The role of ethnoscience in the build-up of ethnoconservation as a new approach to nature conservation in the tropics by Antonio Carlos Diegues

“…This paper aims to describe the main features of a new approach in nature conservation in the Tropics and to analyse the important role of ethnoscience in this process, taking Brazil as a case study.It begins with a critique of the hegemonic model for nature conservation in which traditional communities living in the areas transformed into non-use protected areas have been displaced or too severely hindered to continue with their traditional way of life based on small-scale agriculture, fishing, forest harvesting and hunting. …”
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Aquarium Setup and Maintainence by Ruth Francis-Floyd, Allen Riggs, Roy Yanong

“… An aquarium can be defined as a container that holds water and is designed in such a way that living aquatic organisms can be maintained over an extended period of time. …”
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From Skinned Cats to Angels in Fur: Feline Traces and the Start of the Cat-Human Relationship in Victorian England by Hilda Kean

“…By analysing both court and newspaper reports, as well as parliamentary procedures, the lives of a range of cats were being started to be changed later in the nineteenth century. …”
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The biopolitical production of tourism areas in Lesotho: the case of Bokong Nature Reserve by Itumeleng Mokhele

“…Tourism cuts across all forms of human interaction being their living space, frontiers, socio-economic and cultural aspects. …”
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Les mobilisations sociales dans les territoires périphériques de Casablanca pendant les années 1990 by Wafae Belarbi

“…This article is a study of the forms, aims and organizational modes of mobilization of people living in the peripheral area of southern Casablanca in the 1990s. …”
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Transition mobilitaire et disparition des motos à Ho Chi Minh Ville by Huê-Tâm Jamme

“…This paper focuses on people’s lived experience of the socio-spatial transformations that ensue. …”
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Pulse vaccination strategies in a metapopulation SIR model by Alan J. Terry

“…We examine a model for a disease with SIR-type dynamics circulating in a population living on two or more patches between any pair of which migration is allowed. …”
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Agentivité grammaticale et agentivité intrinsèque by Eliane Camargo

“…Discourse on the relationship between yuxin-entities of the dead and those of the living provides an opportunity to examine the semantic content of these operators, as well as the intrinsic agency of these yuxin-entities on human-beings, especially on the bedu yuxin, the individual’s immortal life principle. …”
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Tiflis armourer Khechatur by Levan B. Dvalishvili

“…In the late 18th century and the early 19th century, in Tiflis lived and worked the highly skilled armourer Khechatur who had been considered a royal armourer since the time of Georgian kings. …”
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L’art transgenre, vers d’autres expériences corporelles du temps by Luc Schicharin

“…Finally, the performances of Kris Grey’s "Untitled" and Cassils’ "Cuts: A Traditional Sculpture" question the body as a living sculpture: they deconstruct the idea that the medical identification of sex is "the fruitful moment" (Lessing) of gender and the eternal "biological bedrock" (Freud) of subjectivity. …”
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE DANUBE DELTA BIOSPHERE RESERVE by NICOLETA DAMIAN

“…The Danube Delta Project aims at striking a balance between protecting this unique natural and cultural heritage and meeting the aspirations of the local population for better living conditions by creating the best opportunities for its economic development.…”
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Stress Management: Ways to Cope by Suzanna Smith, Joe Pergola

“…Coping is a natural process we do throughout our lives. Some ways of coping are more helpful than others. …”
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FEATURES OF TAX SYSTEM IN CANADA by L. D. Efanova, T. A. Sukhacheva

“…This state is able to provide its citizens with a high standard of living, decent wages and quite loyal tax system.…”
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Linguagem, espaço e nação: um mapeamento das identidades multigeográficas do protagonista imigrante by Cecily Raynor

“…In this paper, I analyze works portraying migration:Estive em Lisboa e lembrei devocê(2009), by Luiz Ruffatto, a work centered on the story of a Brazilian migrantto Lisbon, andMar Paraguayo(1992 ), by Wilson Bueno, which recounts the taleof a Paraguayan prostitute living inGuaratuba. Specifically, I argue thatcontemporary migration-themed novels challenge, stretch and/or interruptnarrative time-space cohesion by obscuring, often gradually, the boundaries between the national and transnational. …”
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Contesting digital leisure time: Parental struggles in relation to young children's play with tablets at home by Lundtofte Thomas Enemark

“…Young children's practices with tablet computers has been a topic in parenting discourses for several years, drawing on earlier debates over technologies and media in children's lives. In this article, I analyse data from a video observation–based media ethnography of seven Danish children (aged 4–6) and engage with the research tradition attributed to parental mediation. …”
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La forêt et son imaginaire social : quels enjeux pour l’avenir ? by Yves Luginbühl

“…After describing the main features of this symbolic history of the forest in several European countries, the article examines more closely the relationships between the landscape, the forest, and the economy with as the main criterion the sense of well-being or unease experienced by people living close to forests.…”
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Save a Child: How to Identify and Report Child Abuse by Andrew E. Toelle, Kate Fogarty

“…People who work with children, parents, and the general public may at some point in their lives and careers have to report child abuse. It is important that you be able to recognize the symptoms of abuse and be able to contact the appropriate authorities. …”
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L’animal-machine. Élevage industriel et biotechnologies by Catherine Larrère

“…This type of treatment of animals, which is a way of denying them their reality as living, sentient beings, has continually provoked an ethical criticism that aims at other relationships between humans and animals.…”
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Writing Against Culture with Online Poker by Jukka Jouhki

“…Nowadays, online poker is depicted as a game for young men whose lives are devoted to the pursuit of intense experiences. …”
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The Art of Goodbye: Why People Are Talking About the End of Life by Suzanna Smith, Lynda Spence

“…This 5-page fact sheet is the first publication in a series entitled The Art of Goodbye: End of Life Education series, and it covers changes in living and dying, preferences for the end of life, roles of substitute decision makers in health care, and communication. …”
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