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Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson +2 more
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The accessible electronics laboratory [PDF]
, 2004 The Disability Discrimination Act requires schools, universities and colleges not to discriminate against disabled students and to make reasonable adjustments. Laboratories are an integral part of all engineering courses.
Baker, Nina +4 more
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This study describes the work at an emergency and critical care center, focusing on the collaboration of multiple nurses when moving patients from the outpatient department to the ward. This study is an ethnomethodological ethnography based on fieldwork at a hospital and analysis of video data. The patient transport process is temporally organized into
Hiroki Maeda, Yumi Nishimura
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South African Journal of Occupational TherapyBackground: Wheelchairs are an essential assistive device that assists with the facilitation of engagement in occupation especially those that require mobility.
Helga Lister +2 more
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Living in a “Parallel World”: Disability in Post-Soviet Ukraine [PDF]
, 2002 [Excerpt] These are challenges that are familiar to disabled people all over the world. Challenges such as these make many persons with disabilities in Ukraine feel as if they live in a “parallel world,” one separate from that enjoyed by “able-bodied ...
Phillips, Sarah D
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article reports on a qualitative study of the way instructors and students understand and respond to traumatizing events in a Sri Lankan university. It shows how the attitudes and practices in the society at large are carried over to classrooms even though local institutions do not have a programmatic trauma‐informed pedagogy.
Suresh Canagarajah +1 more
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Three Things Clinicians Should Know About Disability [PDF]
, 2018 The historical relationship between health care professionals and people with disabilities is fraught, a fact all the more troubling in light of the distinctive roles clinicians play in both establishing and responding to that which is considered normal ...
Reynolds, Joel Michael
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British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.Abstract Parents of children with special needs in Nigeria are faced with several challenges. In most cases, decisions are taken without their active involvement, despite them being the primary carers for their children with special needs. This research utilised a qualitative research design with fifteen participants to understand parents' perspectives
Noah Agbo, Sylvia Yeboah Boamah
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Pregnancy Outcomes Among Individuals With Cerebral Palsy: A Population‐Based Cohort Study
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To examine the risks of maternal, neonatal and non‐obstetrical medical complications in individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) compared to those without CP. Design Population‐based cohort study. Setting Ontario, Canada. Population Females aged 13–54 years with a livebirth or stillbirth, 2004–2023.
Marina Vainder +3 more
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Andrology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Testosterone deficiency is highly prevalent in men with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) and is associated with obesity, sarcopenia, systemic inflammation, and metabolic dysfunction. However, the independent prognostic role of low testosterone in long‐term mortality in this population remains unclear.
D. Tienforti +8 more
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