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Detection‐Dog‐Guided Camera Placement Increases Efficiency of Surveys for Long‐Tailed Weasels (Neogale frenata) 利用探测犬引导布设相机可提升长尾鼬调查效率

open access: yesWildlife Letters, EarlyView.
By comparing widespread surveys with randomly placed cameras to a protocol pairing detection dogs with cameras, we found that the detection‐dog‐guided camera survey had approximately 33 times greater detections with fewer camera nights and reduced survey costs. We recommend using detection dogs to identify areas to focus camera trapping. ABSTRACT Multi‐
Jenna B. Myers   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A formal representation of the WHO and UNICEF estimates of national immunization coverage: a computational logic approach. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
Production of official statistics frequently requires expert judgement to evaluate and reconcile data of unknown and varying quality from multiple and potentially conflicting sources.
Anthony Burton   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Value of Controlling Wilding Conifers in New Zealand

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Exotic, invasive conifer tree species, known as ‘wilding conifers’, pose a significant threat to natural ecosystems and are costly to manage, creating a need to identify community preferences in order to inform and balance public investment in their control.
Maksym Polyakov   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Okruchy. O książkach i strawie

open access: yesEr(r)go, 2002
Liliana Barakonska Of Books and Foods   Summary The article is an attempt to analyse the functioning of the consumption metaphor in the context of Robert Bur­ton's work The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) with special attention paid to the link between the ...
Liliana Barakońska
doaj  

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Okruchy. O książkach i strawie

open access: yesEr(r)go, 2009
Liliana Barakonska Of Books and Foods   Summary The article is an attempt to analyse the functioning of the consumption metaphor in the context of Robert Bur­ton's work The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) with special attention paid to the link between ...
Liliana Barakońska
doaj  

Adversarialism in the Family Courts in Child Arrangements Cases in England and Wales

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Most of the discussion of adversarialism has taken place in the context of criminal justice and it is often assumed that family courts are not adversarial, particularly in child arrangements cases where the stated focus is the future welfare of children.
Mandy Burton, Rosemary Hunter
wiley   +1 more source

School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
wiley   +1 more source

A Tribunal Only in Name: Anarchic Sensibilities at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, 1976

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
wiley   +1 more source

STRATIFIED ADAPTATION: Infrastructure, Elevation, and Cascading Floods in the Urban Mekong Delta

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Flood‐prone cities in the global South are increasingly the target of infrastructure projects aimed at building climate ‘resilience’. At the same time, residents of these cities take adaptation to flooding into their own hands. In this article we examine the interrelationship between household‐scale and urban‐scale flood mitigation projects in
Lizzie Yarina   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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