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Listening to Neglected Voices: Hmong and Public Lands in Minnesota and Wisconsin

TL;DR: This article conducted a series of five focus groups with Hmong Americans in Minnesota and Wisconsin, exploring their experiences and perspectives on public lands and revealed deep cultural and personal connections with the natural world and the importance of public lands to many Hmong But they also heard profound problems and concerns Perceptions of racism, discrimination, and harassment from public land managers and other agency personnel, recreationists, and private landowners are common Participants had many suggestions for improvement and insights regarding the special needs of new refugees who arrived in the United States in recent years
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The zooarchaeology of tel tif'dan (wadi fidan 001), southern jordan

Katheryn C. Twiss
- 01 Jan 2007 - 
TL;DR: New zooarchaeological data is presented from the southern Jordanian LPPNB site of Tel Tif'dan (Wadi Fidan 001) and site subsistence practices are compared with those known from other LPNNB sites in order to broaden understanding of the regional animal economy.
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Mineral-resource prediction using advanced data analytics and machine learning of the QUEST-South stream-sediment geochemical data, southwestern British Columbia, Canada

TL;DR: In this paper, multivariate statistical and predictive classification methods were applied to interpret geochemical data from 8545 stream-sediment samples collected in southern British Columbia, Canada, where each sample site was attributed with the closest British Columbia MINFILE occurrence within 2.5 km.
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Filling the Gap in Extended Metal Atom Chains: Ferromagnetic Interactions in a Tetrairon(II) String Supported by Oligo-α-pyridylamido Ligands.

TL;DR: The stringlike complex [Fe4(tpda)3Cl2] (2; H2tpda = N2, N6-bis(pyridin-2-yl)pyridine-2,6-diamine) was obtained as the first homometallic extended metal atom chain based on iron(II) and oligo-α-pyridylamido ligands.
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Undiscovered porphyry copper resources in the Urals—A probabilistic mineral resource assessment

TL;DR: In this article, a probabilistic mineral resource assessment of metal resources in undiscovered porphyry copper deposits of the Ural Mountains in Russia and Kazakhstan was done using a quantitative form of mining resource assessment.
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Impact Evaluation of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program: The Nicaraguan Red de Proteccion Social

TL;DR: The impact evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program was performed by the Nicaraguan Red de Proteccion Social (RPS) as discussed by the authors, which evaluated the effectiveness of the program.
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The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research

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An evaluation of the impact of progresa on pre-school child height

TL;DR: One of the major components of the PROGRESA program has been directed toward improving the nutritional status of small children in poor rural communities in Mexico as mentioned in this paper, which has been shown to have a substantial effect on lifetime productivities and earnings of currently small children.
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Progressing through progresa: an impact assessment of a school subsidy experiment

TL;DR: The authors used a Markov schooling transition model applied to the experimental data to assess the impact of the educational subsidy program along several dimensions, including effects on initial ages of school entry, dropout rates, grade repetition rates, and school reentry rates.
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A New Approach to Social Assistance: Latin America’s Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programs

TL;DR: Conditional cash transfer as discussed by the authors is a departure from more traditional approaches to social assistance, that represents an innovative, and increasingly popular channel for the delivery of social services that represents a demand-side complement to the supply of health, and education services.
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