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Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins

Description: This article examines the connections between participants in the illicit drug trade and members of state security forces to understand how they impact everyday understandings of the law. The authors used ethnographic fieldwork in a poor, high-crime district in Argentina and information gathered for a court case involving a drug trafficking group active in the same area as the basis for their research.
Date: April 10, 2019
Creator: Sobering, Katherine & Auyero, Javier
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COVID-19 has heightened tensions between and exposed threats to core values of emergency medicine

Description: The authors of the article conducted a collaborative ethnography at a tertiary care center during the acute phase of the response to the threat of COVID-19. they found that COVID-19 exacerbated pre-existing tensions and threats to the core values of emergency medicine.
Date: September 10, 2022
Creator: Purdy, Eve; Forster, Gillian; Manlove, Hayley; McDonough, Laura; Powell, Meredith; Wood, Krista et al.
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Deaf Adults’ Health Literacy and Access to Health Information: Protocol for a Multicenter Mixed Methods Study

Description: Article where the study aims to elucidate the role of information marginalization on health literacy in Deaf ASL users and to better understand the mechanisms of health literacy in this population for the purpose of identifying viable targets for future health literacy interventions.
Date: September 10, 2019
Creator: McKee, Michael M.; Hauser, Peter C.; Champlin, Sara; Paasche-Orlow, Michael; Wyse, Kelley; Cuculick, Jessica et al.
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Doing our work better, together: a relationship-based approach to defining the quality improvement agenda in trauma care

Description: Article presents a study conducted at Gold Coast University Hospital that aimed to define and improve relational aspects of trauma care and facilitate co-creation of targeted interventions designed to improve team relationships and performance.
Date: February 10, 2020
Creator: Henry, Doug; Purdy, Eve Isabelle; McLean, Darren; Alexander, Charlotte; Scott, Matthew; Donohue, Andrew et al.
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Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Vegetation in the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in Northwest China Using Landsat Derived NDVI

Description: This article uses 41 Landsat images between 1988 and 2016 to calculate the normalized difference vegetation indices (NVDIs) of the wetland vegetation at Xitugou (XTG) and Wowachi (WWC) inside the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in northwest China in order to assess the impacts of climate change on wetland vegetation.
Date: May 10, 2018
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Xie, Jianping; Lin, Juming; Zhao, Tingwei; Ji, Yongyuan; Hu, Qi et al.
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The “Malevolent” Benevolence: what happens to perceived immigrant threat when value priorities collide?

Description: This article examines how self-transcending human values affect perceptions of immigrant threat. Results show that benevolence and universalism tend to affect perceived immigrant threat in opposite directions. A part of individuals’ anti-immigrant bias does not stem from strictly self-interested motivations, as often proposed, but by a sense of loyalty to the interests of our immediate contacts.
Date: February 10, 2021
Creator: Grigoropoulou, Nikolitsa
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Piloting Deposit Contracts to Increase Accessibility of a Contingency Management Intervention to Reduce Problematic Drinking

Description: Data management plan for the grant, "Piloting Deposit Contracts to Increase Accessibility of a Contingency Management Intervention to Reduce Problematic Drinking". The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility and/or effectiveness of deposit contracts as an intervention for problematic drinking.
Date: 2022-06-10/2024-03-31
Creator: Dougherty, Donald M.
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Positive memory intervention techniques: a scoping review

Description: This article is a review that examines and summarises the available knowledge base on intervention techniques focused on positive memories. This review serves as a quick reference guide to help professionals’ access to descriptions and information on empirical evidence of positive memory techniques, improving their therapeutic arsenal to enhance well-being and therapeutic outcomes in their patients.
Date: June 10, 2021
Creator: Miguel-Alvaro, Alejandro; Guillén, Ana I.; Contractor, Ateka A. & Crespo, María
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A semi-automated method for extracting channels and channel profiles from lidar-derived digital elevation models

Description: Article introduces a semi-automated method for extracting stream channels and channel profiles from high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) using image processing techniques. The method is implemented as an ArcGIS Python add-in toolbar named Channel Extraction and demonstrated using a lidar-derived DEM in a study area along the San Andreas fault in California, USA.
Date: March 10, 2020
Creator: Dong, Pinliang; Zhong, Ruofei; Xia, Jisheng & Tan, Shucheng
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