Academic Articles & Research Papers

Soviet Empire, Childhood, and Education

Children constituted a key element of the Soviet empire-building project, reconfiguring childhoods and refashioning the colonial space itself.  Children of different ethnicities across the territories of the Soviet republics were to be unit...

AVALIAÇÃO DE PERIÓDICOS CIENTÍFICOS BRASILEIROS DA ÁREA DA SEGURANÇA PÚBLICA

Este artigo busca, pela primeira vez, verificar a qualidade das revistas científicas da área de segurança pública em relação aos novos padrões da ciência aberta, conforme a abordagem dimensional de Trzesniak. Foram construídos e aplicados i...

How does tax avoidance affect corporate social responsibility and financial ratio in emerging economies?

The purpose of this study is to better understand the relationship between financial ratios and tax avoidance in businesses that practice corporate social responsibility. Using a sample of 30 Tunisian financial institutions listed on the st...

Serviço Social, mobilização e organização popular: uma sistematização do debate contemporâneo

O presente artigo versa sobre a intervenção do Serviço Social nos processos de mobilização e organização popular e, particularmente, sobre o debate contemporâneo que vem sendo realizado sobre o tema. Este debate é apresentado nas elaboraçõe...

Six-month retention and changes in quality of life and substance use from a low-threshold methadone maintenance therapy programme in Durban, South Africa

Abstract Background Emerging data points to a potential heroin use epidemic in South Africa. Despite this, access to methadone maintenance therapy and other evidence-based treatment options remains negligible. We aimed to assess retention, ...

Investigating the relationship between knowledge absorptive capacity and talent management with organizational performance

Background: The capacity to absorb knowledge and manage organizational talent and performance is important to the survival of organizations. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between knowledge absorptive capacity and...

The Belgrade town police in the period of the establishment of the constitutionalists' government

Prince Mihailo Obrenovic took over the administration of the country in the significantly altered the constitutional situation, created by the adoption of the Constitution of 1838 and the departure of Serbian Prince Milos 1839. Constitution...

C no more: a prospective single-arm study to evaluate the effectiveness of a nurse and peer-led mobile model of hepatitis C testing and treatment at community corrections offices

Abstract Background The community corrections population in Australia shares similar risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection with people incarcerated in prisons, but without access to prison-based testing and treatment. While hep...

Punk’s not dead? Not red? Not bad? Ideology and identity of punk rock in Czechia

The paper examines the ideology, identity and values of punk rock in the Czech context using a cross-sectional ex post facto survey of musical subcultures. The study analyzed effects of gender, age and value preferences on identification wi...

Social and Cultural Predicaments of Female-Headed Households Related to Charitable Institutions in Behbahan

Introduction The number of female-headed households has significantly increased worldwide. In Iran as well, these households now account for more than 14% of all families. Female heads of households are women who, due to reasons such as div...

PADRÕES ESPACIAIS E CONVERGÊNCIA DA TAXA DE HOMICÍDIOS NO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO

Este estudo investigou os padrões espaciais das taxas de homicídios e avaliou a hipótese de convergência em microrregiões do estado de São Paulo. Utilizando ferramentas de Análise Exploratória de Dados Espaciais (AEDE) e o modelo espacial d...

Book review: Dibs: In search of self by Virginia M. Axline

In response to James Anglin’s challenge in this journal’s previous issue, to take an old book off the shelf and reread it, I immediately thought of Virginia Axline’s Dibs: In Search of Self. When I became an undergraduate psychology major o...

Postmodernism and Rethinking the Concept of Crime

Defining the concept of crime is the starting point in the criminal thought. Basically, any view taken on the concept of crime formulates the other fundamental criminological concepts (such as the criminal and etiology) as well as basic con...

Perception among medical students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, regarding alcohol and substance abuse in the community: a cross-sectional survey

Abstract Background This study was conducted to examine the perception and views of medical students regarding the extent of alcohol and substance abuse in the community and the possible predisposing factors for this problem. Methods It is ...

Senhor Legislador, por favor, descriminalize as nossas contravenções penais!

O tempo presente se singulariza pela ruptura e pelo casuísmo. Ruptura e casuísmo que sugerem, atentos nós a um específico nódulo de preocupações, um esfumaçar dos limites entre o direito penal e o administrativo....

Legalisation of non-medical cannabis in Canada: will supply regulations effectively serve public health?

Proteção social, famílias e os desafios em tempos de crises

O trabalho apresenta o debate sobre proteção social às famílias no contexto de crises, em que se realiza reflexões sobre o desenvolvimento das políticas de proteção social no capitalismo e os desafios postos a essas políticas diante da cris...

On-the-Fly Sleep Scoring Algorithm with Heart Rate, RR Intervals and Accelerometer as Input

In many applications, recognizing the depth of sleep (e.g., light, deep, REM sleep) while the subject is sleeping enables innovative features. For instance, in SAE Level 4 autonomous driving, a driver may need to takeover the vehicle contro...

RETÓRICA DOS ESTEREÓTIPOS, PRÁTICAS DISCURSIVAS E PERFORMANCES CONTEMPORÂNEAS

Em uma rápida e intensa alteração das configurações do debate público na cena republicana brasileira, temos observado a emergência insistente e reiterada da atualização de estereótipos e imagens cristalizadas tradicionais excludentes que or...

L’italianizzazione del siciliano nei Malavoglia tra la chiarezza del testo e la traduzione in arabo

Lo scopo della presente ricerca è, in primo luogo, quello di presentare lo scrittore ottocentesco Giovanni Verga in una prospettiva diversa e insolita. Verga è generalmente considerato il maggior esponente del verismo italiano. In effetti p...