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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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The Archeology of Oil Tanker Shipwrecks and Their Potential to Pollute
Oil tanker shipwrecks represent both cultural heritage and environmental risk. These wrecks are historically significant as war graves and simultaneously pose long-term threats to marine ecosystems through the potential release of petroleum cargo. During
Michael L. Brennan
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ABSTRACT Children experiencing parental imprisonment are known to be among the most overlooked in our community. They often experience multiple and compounding disadvantages, with long‐term consequences, but receive no specialised assistance. Knowledge about these children and their families is lacking in Australia and is required to inform policy ...
Catherine Flynn +6 more
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Les épaves de l’estran : un patrimoine exceptionnel, une gestion complexe !
Neglected for a long time by maritime archaeologists, intertidal shipwrecks, threatened by erosion and winter storms, now arouse a new interest.
Olivia Hulot, Cécile Sauvage
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Naufragios en la costa de Bizkaia (1550-1800)
Shipwreck involves the darkest side of early modern maritime navigation and trade. Nonetheless, it is a socioeconomic and human feature of the marine communities, not deeply addressed for this period in the Biscayan coastline hitherto.Fortunately ...
Ekain Cagigal
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Abstract Basking sharks, Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, Brugden [Squalus maximus], Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter, 1765, vol. 3, pp. 33–49), feed by gaping their mouths and gill slits, greatly reorienting their cranial skeletons to filter food from water.
Tairan Li +12 more
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Scanning Parametric Sediment Echosounder as Tool for Underwater Archaeological Prospection
ABSTRACT Underwater cultural heritage 3D prospection techniques, especially for remains that are partly buried in the ground, are only very rarely available and often can only be applied with considerable technical effort. To overcome this limitation, we evaluate a methodological adaption of widely used and available single channel parametric sediment ...
Dennis Wilken +5 more
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Historic wrecks: Risks or resources
The question of whether historic wrecks are risks or resources is a matter of perception and understanding. This paper discusses how shipwrecks can be, and have been, perceived as either risks and/or resources or neither, but yet how wrecks tend to be ...
Scott-Ireton, Della (author) +2 more
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Emotional nourishment begets academic coping during the primary to secondary school transition
Abstract The transition from primary to secondary school is widely viewed as the most demanding in a child's educational journey. Despite a wealth of research on this transition, little is known about the children's ‘lived experience’ of it across different contexts.
Peter Wood +2 more
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Second World War was one of the most devastating experiences that World as a whole had to endure. The war left so many issues unhandled, one such issue is the theme of this thesis, and that is to analyze legal regime that is governing sunken warships ...
Senada Meskin
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