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The diversity of data needed to drive design

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2017
The developers of the Refugee Housing Unit know every aspect and component of their design but can never know what it is like to wake up in one of them every day.
Märta Terne   +2 more
doaj  

Motivation til studiegennemførsel: Er coaching svaret?

open access: yesCoaching Psykologi: The Danish Journal of Coaching Psychology, 2015
This article describes how coaching can be utilized as a tool for development of necessary study competenciesand how students can obtain self-esteem, motivation and joy of studying. Thus, the students’ capability to beretained in their field of study and
Liselotte Paaske Nielsen   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stochastic Locomotion Emerging From Body–Environment Interactions in a Mexican Jumping Bean–Inspired Robot

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Inspired by the Mexican jumping bean, this study presents a centimeter‐scale, electronics‐free robot that merges principles from both the animal and plant kingdoms. A thermo‐responsive actuator mimicking larval motion, enclosed within a uniquely shaped plant‐seed‐inspired shell, generates jumping, rolling, flipping, sliding, and climbing through ...
Ragesh Chellattoan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Informal cadastres as enabling tools for disaster risk management

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Geography, 2022
Disaster Risk Management requires up-to-date land information availed through the cadastre.  Informal settlements are often located in disaster prone areas. Having up to date land information about these informal settlements is one step towards disaster
Edward KURWAKUMIRE   +2 more
doaj  

Anti-epidemic strategy of traditional Chinese medicine in makeshift COVID-19 hospital of National Exhibition and Convention Center

open access: yes陆军军医大学学报, 2023
Objective To explore characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in treating patients with COVID-19, which are variants of Omicron, from the first branch of the makeshift hospital in National Exhibition and Convention Center, and provide anti ...
WANG Yong   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Success of coastal sage scrub restoration is influenced by local adaptations of shrub species

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Restoring plant communities is increasingly challenging with climate change. While practitioners have traditionally used local seed sources, many are recommending assisted migration, possibly from more extreme environments such as inland rather than coastal environments, for restoration.
Moises R. Perea‐Vega   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health and Welfare Benefits of Computerized Cognitive Enrichment in California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) at the US Navy Marine Mammal Program

open access: yesAnimals
Cognitive enrichment is becoming more prevalent in professional marine mammal facilities. Research with dolphins has suggested that such enrichment provides more welfare benefits than enrichment that does not incorporate cognitive challenge.
Kelley Winship   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Dublin III Regulation determines which EU Member State is responsible for examining asylum claims, but its implementation carries significant consequences for those subjected to it. This study examines how Dublin III, as implemented in the Netherlands, affects asylum seekers' psychosocial wellbeing using Silove′s Adaptation and Development
Imen El Amouri
wiley   +1 more source

When Is Temporary Threshold Shift Injurious to Marine Mammals?

open access: yesJournal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021
Evidence for synaptopathy, the acute loss of afferent auditory nerve terminals, and degeneration of spiral ganglion cells associated with temporary threshold shift (TTS) in traditional laboratory animal models (e.g., mice, guinea pigs) has brought into ...
Dorian S. Houser
doaj   +1 more source

B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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