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Troubling Contexts: Toward a Generative Theory of Rurality as Education Research

Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2009
Marsden (2006) suggests that rurality as a signifier is transformative, capable of changing behaviour and affecting the motivation of teachers, community workers, and learners.
Robert J Balfour, Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane   +2 more
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Chronic health conditions and health care affordability issues among U.S. rural and urban adults

Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity
Purpose Chronic health conditions and rurality are associated with each other and with higher risks of medical debt. Less is known about the intersection of chronic conditions and health care affordability issues as they relate to rurality. The objective
Ingrid Jacobson, Alexis Swendener, Hannah MacDougall, Carrie Henning-Smith   +3 more
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Conclusion [Disability and Rurality: Identity, Gender and Belonging]

, 2017
In this conclusion we want to focus on the new learning and knowledge that we feel have emerged from the contributors, share our reflections on these and consider some of their implications for belonging, identity and gender.
Soldatic, Karen (R18468), Johnson, Kelley   +1 more
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The liability of rurality and new venture viability [PDF]

, 2019
Highlights • This paper develops the «liability of rurality» as a new concept. • I integrate the liability of rurality with the liabilities of newness and smallness.
Clausen, Tommy Høyvarde
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MOF‐Derived Cu‐TiO2/Alginate Micromotors for Buoyancy‐Regulated 3D Motion

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In this work, cyanobacteria‐inspired sodium alginate (SA)/Cu‐TiO2/Fe3O4 hydrogel micromotors generate and encapsulate O2 microvesicles upon light irradiation, enabling buoyancy‐mediated Z‐axis upward migration and surface enrichment at the light‐exposed water‐air surface.
Wei Zou, Qing Wu, Jiawei Lin, Kunchen Li, Yulong Ying, Josep Puigmartí‐Luis, Salvador Pané, Sheng Wang   +7 more
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Primary care physicians working in rural areas provide a broader scope of practice: a cross-sectional study

BMC Primary Care
Background Scope of practice (SoP) is an important factor for primary care physicians (PCPs). One of the strong determinants of SoP is rurality. Although Japan has several rural areas, the SoP in rural areas and the effect of rurality on SoP have not ...
Makoto Kaneko, Tomoya Higuchi, Ryuichi Ohta   +2 more
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Les écolieux, nouveaux acteurs des ruralités : enclave de classe ou points d’ancrage pour le renouveau des campagnes ?

L'Espace Politique
A new alternative geography of the countryside is emerging through the departures of city dwellers in search of nature and aspiring to live in the territory differently.
Ewa Chuecos
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Beyond the agricultural sector in Latin America: territorial approaches for rural development [PDF]

A recent transition in the field of agrarian economics theory for rural development is the move from a narrow agricultural sector approach, to one which adopts broader territorial vision.
Pisani, Elena
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TECTB Variants Reveal Tectorial Membrane Vulnerability in Dominant Non‐Syndromic Hearing Loss

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
TECTB is a non‐collagenous protein of the tectorial membrane – an extracellular matrix of the cochlea. This study identifies dominant missense variants in TECTB linked to human hereditary deafness in two unrelated families. Genetically engineered mice homozygous for one of the variants are profoundly deaf, whereas heterozygous mice have normal hearing ...
Evan B. Hale, Barbara Vona, Richard J. Goodyear, Richard T. Osgood, Jun Shen, Sami S. Amr, Karen Mojica, Michaela A. H. Hofrichter, Jörg Schröder, Sophie Flandin, Paul Gratias, Ricardo Vera‐Monroy, Katherine Callahan, Kerry L. Gudlewski, Rolen Quadros, Masato Ohtsuka, JoAnn McGee, Edward J. Walsh, Cynthia C. Morton, Thomas Haaf, Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, James E. Saunders, Guy P. Richardson, Artur A. Indzhykulian   +23 more
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Representações sociais, instituições e conflitos na gestão de águas em territórios rurais Social representations, institutions, and conflicts in water management in rural territories

Sociologias, 2006
Temas relativos à governança de interesses sociais e de recursos ambientais fixados em territórios rurais têm recebido especial destaque na literatura sociológica recente.
Rodrigo Constante Martins
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