a child is a person not an object of concern', was a welcome step towards children's rights and, in the future, a commissioner for children?Under the Act, parents have responsibility, not rights.Children are generally best looked after in their own homes—the levels of abuse in foster ...
The Government's (OPCS) survey of the disabled population (Bone and Meltzer, 1989) suggested that there are 21,000 severely visually impaired children in Britain. For those children and their families the level of services offered by the local authority and by other agencies can mean the diffe...
The show features many now-iconic characters but the standout star is the openly-gay series creator, Daniel Levy, who plays the family's pansexual son, David Rose. Him being forced to live in the middle of nowhere makes for so many fish-out-of-water moments, but the show does explore ...
In 1982, in response to the poor prospects for S&Ls under current economic conditions, President Ronald Reagan signedGarn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act, which eliminated loan-to-value ratios and interest rate caps for S&Ls, and also allowed them to hold 30% of their assets in con...
(Lee et al.,2020). This process, also called lexical segmentation, is potentially one of the most significant elements in successful speech comprehension as it constitutes a bridge between incoming speech stimuli and linguistic structure formation (Klatt,1989), which is particularly highlighted in ...
Since socio-economic development is associated with artificial construction, heritage environments must be protected and renewed while adapting to such development. Many World Heritage Sites’ visual integrity is endangered by new construction. The paper
Clinical work with suicidal people is a demanding area. Little is known about health professionals’ practices when faced with suicidal patients. The aims of this study were to: (1) describe the practices most likely to be adopted by professionals facing
Multidrug-resistant bacteria are of critical importance and a problem for human health and food preservation; the discovery of new antimicrobial substances to control their proliferation is part of the solution. This work reports on 57 antagonistic Aeromonas strains, of which 38 strains were antagonisti...
It is precisely this success which calls for a heightened awareness on the part of technical communicators. The first and most important step toward 'getting our act together' is a common understanding among current technical communicators on issues such as what it is that unites them as members...
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