“It was touching”: Experiences and views of students in the June 3 flood and fire disaster relief response volunteerism in Accra, Ghana [PDF]
Evidence from Africa on the motivations and experiences of student volunteers in community disaster relief response programmes are rare. This study explores the experiences and views of the students, who volunteered at the emergency mental health relief ...
Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie +5 more
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‘This isNot Charity’: the Masculine Work of Strike Relief [PDF]
On March 14 1951, the relief committee of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ union voted to exclude women from the union’s relief depot.
Grace Millar
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Background Participatory approaches that engage affected populations are increasingly applied in humanitarian health programs in concert with emerging accountability frameworks and the rapid growth of research in these settings. Participatory initiatives
Ilja Ormel +6 more
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Geography and Onomastics: Geographical Terminology in the Oronymy of the Balearic Islands
Toponymy and, more specifically, toponymic generics constitute an important source of geographical terminology, which is a valuable object of study in both linguistics and cultural geography.
Antoni Ordinas Garau +1 more
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Limits on Relief through Constrained Exchange on Random Graphs [PDF]
Agents are represented by nodes on a random graph (e.g., small world or truncated power law). Each agent is endowed with a zero-mean random value that may be either positive or negative. All agents attempt to find relief, i.e., to reduce the magnitude of
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The Web of the Spider. Laura Barr Lougee. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: Cranbrook Institute of Science, 1964. 44 pp. $3.50. [PDF]
Excerpt: It is a relief to find such a straightforward and objective work as Lougee\u27s The Web of the Spider. Her brief but lucid descriptions of spider anatomy, silk production and web construction will induce appreciation and observation of these ...
Drew, Leslie C
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Choosing a hospital assistance ship to fight the covid-19 pandemic
OBJECTIVE: To apply the THOR 2 multi-criteria support system to select the Brazilian navy's most suitable hospital care vessel (NAsH) to support the fight against the covid-19 pandemic.
Igor Pinheiro de Araújo Costa +4 more
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Using augmented-reality and mobile three-dimensional graphics techniques in relief work on radiological disaster sites [PDF]
Many countries tightly manage and monitor various radiological sources and facilities, yet some serious radiological disasters still occurred in recent decades.
Tsai Ming-Kuan, Yau Nie-Jia
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Politiche istituzionali e piani di assistenza ai poveri. Il lavoro come forma di carità nella prima età moderna (XVII-XVIII secolo) [PDF]
As is well known, forced labour was a fixture of almost every poor relief institution that popped up throughout Europe from the late 16th century onwards.
Lorenzo Coccoli
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The following report describes the development and implementation of a small-lab automation solution for small hospitals.
Heidrich Rainer
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