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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Development of cultural identity is understood to be central to well‐being; however, it is not always prioritised for children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC). This paper examines current policy and practice designed to support the cultural identity and connection of non‐Indigenous culturally and linguistically diverse children (CALD) in OOHC, who ...
Rebekah Grace +8 more
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Journal of Applied Polymer Science, EarlyView.Biopolymer coating synthesized with PLA and TiO2 successfully shows a very good barrier property against water on paper. It is supported by SEM that the coating has a good surface appearance. ABSTRACT Polymer wastes are increasingly threatening the environment.
Serat Kotan, Doğan Tutak
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The apparent contrariety [PDF]
Diacronia, 2018 There are societies in which individual and social mentalities are deeply imbued with religion, which dominates as a philosophy of life, and which guides its followers from the most insignificant to the most important thoughts and acts.
Francisc Gafton
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The experience of the sacred through places of ritual in architecture
Anuari d’Arquitectura i Societat, 2021 The social and spatial structures, the code as well as the languages recognized and created by the masters of the past are no longer adequate in our present time. Belonging to these structures today is no longer associated with the community but with the
Salvatore Rugino
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Racing to retirement : understanding greyhounds' experiences of becoming pets : a dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Social Anthropology at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2017 This thesis is a multispecies ethnographic investigation of the transition of retired racing greyhounds to domestic pets. The key aim of this research was to understand the greyhounds’ experiences of this transition.
Paap, Hannah
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Early synapsids neurosensory diversity revealed by CT and synchrotron scanning
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Non‐mammaliaform synapsids (NMS) represent the closest relatives of today's mammals among the early amniotes. Exploring their brain and nervous system is key to understanding how mammals evolved. Here, using CT and Synchrotron scanning, we document for the first time three extreme cases of neurosensory and behavioral adaptations that probe ...
J. Benoit +6 more
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Patterns in the modification of animal and human bones in Iron Age Wessex: revisiting the excarnation debate [PDF]
, 2008 Social practices concerning the treatment of human and animal remains in the Iron Age have long been a focus of debate in archaeological literature. The absence of evidence of a formal burial rite and the regular retrieval of human remains from ‘special’
Madgwick, Richard
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Culturally Imbued Trees: Physical and Metaphysical Connections
Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian Aboriginal song‐lines and Dreaming tracks follow the movement and interactions of ancestral beings and are marked by physical features associated with those ancestral beings at culturally significant places, often termed ‘sacred sites’.
Ken Mulvaney, David Cooper
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To the Question of the So Called Sauromatic Mirror from the Oguz Kurgan
Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2020 The article continues the discussion about the object, which was discovered in the Oguz kurgan and is referred to as the sauromatian “mirror” in the literature. A round disk (with a flat side handle) shows a corrugation on its two sides.
Tatiana M. Kuznetsova
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Geometric measures of redundance and irrelevance tradeoff exponent to choose suitable delay times for continuous systems [PDF]
arXiv, 2003 Using the concept of the geometric measures of redundance and irrelevance tradeoff exponent (RITE)}, we present a new method to determine suitable delay times for continuous systems. After applying the RITE algorithm to both simulation and experimental observations, we find the results obtained are close to those obtained from the criterion of the ...
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