"HOW CAN YOU KISS AND TOUCH THIS CHILD AND SHOW AFFECTION TOWARDS HER? WHAT KIND OF WOMAN ARE YOU?": PROVIDER PERSPECTIVES ON STIGMA TOWARDS NATIVE AND ETHNIC MINORITY STREET-CONNECTED YOUTH IN THE REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA.

The Republic of Georgia has experienced a rapid growth in the number of youth working and/or living on the street (YWLS).Although research indicates that YWLS are highly stigmatized, few studies have examined perceptions of stigma among Georgian social service providers who serve YWLS.We conducted in-person in-depth interviews with key informants r

This paper deals with the multi-pulse chaotic dynamics of a sandwich plate with truss core under transverse and in-plane excitations.In order to analyze the complicated nonlinear behaviors Balloons of the sandwich plate model by means of the improved extended Melnikov technique, the two-degrees non-autonomous system is transformed into an appropria

In the past three decades Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Dubai have realised a meteoric economic rise.Whereas the former two can be considered ‘rentier states’ Fenders heavily depending on oil (and gas) revenues, the latter only leans on oil for a mere 6% of its gross domestic product (GDP).Although the economic rise has brought considerable welf

The present work develops a part of the experimental works that we are carrying out in the supraforestal level Fenders of the eastern Pyrenees.The work has been accomplished on an erosive level near the crest, in a limited zone of 340m2 at 2.170 m.of altitude.The experiments attempt to detect the movility ofstones in the periglaciar High Rise Short