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Social Inclusion in North Sydney LGA

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2012
Social exclusion in the North Sydney local government area has increasingly become a matter for concern in the last decade. In 2005/2006 local government community service referrals indicate that there were growing numbers of people living on their own ...
Chris Taylor, Jed Donoghue
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Essential Updates 2024–2025: Surgical Strategy for Esophageal Cancer Toward a New Paradigm in the Era of Immunotherapy and Personalization

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This review summarizes key advances from 2024 to 2025 that are reshaping esophageal cancer surgery toward a strategy‐oriented, personalized paradigm through the integration of immunotherapy, population aging, and intelligent technologies. Adjuvant nivolumab after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy remains the only perioperative approach with durable benefit,
Shuichiro Oya, Koichi Yagi, Yoshifumi Baba   +2 more
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Digital Bordering of Polish Workers Registered with a D-Nummer in Norway: From Precarity to Welfare Exclusion and Work ExploitationFra prekære arbeidsforhold til velferdsekskludering og arbeidsutnyttelse: Polske arbeideres erfaringer med digitale grenser i Norge

Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift
In order to register as a resident in Norway and obtain a permanent personal identification number (fødselsnummer), EU citizens have to show proof that they have secured at least six months of future employment in Norway.
Aleksandra Czech-Havnerås, Mateus Schweyher   +1 more
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Diatom‐Inspired 1D Immobile Robots Capable of 2D Collective Mobility

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents a diatom‐inspired robotic system that explores group coordination through limited physical interactions. The researchers tune groups of Barbots, simple robotic agents that possess neither individual mobility nor explicit communication capabilities, to achieve complex and adaptive collaboration based on environmental light.
Tianyi Hu, Yunjia Zhang, Chu Qiao, Tingrui Zhang, Shuguang Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Karin Alvåsen, Helena Hansson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The implementation of safer drug consumption facilities in Scotland: a mixed methods needs assessment and feasibility study for the city of Edinburgh

Harm Reduction Journal
Background Scotland currently has amongst the highest rates of drug-related deaths in Europe, leading to increased advocacy for safer drug consumption facilities (SDCFs) to be piloted in the country.
James Nicholls, Wendy Masterton, Danilo Falzon, Andrew McAuley, Hannah Carver, Kathryn Skivington, Josh Dumbrell, Andy Perkins, Samantha Steele, Kirsten Trayner, Tessa Parkes   +10 more
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Siren songs or path to salvation? Interpreting the visions of web technology at a UK regional newspaper in crisis, 2006-11 [PDF]

, 2013
A 5-year case study of an established regional newspaper in Britain investigates journalists about their perceptions of convergence in digital technologies.
Aldridge M, Bijker W, Brannon J, Curran J, Domingo D, Hall S, Heeter C, Kincaid H, Kunelius R, Preston P, Quandt T, Singer J, Splichal S, Temple M, Thurman N, Tremayne M, Van Der Wurff R, Yin R, Zaltman G, Zaltman G   +19 more
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
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“You are helping from the heart not just from the head”: a systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis of the experiences of peer workers working with people experiencing homelessness and substance use

BMC Public Health
Background Increasingly, substance use and homelessness services have peer workers, those with lived or living experience of substance use and homelessness, who provide support to those experiencing similar challenges.
Hannah Carver, Joanna Astrid Miler, Jessica Greenhalgh, Bernie Pauly, Nicola Ring, Hazel Booth, Josh Dumbrell, Tessa Parkes   +7 more
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Teenswoordige heil, verbond en sending

Verbum et Ecclesia, 1996
Salvation and welfare in the present time, covenant and mission In the theological debate on salvation and welfare an important question that must be asked is the one concerning the relevance of the present time and world.
P. Verster
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