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Considering What Counts: Mass Shooting Math
Numeracy, 2023 News reports often cite statistics about the number of mass shootings. It is important to appreciate the definitions used when counting mass shootings. Different definitions produce very different statistical outcomes.
Joel Best
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In the Azores, looking for the regions of knowing [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2016 This multi-voice script highlights the process of five years of research with coastal fishing communities in the Azores islands of Portugal. Initially, we used photo elicitation and focus groups to invite people to speak about the sea and all the deep ...
Alison Laurie Neilson +5 more
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The Social Construction of Water Scarcity: an Exploration Study along the "Bharathapuzha" in Kerala
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2018 Water scarcity is a very critical issue in the context of sustainability and global environmental change. However, the notion of scarcity also has its local roots that are constructed by diverse actors with specific values, knowledge and interests.
Sunil D. Santha, Devisha Sasidevan
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International Journal of Health Professions, 2016 The academization of health professions is a complex process, whose progress is denoted by the parallelism of different processes. These include for example the setup of scientific disciplines as well as the development of higher education concepts ...
Ursula Walkenhorst
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Espace populations sociétés, 2017 There seem to be two types of fire risk in Corsica. The first would be a serious risk, the major threat to the "Mediterranean forest," caused mostly by the negligence of the local population, especially breeders.
Pauline Vilain-Carlotti
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Health Literacy, Self‐Efficacy and Knowledge of Sickle Cell Disease Among Caregivers
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hereditary blood disorder in which abnormal haemoglobin leads to severe anaemia, painful crises and organ failure. Caregivers’ health literacy (HL) – their ability to assess, understand and apply information, and interact with healthcare professionals – is crucial for managing children with SCD, yet ...
Melanie Bruinooge +6 more
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L'Ordinaire des Amériques, 2015 This paper deals with the social process through which flooding in Buenos Aires is understood as a question of public policy. By focusing on institutional vulnerabilities, it will show how public policies contribute to risk perception, and how decisions ...
María Gabriela Merlinsky +1 more
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The social construction of sexual violence for female politicians
Jurnal Sosiologi Dialektika, 2021 The phenomenon of sexual violence is illustrated as the iceberg phenomenon. Every year the number of cases of sexual violence increases. Among the victims of sexual violence, women are the most common ones.
Tri Vena Putri, Bagong Suyanto
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Early Impact of Childhood Opportunity on Neurocognitive Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Neurocognitive impairment is a well‐recognized complication of sickle cell disease (SCD) that begins early in childhood and persists across development. While cerebrovascular injury contributes substantially to risk, neurocognitive deficits are also observed in children without overt or silent cerebral infarctions, suggesting ...
Julia E. LaMotte +5 more
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Social Confrontation with Menstruation: A Feminist Ethnography of Menstrual Experience among Female Instagram Users [PDF]
جامعه شناسی کاربردیIntroductionPatriarchy has systematically marginalized many issues related to women, including their biological experiences, such as menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth, by relegating them to personal rather than social matters.
Rana Mohammad Taghinejad Esfahani +3 more
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