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Immigration detention centers as torturing environments: Ethical reckonings, radical refusals, and implications for a psychology of resistance

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inside the proxy relationship: alignment between Iran and the Mahdi Army, 2003–2008

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences
The 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq brought increased international attention to regional dynamics in the Middle East. A key challenge for the U.S. was Iran’s support for regional proxy militias.
Margaret McWeeney, Kevin Harrington
doaj   +1 more source

The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Automatic classification of criminal activities for security surveillance by keyframes detection and advanced inception techniques

open access: yesScientific Reports
The exponential growth of video surveillance systems in public and private spaces has heightened the demand for effective and automated abnormal behavior detection mechanisms.
Shunli Qiao, Honglin Liu
doaj   +1 more source

Synthetic Particulate Subunit Vaccines Co‐Delivering Multiple Antigens Induce Protective Immunity Against Melioidosis

open access: yesAdvanced NanoBiomed Research, EarlyView.
Engineered endotoxin‐free Escherichia coli were used to assemble poly(3‐hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) biopolymer particles displaying multiple conserved Burkholderia pseudomallei antigens via PhaC‐mediated surface presentation. Following formulation with poly(I:C), the particulate vaccines induced antigen‐specific humoral and cellular immune responses ...
Md. Tanvir Kabir   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who is to teach “these guys” to “shoot less?” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Special Edition issue - Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Sub-Saharan AfricaWhile conducting research on counter-terrorism (CT) systems of the Central and Eastern European Member States of the European Union, a unique perspective on the European ...
Rekawek, Kacper
core   +1 more source

From Board Governance to SDGs Integration: ESG Performance and Controversies in the MENA Region

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how board characteristics influence firms' integration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on the mediating role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and the moderating effect of ESG controversies.
Waleed M. Alahdal   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Terrorism and the state : intra-state dynamics and the response to non-state terrorism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Although there has been a wealth of academic literature which has examined counter-terrorism, both in the general sense and in case study focused approaches, there has seldom been an engagement in terrorism studies literature on the nature of the state ...
McConaghy, Kieran
core   +1 more source

DT-aided resource allocation via generative adversarial imitation learning in complex cloud-edge-end scenarios

open access: yesScientific Reports
Traditional DRL-based resource allocation for cloud-edge-end computing primarily depends on known state parameters and real-time feedback rewards when making decisions. The traditional model, which heavily relies on prior knowledge and real-time feedback
Xiaoqi Zhang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Deconstructing Buddhist Extremism: Lessons from Sri Lanka

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This article argues that it is not Buddhism, per se, but rather Buddhist extremism, that is responsible for violence against relevant out-groups. Moreover, it suggests that the causes of Buddhist extremism, rather than being determined solely by textual ...
Kumar Ramakrishna
doaj   +1 more source

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