The Alberta Legal Services Mapping Project: Report for the Lethbridge Judicial District

The Lethbridge Judicial District is the third of eleven Alberta Judicial Districts to be mapped as part of the Alberta Legal Services Mapping Project (ALSMP). The ALSMP is a large-scale, multi-year endeavour, designed to gain an understanding of the legal needs of Albertans and of the legal services available in Alberta

The Alberta Legal Services Mapping Project: Report for the St. Paul Judicial District

The St. Paul Judicial District is the fifth of eleven Alberta Judicial Districts to be mapped as part of the Alberta Legal Services Mapping Project (ALSMP). The ALSMP is a largescale, multi-year endeavour, designed to gain an understanding of the legal needs of Albertans and of the legal services available in Alberta

Alberta Legal Services Mapping Project: Brief Overview

The Alberta Legal Services Mapping Project is a collaborative action research initiative undertaken by the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice in association with a broad partnership of justice community representatives. The research will lead to the creation of a province-wide “map” of legal services that provide to the Alberta public - information, education, legal advice, legal representation and/or other support or assistance related to legal problems. The map will include the central services provided by pro bono initiatives, clinics, public legal education services, courts, legal aid, the private Bar and social services relevant to the needs of users of the justice system, and will extend to civil, family, criminal and administrative justice programs

The Alberta Legal Services Mapping Project: Report for the Medicine Hat Judicial District

The Medicine Hat Judicial District is the fourth of eleven Alberta Judicial Districts to be mapped as part of the Alberta Legal Services Mapping Project (ALSMP). The ALSMP is a large-scale, multi-year endeavour, designed to gain an understanding of the legal needs of Albertans and of the legal services available in Alberta

Dataset of the suitability of major food crops in Africa under climate change

Understanding the extent and adapting to the impacts of climate change in the agriculture sector in Africa requires robust data on which technical and policy decisions can be based. However, there are no publicly available comprehensive data of which crops are suitable where under current and projected climate conditions for impact assessments and targeted adaptation planning. We developed a dataset on crop suitability of 23 major food crops (eight cereals, six legumes & pulses, six root & tuber crops, and three in banana-related family) for rainfed agriculture in Africa in terms of area and produced quantity. This dataset is based on the EcoCrop model parameterized with temperature, precipitation and soil data and is available for the historical period and until mid-century. The scenarios used for future projections are SSP1:RCP2.6, SSP3:RCP7.0 and SSP5:RCP8.5. The dataset provides a quantitative assessment of the impacts of climate change on crop production potential and can enable applications and linkages of crop impact studies to other socioeconomic aspects, thereby facilitating more comprehensive understanding of climate change impacts and assessment of options for building resilience

The Alberta Legal Services Mapping Project: Report for the Fort McMurray Judicial District

The Fort McMurray Judicial District is the second of eleven Alberta Judicial Districts to be mapped as part of the Alberta Legal Services Mapping Project (ALSMP). The ALSMP is a large-scale, 4.5 year endeavour, designed to gain an understanding of the legal needs of Albertans and of the legal services available in Alberta

The Alberta Legal Services Mapping Project: Report for the Calgary Judicial District

The „justice system‟ is a fundamental and far-reaching component of our system of democracy in Alberta. It is not one united system but an institutionalized process to address criminal and civil conflicts. It is made up of a complexity of organizations with overlapping provincial and federal jurisdictions. There are substantive and procedural laws with four broad divisions: civil, family, criminal and administrative. Many of these laws and the legal services associated with them, function to avoid conflict and legal problems. Ideally, legal services work to resolve conflicts without resorting to the courts or tribunals, the purpose of which is to act as a final resort in cases of high conflict

Carbon and nitrogen isotope fractionation of amino acids in an avian marine predator, the gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua)

© The Author(s), 2015. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Ecology and Evolution 5 (2015): 1278–1290, doi:10.1002/ece3.1437.Compound-specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA) of amino acids (AA) has rapidly become a powerful tool in studies of food web architecture, resource use, and biogeochemical cycling. However, applications to avian ecology have been limited because no controlled studies have examined the patterns in AA isotope fractionation in birds. We conducted a controlled CSIA feeding experiment on an avian species, the gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua), to examine patterns in individual AA carbon and nitrogen stable isotope fractionation between diet (D) and consumer (C) (Δ13CC-D and Δ15NC-D, respectively). We found that essential AA δ13C values and source AA δ15N values in feathers showed minimal trophic fractionation between diet and consumer, providing independent but complimentary archival proxies for primary producers and nitrogen sources respectively, at the base of food webs supporting penguins. Variations in nonessential AA Δ13CC-D values reflected differences in macromolecule sources used for biosynthesis (e.g., protein vs. lipids) and provided a metric to assess resource utilization. The avian-specific nitrogen trophic discrimination factor (TDFGlu-Phe = 3.5 ± 0.4‰) that we calculated from the difference in trophic fractionation (Δ15NC-D) of glutamic acid and phenylalanine was significantly lower than the conventional literature value of 7.6‰. Trophic positions of five species of wild penguins calculated using a multi-TDFGlu-Phe equation with the avian-specific TDFGlu-Phe value from our experiment provided estimates that were more ecologically realistic than estimates using a single TDFGlu-Phe of 7.6‰ from the previous literature. Our results provide a quantitative, mechanistic framework for the use of CSIA in nonlethal, archival feathers to study the movement and foraging ecology of avian consumers.This research was funded by National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs [grants ANT-0125098, ANT-0739575] and the 2013 Antarctic Science Bursaries

Los procesos de tenencia y la vulneración al derecho de defensa en el Primer Juzgado de Familia del Santa, 2021

La presente investigación científica tiene como objetivo general analizar de qué manera se vulnera el derecho de defensa del demandado(a) en los procesos de tenencia en el Primer Juzgado de Familia del Santa, 2021. Esta problemática se origina en la audiencia de toma de declaración delmenor de edad, la cual, se realiza solo con la exclusiva presencia del Juez y Fiscal de Familia, desplazando al abogado defensor del demandado(a) de estar presente en la misma, privándolo de que, pueda advertir conductas parcializadas que influyan en la declaración del menor de edad. Asimismo, para la presente investigación se utilizó el enfoque cualitativo, con método descriptivo de diseño de teoría fundamentada, para lo cual, se contó con una guía de entrevista para abogados litigantes y magistrados, teniendo como resultado que, es perjudicial para el derecho de defensa del demandado(a) no tener la presencia de su abogado defensor en dicha audiencia a fin de que, supervise o advierta conductas que induzcan a determinadas respuestas del menor, concluyendo que, es de vital importancia para el derecho de defensa y debido proceso que, participe el abogado defensor del demandado(a) al momento de la toma de declaración del menor de edad