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‘Reservoir dogs’: The emerging zoonotic risk associated with European dog imports to the UK

Veterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The movement of dogs from continental Europe to the UK poses a growing public health threat due to the associated risk of disease incursions. Current legislation is insufficient to address the risks and pre‐import control measures are focused only on rabies virus and the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. Methods We conducted
Poppy Simonson, Tapan Bhattacharyya, Michael A. Miles   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The positioning of women nurses as 'risky' in United Kingdom suicide prevention policy documents: a critical policy analysis. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Causer H, Conolly A, Howard-Hunt B, Anetekhai C, Black CA, Scott E, Riley R.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Education and episcopacy : the universities of Scotland in the fifteenth century

, 2011
Educational provision in Scotland was revolutionised in the fifteenth century through the foundation of three universities, or studia generale, at St Andrews, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
Woodman, Isla
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Scale‐aware impact modelling for atmospheric releases of radioactive material

Weather, EarlyView.
Since the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011, the UK has developed the process of Joint Agency Modelling (JAM), which provides advice to government in case of atmospheric releases of radioactive material. The timely deployment of JAM requires a prior estimate of the extent to which impacts could reach. Thus, to develop a fast pre‐calculator
Isaac Jadav, Sarah Millington, Gemma Halloran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prestige and punishment: Status symbols and the danger of white elephants. [PDF]

Coop Confl
Beaumont P, Paes LO, Maglia C.
europepmc   +1 more source

How to stay wild in a highly domesticated landscape? Spatiotemporal behaviour of wolves in Germany

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Wild animals can adapt to the increasing presence of humans by either becoming accustomed to it or by avoiding humans by spatiotemporal separation. The return of the wolf to the German lowlands raised the opportunity to study wolf behaviour in one of the most densely populated and fragmented countries in Europe, in an area where topography offers no ...
Ilka Reinhardt, Ugo Arbieu, Philipp Mendgen, Barbara Zimmermann, Anne Berger, Gesa Kluth, Thomas Mueller   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Bias-and-Expertise Model: A Bayesian Network Model of Political Source Characteristics. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Young DJ, de-Wit LH.
europepmc   +1 more source

Habitat selection of moose in Sweden in managed boreal forests with Pinus contorta and P. sylvestris

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Human land use can take advantage of using exotic species to increase financial benefits. However, the use of exotic tree species might affect ecosystem functioning, potentially including the habitat use and movement behaviour of animals, modifying their ecological impact, and interactions with human land use.
Maria Bolund, Fredrik Stenbacka, Fredrik Widemo, John P. Ball, Göran Ericsson, Wiebke Neumann   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explaining Societal Shifts in Victim Blaming and Perpetrator Culpability for Sexual Violence: Evidence From the #MeToo Era. [PDF]

Sex Roles
Abrams Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Changing practices, not just rules: Rethinking the institutionalisation of deliberative engagement

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract When Victoria introduced legislation requiring all 79 councils to adopt deliberative engagement, 92% continued practices the legislation had just removed. This paradox reveals a fundamental challenge in embedding democratic innovations within existing systems of government: legislation signals commitment but cannot disrupt entrenched ...
Emanuela Savini
wiley   +1 more source