The need for national leadership, partnerships and programmes to promote the health and well-being of looked-after children in Scotland by Steven McCluskey

“…Evidence further indicates that social exclusion, disaffection and powerlessness are shared features of the lives of looked-after children, due to institutional and interpersonal dependence upon socially constructed and adult-controlled systems of care and protection.…”

The Fate of Nitrogen Applied to Florida Turfgrass by Travis W. Shaddox, Joseph Bryan Unruh

“… The quality of Florida’s surface and ground waters is of utmost importance to the flora and fauna living in them, as their growth is directly related to the amount of nutrients in these waters. …”
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I racconti votivi contemporanei: pagine di un continuo liber miraculorum by Vincenzo Spera

“…The article presents an interpretation of the ex voto like a kind of storytelling of the experience lived by the devotee who claims to have had contact with the powerful Otherness. …”
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Taperekue ou abandonner sa demeure. Une population rurale guaranophone du Paraguay by Capucine Boidin

“…It appears that the abandonment of houses is linked with funeral rituals: houses seem to be lived as transitional places. Past is not to be remembered but to be erased in order to enable spatial regeneration.…”
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Tales of Their Times by Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir

“…This is achieved by looking into the tales of a woman storyteller in the nineteenth century when organized collecting began in Iceland, and three storytellers‘ repertoires from the twentieth century, when fairytales still belonged to the living oral tradition were tape-recorded. The survey is concluded by examining three recent plays involving fairytales which the author herself attended.…”
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Design and microalgae. Sustainable systems for cities by Pier Paolo Peruccio, Maurizio Vrenna

“…In recent years various interventions have involved the use of living organisms and biomaterials even in an urban context. …”
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Le séisme de Pisco du 15 août 2007 : entre urgence et reconstruction by Robert D'Ercole, Jérôme Chandes, Hugo Perfettini, Laurence Audin

“…While the event is almost forgotten at the international level, tens of thousands of people are still living in precarious conditions in the temporary shelters provided by the emergency, until begins the reconstruction process. …”
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Le fiasco de la smart city de Google à Toronto by Bernard Fallery

“…The inevitable conflicts will not be to be resolved but to be lived, in an ethics based on complex thought.…”
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Managing Pestiferous Freshwater Aquatic Midge Emergences From Storm Water Retention Ponds by Kenneth T. Gioeli, Philip G. Koehler, R. Leroy Creswell, Jeffrey P. Gellermann, Edward A. Skvarch

“…Skvarch, describes a recently developed integrated pest management plan for these tiny mosquito-like pests that can adversely impact the quality of life of residents living near storm water retention ponds. Includes references. …”
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Periodically forced discrete-time SIS epidemic model with diseaseinduced mortality by John E. Franke, Abdul-Aziz Yakubu

“…In addition, we use the Beverton-Holt recruitment function toshow that the infective population exhibits period-doubling bifurcationsroute to chaos where the disease-free susceptible population lives on a2-cycle (non-chaotic) attractor.…”
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Actors of the Civil War in Turkmenistan: the truth and fiction about Junaid Khan by D. S. Annaorazov

“…Summing up, the author assesses the personality of Junaid Khan against the backdrop of the controversial era in which this military and political figure lived.…”
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Florida Trees Store Carbon in Forests and Wood Products by Adam Maggard, Leslie Boby, Martha C. Monroe

“…Because it changes the composition of the atmosphere, CO2 is a leading contributor to climate change. Storing carbon in living trees and in long-lasting wood products such as lumber and furniture is one way to reduce atmospheric CO2. …”
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Bycie dziecka w Polsce „dobrej zmiany”– między Konwencją o Prawach Dziecka a rzeczywistością by Małgorzata Dagiel, Małgorzata Kowalik-Olubińska

“…Concern about child welfare presented by the governmental authorities is apparent and insufficient, which adversely affects children’s well-being and the quality of their lives. …”
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Thank You, Akira Hayami! The Xavier Database of Historical Japan by Satomi Kurosu, Miyuki Takahashi, Hao Dong

“…The database consists of 162 years of annual observations for 28,105 individuals living in three villages and one town of the current Fukushima prefecture between 1708 and 1870. …”
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The American Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) by Savanna Barry, Holly Abeels, Shelly Krueger

“…This 3-page fact sheet written by Savanna Barry, Holly Abeels, and Shelly Krueger and published by the UF/IFAS Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, School of Forest Resources and Conservation tells the story of these interesting and valuable "living fossils," including their importance both to ecology and human medicine. …”
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Analytical Study of Nonlinear Fractional-Order Integrodifferential Equation: Revisit Volterra's Population Model by Najeeb Alam Khan, Amir Mahmood, Nadeem Alam Khan, Asmat Ara

“…Padé approximation was effectively used in this method to capture the essential behavior of solutions for the mathematical model of accumulated effect of toxins on a population living in a closed system. The behavior of the solutions and the effects of different values of fractional-order α are indicated graphically. …”
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CKD: A Guide to Higher Fiber Foods by Wendy J. Dahl, Nancy J. Gal

“… Living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) presents many challenges, and diet is one of them. …”
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L’accompagnement des enseignants à l’heure des réformes : stratégies des formateurs de terrain face à de nouvelles formes de (dé)professionnalisation by Thérèse Perez-Roux, Éric Maleyrot

“…The study is interested in the way some of them (PEMF) lived the implementation of this reform. It explains compromises and arrangements deployed by these teacher trainers to face these changes. …”
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Geographies of Cocaine: Trajectories of Colombian Women Imprisoned for Drug Trafficking in Ecuador by Ana María Cerón Cáceres

“…The conversations with these women and the ethnography of the visit to the Latacunga prison illustrate how global processes, in this case surrounding the coca economy and the struggle for its control, are embodied in lived experiences. In the testimonies of these women two different geographies of cocaine emerged: one that criminalizes the movement of "suspicious" bodies and rearticulates international borders within the walls of the prison. …”
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„Aufbau Ost“ (Reconstruction East): Was There Something Wrong? by Rüdiger Pohl

“…It is particularly noteworthy that the general living conditions in Eastern Germany today are similar to those in the West. …”
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