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Enabling effective urban green space stewardship through planning: A qualitative comparative analysis in Southwest England

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Amid increasing urbanisation and biodiversity decline, ‘effective stewardship’ of urban green space (UGS) is a complex but critical nature‐based solution for long‐term environmental, social and economic gain. Combining stewardship and sense‐of‐place frameworks with European nature‐based solutions guidance, we investigate which social and ...
Fay Kahane   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Presents a demographic snapshot of the unauthorized immigrant population, including growth rates, regions of origin and settlement, family structure, portions of schoolchildren and the labor force, education, income level, and health insurance ...
D'Vera Cohn, Jeffrey S. Passel
core  

Time outdoors and the prevention of myopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Recent epidemiological evidence suggests that children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to be, or to become myopic, irrespective of how much near work they do, or whether their parents are myopic.
Ashby, Regan S.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Salivation in healthy schoolchildren

open access: yesInternational Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 2004
To obtain reference data on the unstimulated salivary flow rate in healthy 6-11-year-old boys and girls, for use in the treatment of drooling in mentally and physically handicapped children.Under standard conditions unstimulated saliva was collected from 62 healthy children using the swab method.
Rotteveel, L.J.C.   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

One questionnaire—Two points in time: Has plant species knowledge of laypeople changed over a period of 20 years?

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Concern has been raised that in recent decades knowledge of plant species has severely declined in western countries. However, in the absence of regularly repeated and standardized surveys, no reliable statement can be made as to whether plant species knowledge has actually declined in recent decades.
Petra Lindemann‐Matthies   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emancipatory Potential of Naming: A Study on Church Employees' Personal Stories of Negative Experiences

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
To address interactionally troublesome exchanges (e.g., bullying, discrimination, or harassment) in the workplace, giving a name to negative personal experiences is crucial. Drawing on discussions of hermeneutical injustice, we explore the emancipatory potential of naming in post‐hoc tellings of these experiences, with particular attention to ...
Minna Leinonen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Past Food Avoidance Due to Allergic Symptoms on the Growth of Children at School Age

open access: yesAllergology International, 2010
Background: The influence of food avoidance due to allergic symptoms in infancy on the growth of children at school age has not been well evaluated. Methods: To determine the growth of schoolchildren who avoided eggs, milk, or wheat due to immediate ...
Kumiko Mukaida   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan’s 2008 Spring Agricultural Season: A Report Based on Surveys in Two Rural Districts in Uzbekistan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Human Rights Defenders in Uzbekistan   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Behavior Change Projects in Zoological Collections: Application of the Behavior Change Wheel

open access: yesZoo Biology, EarlyView.
Projects identified from zoo websites and their initial categorization. ABSTRACT Human behavior change is needed to stop the triple planetary crisis. Zoos reach millions of people every year and there is evidence available that people do change their behavior because of zoo led interventions.
Isabel Brinkley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thyroid volumes in US and Bangladeshi schoolchildren: comparison with European schoolchildren [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Endocrinology, 1999
OBJECTIVE: The World Health Organization (WHO) recently adopted thyroid volume ultrasonography results from European schoolchildren as the international reference for assessing iodine deficiency disorders. Our objective was to describe thyroid volumes measured by ultrasonography in US and Bangladeshi schoolchildren and compare these with European ...
F, Xu   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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