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A children's champion for Scotland
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2002 Scottish children look likely to get their own Children’s and Young People's Commissioner in the near future. After many years campaigning, organisations working with children and young people now see light at the end of the proverbial tunnel with the ...
Susan Elsley
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Résurgences nationalistes et divergences politiques : quel avenir pour l’Union britannique ?
Études Écossaises, 2011 Ten years after the 1997 Scottish and Welsh referenda, Plaid Cymru and the SNP both became parties of government in their respective nations. The vast majority of the Welsh and Scottish populations today are in favour of the extension of powers of the ...
Fiona Simpkins
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Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2017 This article examines policy divergence between the main pro-independence parties in Scotland (the Scottish National Party, the Scottish Greens, and two socialist parties/alliances: RISE and Solidarity) in the context of the 2016 Scottish Parliament ...
Nathalie Duclos
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This article introduces a soft wearable eyelid sling device incorporating a hydraulic soft artificial muscle (SAM) for achieving complete closure of an eyelid. The SAM is driven by a cam mechanism that provides a displacement profile closely matched with those of a healthy eyelid.
Patrick Pruscino +7 more
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Revue LISAThe Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) incorporated the fundamental rights and freedoms set out in the European Convention of Human Rights into domestic law across the UK, while preserving the principle of the sovereignty of the British Parliament. In Scotland,
Annie Thiec
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Twenty Years of Devolution in Scotland: the End of a British Party System?
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019 The geographical divides that characterised the outcome of the June 2016 European referendum, with a Remain majority in Scotland and Northern Ireland and a Leave majority in England and in Wales, are symptomatic of the increasingly divergent electoral ...
Fiona Simpkins
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Wearable‐derived diurnal alignment between physical activity and device temperature, decomposed into 24 h coupling strength (M24), phase deviation (D24), and 12 h harmonic magnitude (M12), is examined in approximately 90,000 UK Biobank participants.
Han Chen +6 more
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Territorialité politique, nationalisme et traversées constitutionnelles en Écosse
Études Écossaises, 2016 This paper intends to explore the nature of the nationalist ideology promoted by the SNP in light of the concept of territoriality. Indeed, the process of legislative devolution, which is representative of a crossing of the Anglo-Scottish border at ...
Arnaud Fiasson
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Children experiencing parental imprisonment are known to be among the most overlooked in our community. They often experience multiple and compounding disadvantages, with long‐term consequences, but receive no specialised assistance. Knowledge about these children and their families is lacking in Australia and is required to inform policy ...
Catherine Flynn +6 more
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Politeja, 2014 Together or Separately? Scottish Independence Tendencies In 1707, the Act of Union formally united Scotland with England as Great Britain. Scotland retained its own legal system, churches and universities but all real political power moved to London ...
Joanna Aleksandra Radowicz
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