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Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2023 Based on the fieldwork done with two support groups for people who had contact with a “violent death”, this article examines the different dimensions and characteristics of these individuals’ lives that shapes what we call grief.
Vittorio Talone
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Perceptions about prenatal care: views of urban vulnerable groups
BMC Public Health, 2002 Background In the United States, infant mortality rates remain more than twice as high for African Americans as compared to other racial groups. Lack of adherence to prenatal care schedules in vulnerable, hard to reach, urban, poor women is associated ...
Hatcher Barbara +9 more
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Comparative Analysis of the Anthropometric Parameters Among the Ethnic Groups of Karachi
Annals of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and Karachi Medical & Dental College, 2020 Objective: Objectives of this study were to determine the average height, weight, BMI, BSA and LBM among the different ethnic groups that exist in population of Karachi and to determine whether these anthropometric parameters vary significantly among ...
Mahrukh Kamran +5 more
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Group Segregation and Urban Violence
American Journal of Political Science, 2013 How does segregation shape intergroup violence in contested urban spaces? Should nominal rivals be kept separate or instead more closely integrated? We develop an empirically grounded agent‐based model to understand the sources and patterns of violence in urban areas, employing Jerusalem as a demonstration case and seeding our model with microlevel ...
Ravi Bhavnani +4 more
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Peasants’ Land Rights Claims Over Plantation Companies’ Sites in Central Java, Indonesia (1998-2014)
Indonesia Law Review, 2016 This article reveals the opening of political and legal opportunities for the landless peasants of Central Java at the end of the 1990s to reclaim their lands that were confiscated during the end of the 1950s through a nationalization program to take ...
Siti Rakhma Mary Herwati +1 more
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SAGE Open, 2020 Rural–urban migrants in China often experience poor living conditions and are less likely to be homeowners than urban–urban migrants. This study aims to investigate whether the homeownership gap between rural–urban migrants and urban–urban migrants in ...
Juan Ming, Jiachun Liu, Zicheng Wang
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European Journal of Spatial Development, 2023 In the past, EU cohesion policy has led to some crucial shifts in European integration, the most important of which was its influence on the emergence and ensuing dynamic of EU multi-level governance (MLG).
Vratislav Havlík
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Describing Adolescent Breastfeeding Environments Through Focus Groups in an Urban Community
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2013 Purpose: Breastfeeding is a potential solution to improve health outcomes for adolescent mothers and infants. Adolescence is a risk factor for low breastfeeding rates and is associated with a higher risk for perinatal complication.
Nikki Keene Woods +2 more
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VertigO, 2018 Based on a partial, often quantitative, negative and curative assessment of sound issues in urban projects, this article focuses on the way in which the various potential stakeholders of soundscape, consider the links between sound and urban space.
Théa Manola +3 more
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European Journal of Spatial Development, 2022 This article examines how the re-institutionalisation of transport policies starts with the everyday insurgency of fare evasion practices which exist at the fringe of social innovation.
Carine Assaf, Pieter Van den Broeck
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