders and their leadership skills. This underscores the growing importance of human resource (HR) practitioners, who are often responsible for overseeing leadership development (LD).
Manuela Schmidt, Sofia Kjellström, Gunilla Avby   +2 more
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Making meaningful comparisons between road and rail – substituting average energy consumption data for rail with empirical analysis

, 2015
Within the transport sector, modal shift towards more efficient and less polluting modes could be a key policy goal to help meet targets to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions.
Preston, Jonathan, Pritchard, James, Armstrong, John   +2 more
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Explaining Differentiated Policy Implementation of EU Animal Welfare Regulations

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Farm animal welfare has emerged as a growing policy subsystem within the European Union's (EU) Common Agricultural Policy. However, despite a harmonized EU framework, member states differ substantially in how they implement EU directives on farm animal welfare.
Ilana Schröder, Johanna Kuenzler, Colette Vogeler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving regional passenger rail services [PDF]

, 2014
This report reviews the options available for upgrading existing passenger train services, drawing from local and international case studies to inform the conclusions.

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The Experience of Care in People With Palliative Needs and Their Families: A Qualitative Metasynthesis

Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To synthesise and reinterpret qualitative evidence on how people with palliative care needs and their family caregivers experience the care process. Background Palliative care aims to provide holistic, person‐ and family‐centred care.
Ana Gil Méndez, Caterina Checa Jiménez, Ingrid Bullich Marín, Laura Navarrete Reyes, Carolina Watson Badia, Nina Granel Gimenez, Lídia Ribera Barberan, Mireia Subirana Casacuberta, Juan M. Leyva‐Moral   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

High speed rail: benefits that add up [PDF]

, 2012
This report argues that Australian could gain $48 billion of benefits from adopting high speed rail. High speed rail (“HSR”) now exists on every continent except for Australia and Antarctica.
Naomi Edwards
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Keep on Keepin’ on Down Under: Administrative Heritage and the Strategic Realignment of Multinational Enterprises in Australia During Deglobalization, 1914–79

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We analyse the behaviour of multinational enterprises (MNEs) within a host nation – Australia – during deglobalization (1914–79). Deglobalization is often portrayed as a drastic event to which MNEs respond swiftly, probably through withdrawal from host countries.
Pierre Van der Eng, André Sammartino, Simon Ville, David Merrett, Monica Keneley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding urban rail travel for improved patronage forecasting [PDF]

, 2013
Improved forecasting of urban rail patronage is essential for effective policy development and efficient planning for new rail infrastructure. Past modelling and forecasting of urban rail patronage has been based on legacy modelling approaches and often ...
Clarris, Heidi, Webb, Melissa, Howells, Louise, Molloy, Andrew, Zheng, Zuduo, Sloan, Keith, Wijeweera, Albert, Washington, Simon, Charles, Michael, Primerano, Frank, Liu, Yulin, Holyoak, Nicholas, Hyland, Paul, To, Hong   +13 more
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Home sweet harm: Confinement and tranquilidad in post‐asylum Peru

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how Peru's Community Mental Health (CMH) model contributes to the exclusion and home confinement of mentally ill individuals. Based on the experience of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia and her mother, I show how CMH's emphasis on community‐based care often fails in practice, as neighbors respond to people with mental
Julio Villa‐Palomino
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