This contribution determines suitable fingerprinting properties for sediment source discrimination within theAmrovan and Atary catchments in Semnan Province, Iran. These catchments are representative of a range of geology formations and should therefore provide a meaningful basis for a general assessment of the degree of sediment source discrimination afforded by a range of fingerprint properti...

The authors of the article touch on major topic ensuring access persons with disabilities to facilities and services, which is an indicator guaranteeing rights freedoms such citizens ultimately determines quality life people. analyzes current Ukrainian legislation, as well international legal acts governing relations regarding general infrastructure. methodology includes methods analysis, synth...

— Are parks effective in forest conservation? This study examines data from 163 forests in 13 countries to determine the necessity of legally established protected areas for forest conservation and alternative conditions and institutions that may conserve forests. The results show no statistically significant differences in forest conditions between legally protected forests and forests governe...

Methods More than 4,500 legally voluntarily admitted patients in 13 psychiatric services in twelve European countries were screened for perceived coercion at admission according to the MacArthur Perceived Coercion Scale (MPCS). Patients in this way identified as legally voluntarily admitted patients who felt coerced to admission, and consecutively legally involuntarily admitted patients, in all...

This research study analyzes child welfare administrations’ influence on the amount of time a child spends as “legally free” for adoption. Data used for this study are from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS). The sample of 1,604 youth came from the 2005 adoption data. The study finds that youth in state administered child welfare systems spend less time as “lega...

Subjective Bayesian inference is unsuitable as an ideal for learning strategies to approximate, as the arbitrariness in prior probabilities makes claims to Bayesian learning too easily vulnerable to inductive skepticism. An objective Bayesian approach, which determines priors by maximizing information entropy, runs into insurmountable difficulties in conditions where no definite background theo...