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The Art of Reception: Field Visits as Microcosms for Development Interventions of Non‐Governmental Organisations in Uganda

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Field visits are common phenomena with non‐governmental organisations in Uganda. During these visits, Ugandan national staff guide visitors on series of meetings and interactions in the field. Following an actor‐oriented approach and drawing on ethnographic data on 14 field visits, this paper understands the field visit as a microcosm for the ...
Caspar Edward Swinkels
wiley   +1 more source

Globalizing Comparative Public Administration With Integrative Contextualization: State Autonomy in the Developmental Path of Hong Kong and Singapore

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
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Developing a Pediatric Pain Curriculum for Pediatric Anesthesia Fellows in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Delphi Study

Pediatric Anesthesia, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Comprehensive pain management in children requires a specialized skillset, with a limited number of clinicians possessing the level of expertise required to successfully navigate the complexities of holistic care. The emergence of pediatric anesthesia fellowship programs in sub‐Saharan Africa presents an opportunity to embed a ...
Anisa Bhettay, Rebecca Gray, Romy Parker, Nikki Allorto, Abigail Kusi Amponsah, Brian Anderson, Lillian Baranzila, Charles Carapinha, Susan Carolus, Lionel Green‐Thompson, Onica Higgins, Sonya Kolman, O' Brien Kyololo, Gillian Lamacraft, Helen Laycock, Samuel Matula, Kutlo Mutlhobogwa, Shireen Modack, Israa Modack, Timothy Mwiti, Raymond Ndikontar, Kazeem Oshikoya, Asma Salloo, Jenny Thomas, Salome Maswime   +24 more
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Reflection of national mythology in Chuvash poetry

Этническая культура
The interaction of myth and literature is an urgent literary problem. Mythological themes, plots, motifs, and images are used and reinterpreted in Chuvash literature throughout its history.
Vera V. Nikiforova
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Timing in orthopaedic surgery – Rethinking traditional myths with a critical perspective

Injury
Purpose Standard operating procedures aim to achieve a standardized and assumedly high-quality therapy. However, in orthopaedic surgery, the aspect of temporal urgency is often based on surgical tradition and experience. At a time of evidence-based medicine, it is necessary to question these temporal guidelines.
Reinhard, Jan, Schindler, Melanie, Straub, Josina, Baertl, Susanne, Szymski, Dominik, Walter, Nike, Lang, Siegmund, Alt, Volker, Rupp, Markus   +8 more
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Et in Arcadia fracta ego. Postmodern entopia of Tom Stoppard [PDF]

, 2014
The paper presents a complex analysis of “Arcadia” by Tom Stoppard as an example of the postmodern artistic strategy that reinterprets traditional myth and themes within the context of dynamical changes in the cultural discourse of the last few decades ...
Bartosiak, Mariusz
core  

Why do we burn? Examining arguments underpinning the use of prescribed burning to manage wildfire risk

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Managing wildfire risk requires consideration of complex and uncertain scientific evidence as well as trade‐offs between different values and goals. Conflicting perspectives on what values and goals are most important, what ought to be done and what trade‐offs are acceptable complicate those decisions.
Pele J. Cannon, Sarah Clement
wiley   +1 more source

The Myth of the Well-Known ‘Solution’ of Push-Down Academics [PDF]

, 2018
This article is an attempt to examine the myth of push-down academics and to refute it in light of the research. The historical background information on how this myth was born was provided.
Keskin, Burhanettin
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The visible and invisible drivers of biocultural loss in the Amazon

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The Amazon is rapidly approaching an ecological tipping point driven by deforestation, forest degradation and global climate change. These are visible issues that receive increasing political and public attention. However, the accelerating biocultural loss in the Amazon, including the extinction of Indigenous languages, the disruption of ...
Torsten Krause, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Jesica López, Karolin Obert, Juan A. Samper, Ana Maria Vargas   +5 more
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Epistemic opacity in Antarctic science: Unknowing the last frontier

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Antarctica is facing intensifying pressures from climate change, industrial fishing, tourism and renewed geopolitical competition, even as scientific activity on the continent reaches unprecedented levels. We argue that this proliferation of research often fails to deliver the integrated, policy‐relevant knowledge needed for precautionary ...
Virginia Morandini, Álvaro Soutullo
wiley   +1 more source