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Turning points in climate change adaptation

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2015
Concerned decision makers increasingly pose questions as to whether current management practices are able to cope with climate change and increased climate variability.
Saskia Elisabeth. Werners   +7 more
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«Alt er jo egeninnsats» – Kvinners vendepunkter bort fra kriminalitet

open access: yesNordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab, 2021
Research has emphasised the importance of turning points in desistance from crime. The current study investigates turning points in women’s desistance. Turning points from offending were explored through life story interviews with 20 female ex-offenders.
Katharina Gjeruldsen, Egil Jensen
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Autobiographical turning points: Remembering and forgetting

open access: yesLiterator, 2015
The autobiographical process involves not just reporting on past events, reconstructing one’s life history, but replaying events in different voices and modes.
Michael Sheringham
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Conceptualising the separation from an abusive partner as a multifactorial, non-linear, dynamic process: A parallel with Newton’s laws of motion

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
The present study focused on the dynamics and factors underpinning domestic abuse (DA) survivors’ decisions to end the abusive relationship. The experiences and opinions of 12 female DA survivors and 18 support workers were examined through in-depth, one-
Daniela Di Basilio   +2 more
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Specifying Turning Point in Piecewise Growth Curve Models: Challenges and Solutions

open access: yesFrontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2017
Piecewise growth curve model (PGCM) is often used when the underlying growth process is not linear and is hypothesized to consist of phasic developments connected by turning points (or knots or change points).
Ling Ning, Wen Luo
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Turning Points in Mongolian Policy of External Engagement :

open access: yesThe Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, 2020
[No abstract available]
Sharad K. Soni
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Editorial: Turning Points – Changes in Disadvantaged Life Trajectories

open access: yesSocial Work and Society, 2014
The various ages of life, particularly childhood and youth, have long been focal points of social work research and practice (Hanses, Homfeldt & Schulze-Krüdener, 2008).
Maren Zeller
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Turning Points in Research: Systems and Theory

open access: yesCorela, 2016
In certain disciplines there is no big temporal gap between the old problems and the new ones: old questions may elicit reactions pertaining to the very present. Natural and human sciences differ in the respect that their relation to their own history is
György C. Kálmán
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Coupled Land‐Sea Warming Dominates the Net Land Carbon Uptake Variability in the Greater Bay Area of South China

open access: yesEarth's Future, 2022
As Earth's warming is driven by anthropogenic activities (e.g., urbanization), land and ocean warming significantly affect the net carbon uptake (NCU) of global ecosystems. However, the driving mechanism of coupled land‐sea warming on the NCU under rapid
Bingxiong Fan, Yangfan Li
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“What I couldn’t do before, I can do now”: Narrations of agentic shifts and psychological growth by young adults reporting discontinuation of self-injury since adolescence

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2021
Purpose We explore young adults’ narrations of life events in association with nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) discontinuation, psychological growth, and agency.
Benjamin Claréus   +2 more
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