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Shadow writing and participant observation : a study of criminal justice social work around sentencing [PDF]

, 2008
The study of decision-making by public officials in administrative settings has been a mainstay of law and society scholarship for decades. The methodological challenges posed by this research agenda are well understood: how can socio-legal researchers ...
Burns, Nicola, Halliday, Simon, Hutton, Neil, McNeil, F., Tata, Cyrus   +4 more
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Testing A Personalized Approach to Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Older Veterans

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective We aimed to test the efficacy of personalized treatment of older Veterans with chronic low back pain (CLBP) delivered by Aging Back Clinics (ABC) as compared with usual care (UC). Methods Two hundred ninety‐nine Veterans age 65‐89 with CLBP from 3 VA medical centers underwent baseline testing, randomization to ABC or UC and 12 months follow ...
Debra K. Weiner, Angela Gentili, Meika A. Fang, Edward Garay, Laura Lawson, Lenore Joseph, Cathy C. Lee, Michelle I. Rossi, Beverly Thorn, Subashan Perera   +9 more
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El sistema de evaluación de la actividad investigadora de profesores universitarios

REDUR. Revista Electrónica de Derecho Universidad de La Rioja, 2015
As originally established in the law, the technical discretion exercised by specialized administrative bodies was not subject to complete legal control due to these advisory bodies would be only limited to ascertain the qualities or data to be carried by
Antonio Jesús Sánchez Rodríguez
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Expulsion of aliens, nonrefoulement and issues related to (administrative) discretion

Institutiones Administrationis, 2021
One of the outcomes of the 2015–2016 migration crisis in the EU is the urgent need perceived to enhance the effectiveness of forced return procedures, including administrative expulsion. However, given the core human rights obligation of non-refoulement,
Terezie Boková, Radislav Bražina
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The Value of Discretion [PDF]

, 2012
[Excerpt] In Shakespeare’s Henry IV, the lazy and lecherous Sir John Falstaff is attacked during battle, falls to the ground, and feigns his death. Falstaff attempts to justify his act of cowardice by explaining: “The better part of valor is discretion ...
Bertagna, Blake R.
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At‐Home Early Diagnosis of Mastitis: Calibration‐Free Analysis of Sodium to Potassium Ratio in Breast Milk

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
MAMAWEL is introduced as the first calibration‐free potentiometric sensor for at‐home mastitis diagnosis. By measuring the sodium‐to‐potassium ratio in breast milk, the device reliably differentiates between healthy and mastitis‐affected samples with less than 10% error.
Ali Soleimani, Farbod Amirghasemi, Melissa Banks, Abdulrahman Al‐Shami, Sina Khazaee Nejad, Abdalrhman Sheer, Clare Dominique Sanchez, Haozheng Ma, Daniel Vargas Ramos, Maral P.S. Mousavi   +9 more
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Administrative Discretion in the Investigation of Industrial Accidents and Administrative Investigations in Cases of Violations of State Regulatory Requirements for Occupational Health and Safety

Сибирское юридическое обозрение
The participation of the public administration in the investigation of accidents is interconnected with the proceedings on administrative offenses regarding state regulatory requirements for occupational health and safety.
A. V. Terekhova
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Electrochemical Biosensor for Rapid Detection of Acute Rejection in Kidney Transplants

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A low‐cost, rapid electrochemical immunosensor coated with a novel antifouling nanocomposite enables single‐step, dual‐biomarker profiling directly from unprocessed urine. Application in a clinical study shows accurate discrimination of acute rejection in kidney transplants from other acute kidney injuries via machine learning.
Rohit Gupta, Nikolaos Salaris, Ashish Kalkal, Fernando Yuen Chang, Maryam Javed, Azhar Ali Khan, Priya Mandal, Stavroula Balabani, Reza Motallebzadeh, Manish K. Tiwari   +9 more
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Citizen Suit Attorney Fee Shifting Awards: A Critical Examination of Government-“Subsidized” Litigation [PDF]

, 1984
Silicon Carbide (SiC) is an important wide band gap semiconductor with outstanding electronic properties. With figures of merit far better than silicon, SiC is believed to replace and outcompete silicon in many applications using high frequencies, high ...
Fein, Bruce
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Numerical and Experimental Methods for Estimating the Propagation Loss in Microphotonic Waveguides

Advanced Photonics Research, EarlyView.
Finite‐element finite‐difference time domain, eigenmode‐expansion, and volume‐current simulations are benchmarked against cut‐back, ring‐resonator, and OFDR measurements to quantify waveguide propagation loss in integrated photonic circuits. Scattering, absorption, leakage, and back‐reflection contributions are dissected; error sources are ranked; and ...
Francesco Dell’Olio, Samuel M. Hörmann, Teresa Natale, Roel Baets, Alexander Bergmann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source