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Acquiring Knowledge About Adolescents’ Activities: Muslim Mothers and Their Daughters and Sons

open access: yesJournal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Drawing on social cognitive domain theory, this study investigated how Muslim mothers in the United States acquired knowledge regarding their adolescent children's activities. Despite the importance of parental monitoring in adolescent development, research remains limited regarding how cultural and religious contexts shape these ...
Christopher Daddis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Afforestation Partially Offsets Losses of Soil Conservation Services and Carbon Stock From Direct and Indirect Urban Expansion in China

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Urban expansion has exerted both direct and indirect impacts on natural land and ecosystem services it supports, driven by increasing population and food demand, yet these underlying pathways remain insufficiently distinguished. Here, we quantified the losses of soil conservation services (water erosion regulation and sandstorm prevention) and
Shuai Liu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Chemical Compliance: A Critical Review Toward Microbiome‐Informed Ecological Exit Criteria for Bioremediated Soils

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Chemical compliance remains the usual endpoint for closing contaminated‐soil remediation projects, although it does not establish recovery of soil function or the durability of the post‐treatment state. This critical review examines when microbiological evidence can contribute to ecological closure decisions.
Mariusz Cycoń
wiley   +1 more source

Multi‐Agent Reinforcement Learning for Joint Police Patrol and Dispatch

open access: yesNaval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Police patrol units need to split their time between performing preventive patrol and being dispatched to serve emergency incidents. In the existing literature, patrol and dispatch decisions are often studied separately. We consider joint optimization of these two decisions to improve police operations efficiency and reduce response time to ...
Matthew Repasky, He Wang, Yao Xie
wiley   +1 more source

State Capacity and Path Dependence in Cape Verde's Supreme Audit Institution

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines state capacity and path dependence in the Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of Cape Verde, focussing on the performance and governance of the Court of Auditors. Drawing on a mixed‐methods longitudinal design covering the period from 2010 to 2024, the analysis combines international governance indicators, documentary analysis,
Ana Lúcia Romão
wiley   +1 more source

Large Tuberculosis Outbreaks - United States, 2017-2023. [PDF]

open access: yesMMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
Raz KM   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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