The perception of the ethnic identity of the Irish Travellers by Tereza Händlová

“…The research highlights the incomplete assimilation of Travellers and the eventual recognition of their ethnic identity in 2017, driven by advocacy groups and international organisations. Despite the loss of their nomadic lifestyle, informants express a strong sense of belonging to the Traveller community. …”
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Withholding homicide victim names: Looking for a win-win solution for families and the police by Rick Ruddell, Jody Burnett

“… Although withholding the names of homicide victims from the public is a relatively new police practice, it has proven to be controversial, with the media, legal scholars, and victim advocacy groups often opposing these policies. In order to better understand the issue of withholding names, we examined the prevalence of these practices in Canada’s largest municipal police services. …”
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Justifying the Necessity of Anti-Abortion Legislation: An Exploratory Analysis of Moral Panic Style in American Pro-Life Advocacy and Media Discourses by Pîrciu Alexandru

“…This article aims to explore the working hypothesis that U.S. pro-life advocacy groups and media employed elements of a moral panic style in the period before the Supreme Court Dobbs hearing. …”
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ISO 14001 and EPA Region I's StarTrack Program: Assessing their Potential as Tools in Environmental Protection by MacDonagh-Dumler, Jeffrey, Thorens, Pascal, Ehrenfeld, John, Nash, Jennifer

“…To study StarTrack, we interviewed managers at four of the six facilities that have participated in the program since its inception, as well as EPA staff members at the regional and national levels, state environmental officials, and representatives of environmental advocacy groups.…”
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The politics of government decision making : regulatory institutions by Laffont, Jean-Jacques, Tirole, Jean

“…The regulator may identify with the industry, but a regulatory hearing offers the advocacy groups (watchdogs) an opportunity to alter the proposed rule making. …”
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The International LAM Registry: A Component of an Innovative Web-Based Clinician, Researcher, and Patient-Driven Rare Disease Research Platform by Nurok, Michael, Eslick, Ian Scott, Carvalho, Carlos R. R., Costabel, Ulrich, D'Armiento, Jeanine, Glanville, Allan R., Harari, Sergio, Henske, Elizabeth P., Inoue, Yoshikazu, Johnson, Simon R., Lacronique, Jacques, Lazor, Romain, Moss, Joel, Ruoss, Stephen J., Ryu, Jay H., Seyama, Kuniaki, Watz, Henrik, Xu, Kai–Feng, Hohmann, Elizabeth L., Moss, Frank

“…Conclusions: Collaboration between clinicians, researchers, advocacy groups, and patients can create essential community resource infrastructure to accelerate rare disease research. …”
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Multipillarisation remodelled: the role of interest organizations in British and German pension reforms by Ebbinghaus, B

“…The position of trade unions, employers’ associations, social advocacy groups and the finance sector has increasingly embraced multipillarisation, earlier and more so in Britain than in Germany. …”

Reporting conflicts of interest in randomised trials of patient blood management interventions in patients requiring major surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Riccardo G Abbasciano, Gavin Murphy, Toby Richards, Marius Roman, Oluwatomini Fashina, Sara Tomassini, Florence Lai

“…Conflicts of interest were defined as sponsorship, funding or authorship by industry, professional PBM advocacy groups or blood services.Data extraction and synthesis Three independent reviewers extracted the data and assessed the risk of bias. …”
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How to improve psychiatric nosography in the XXI century: a phenomenologist”s viewpoint by Giovanni Stanghellini

“…Classifications of mental disorders reflect much more the minds of psychiatrists than the patients’ minds since these classifications are more focused on the interests of stakeholders (including governmental agencies, advocacy groups, medical insurance, and pharmaceutical companies) than on the experiences of patients. …”
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Opportunities for Research in Mental Health Emergencies: Executive Summary and Methodology by Michael P. Wilson, Christina Shenvi, Loren Rives, Kimberly Nordstrom, Sandra Schneider, Michael Gerardi

“…To address this important problem, the Coalition on Psychiatric Emergencies convened a research consensus conference in December 2016 consisting of clinical researchers, clinicians from emergency medicine, psychiatry and psychology, and representatives from governmental agencies and patient advocacy groups. Methods: Participants used a standardized methodology to select and rank research questions in the order of importance to both researchers and patients. …”
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Validity and Reliability of the Thai Mental Health Questionnaire in Psychiatric Patients in the Community by Sucheera Phattharayuttawat, Thienchai Ngamthipwattana

“…We obtained the opinions of experienced professionals, advocacy groups and patient groups to evaluate consensual and content validity. …”
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Postgraduate students as OER capacitators by Thomas William King

“… A comprehensive theoretical, legal and practical basis for OER has been developed over the past fifteen years, supported by the expansion of open source curation platforms and the work of advocacy groups and international bodies. OER’s potential has been sufficiently documented; the question remains how best to support, integrate and normalise OER activity within the academic community in a sustainable fashion. …”
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Reflections on 30 Years of AIDS by Kevin M. De Cock, Harold W. Jaffe, James W. Curran

“…As the epidemic expanded into developing countries, new models of global health and new global partnerships developed. Advocacy groups played a major role in mobilizing the response to the epidemic, having human rights as a central theme. …”
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Postgraduate students as OER capacitators by Thomas William King

“…<p>A comprehensive theoretical, legal and practical basis for OER has been developed over the past fifteen years, supported by the expansion of open source curation platforms and the work of advocacy groups and international bodies. OER’s potential has been sufficiently documented; the question remains how best to support, integrate and normalise OER activity within the academic community in a sustainable fashion. …”
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Scottish Disability Organizations and Online Media: A Path to Empowerment or “Business as Usual”? by Filippo Trevisan

“…Nonetheless, the analysis revealed also that such ‘minimalistic’ approach to online media was in fact underpinned by very different motives for disability non-profits on one side and self-advocacy groups on the other.…”
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Critical food guidance from the slow food movement: The relationship barometer by Brooke Fader, Michèle Mesmain, Ellen Desjardins

“…This tool is meant for use by advocacy groups and policy makers rather than individuals. …”
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Anti-helmet Arguments: Lies, Damned Lies and Flawed Statistics by Jake Olivier, Joanna Wang, Scott Walter, Raphael Grzebieta

“…Since that time, helmets and helmet laws have been portrayed as a failure in the peer-reviewed literature, by the media and various advocacy groups. Many of these criticisms claim helmets are ineffective, helmet laws deter cycling, helmet wearing increases the risk of an accident, no evidence helmet laws reduce head injuries at a population level, and helmet laws result in a net health reduction. …”
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Who tweets about cancer? An analysis of cancer-related tweets in the USA by Dhiraj Murthy, Macgill Eldredge

“…Some oncologists and oncology centres are engaging with social media, and advocacy groups are using it to disseminate information and coordinate fundraising efforts. …”
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Makna Simbolik dalam Iklan Cerdas dan Target Perilaku Khalayak by Ferdinand Eskol Tiar Sirait

“…Despite the potential for a dramatic increase for online advertisers and publishers, some users and user advocacy groups have expressed concern over the privacy concerns posed by behavioral targeting…”
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AgEvidence: a dataset to explore agro-ecological effects of conservation agriculture by Lesley Atwood, Maria Gannett, Stephen A. Wood

“…We hope this dataset will help a wide variety of stakeholders, including researchers, policy makers, advocacy groups, and growers access the evidence needed to make informed and impactful decisions about how to produce food with less negative environmental impact.…”
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