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How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short‐term tactics and long‐term impacts

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From butterflies to lizards and from sharks to seabirds, wildlife exhibit tactics to survive the impacts of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes, cyclones, or typhoons depending on where they occur. Some species seek refuge during the storm by moving, some remain in place and ride it out, and others move longer distances, avoiding the ...
Erin L. Koen, Mohamed Khalil Meliane, Zachery B. Holmes, Karl E. Miller, William J. Barichivich, Emilie Dedeban, Alex Furst, Miranda Imeri, Peyton E. Niebanck, Samantha Nunn, Kailee Pearson, Nicole Rita, Brier Ryver, Dakotah Shaffer, Susan C. Walls, E. Hance Ellington   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exposure to maltreatment and urban violence in children working on the streets in São Paulo, Brazil: factors associated with street work

Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2014
Objective: To quantitatively study the exposure to childhood maltreatment and urban violence in children from families with at least one child working on the streets and to investigate the relationship between these factors and street work.
Andrea F. Mello, Mariana R. Maciel, Victor Fossaluza, Cristiane S. de Paula, Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira, Luciana P. Cavalcante-Nóbrega, Giuliana C. Cividanes, Yusaku Soussumi, Sonia P. Soussumi, Dirce N.M. Perissinotti, Isabel A. Bordin, Marcelo F. Mello, Jair J. Mari   +12 more
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Urban Violence, Migration and Alcohol, Tobacco, and Marijuana Use among Transnational Students in Northern Mexico. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2023
García-Pérez H, Kulis SS, Marsiglia FF, Estabrooks PA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Urban Violence and Citizanship

, 2020
Political protest is the expression of the non-acquiescence about a decision or a set of political decisions, or the non-acknowledgement of the legitimacy for the decision making process. The political intervention is assumed to be, in that case, extremely relevant for the political and social awareness. – Felgueiras Sérgio. Geração á Rasca .
openaire   +2 more sources

Brazilian policy responses to violence against women: government strategy and the help-seeking behaviors of women who experience violence. [PDF]

, 2012
Over the past three decades, international covenants have been signed and countries have implemented strategies and legislation to address violence against women.
Kiss, Ligia, Watts, Charlotte, Zimmerman, Cathy, Heise, Lori, Schraiber, Lilia Blima, d'Oliveira, Ana Flavia Lucas   +5 more
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The evidence base for ranger patrol effectiveness in conservation and how to improve it

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ranger patrols are a cornerstone of wildlife protection efforts around the world and occur across all ecological governance systems. Evidence that patrols reduce threats to wildlife and enable their recovery has not been systematically examined previously.
Trina Rytwinski, Robert S. A. Pickles, Matthew J. Muir, Steven J. Cooke, Joseph R. Bennett, Lisa A. Kelly, Adrienne Smith, Cynthia Cadet, Dwi N. Adhiasto, Inés Arroyo Quiroz, Mark D. Booton, Daphne P. Carlson, Drew T. Cronin, Anthony Dancer, Meredith L. Gore, Jennifer R. B. Miller, Stephen F. Pires, Amy Pokempner, James Slade, Andrew M. Lemieux   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban violence: history and Ethiopians dilettante to learn from it, 1916–1991

Cogent Social Sciences
In Ethiopia, urbanization and urban violence are recent phenomena dating back to the beginning of the twentieth century. In the country’s long history, politics and urban violence have been bedfellows and reliable means of change, devolution, and reform.
Yalemzewd Dessie
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of Covid-19 Restrictions on Urban Violence. [PDF]

Am Surg, 2022
Lalchandani P, Strong BL, Harfouche MN, Diaz JJ, Scalea TM.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A formative evaluation of the Silence The Violence programme : a school-based violence prevention programme

, 2010
Includes summary.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-68).This report presents the findings of a formative evaluation of the Silence The Violence (STV) programme, a school-based violence prevention initiative. The programme is implemented by an
Phillips, Lynn
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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
wiley   +1 more source