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Frayed Rope and Resilient Threads: Fijian Healthcare and the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In April 2021, Fiji faced international scrutiny due to ‘horrific’ hospital conditions, including staff and patients lacking food, non‐operational operating theatres, and critical shortages of beds, medicine, and equipment. After successfully avoiding a major outbreak in 2020, a sudden surge in COVID‐19 cases in 2021 overwhelmed the public ...
Sharon McLennan, Johanna Thomas‐Maude, Apisalome Movono, Akisi Ravono   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Threats to Academic Freedom in Venezuela: Legislative Im-positions and Patterns of Discrimination Towards University Teachers and Students

Interdisciplinary Political Studies, 2017
The article describes the increasing threats to academic freedom and autonomy in Venezuelan universities as democracy becomes weakened and economic and social conditions deteriorate.
Mayda Gabriela Hocevar, David Augusto Gomez, Nelson Jose Rivas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
wiley   +1 more source

Data‐driven thresholds for standardized classification of severe Alzheimer's disease neuropathology using digital neuropathology

Brain Pathology, EarlyView.
We generated digital pathologic algorithms (AI‐based modules that can be freely shared) to: optimize the sampling (ROI) for diagnosis of ADNC‐related tau pathology; compare/transition between Aperio and HALO platforms; and rationalize severe Braak NFT staging, so that all Braak‐VI cases had dementia, and all Braak‐V cases had MCI or dementia.
Ryan K. Shahidehpour, Allison M. Neltner, Mitchell A. Klusty, Cole Corbett, Angelique D. Gonzalez, David A. Gutman, David W. Fardo, Adam D. Bachstetter, Cody Bumgardner, Margaret E. Flanagan, Peter T. Nelson   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Older and wiser? The impact of CEO age on firm’s tax amnesty participation

Cogent Business & Management
The objective of this research is to examine the potential impact of CEO age on the involvement of companies in tax amnesty programs among publicly traded companies in Indonesia. With differing opinions on how age affects risk-taking behavior, this study
Gatot Soepriyanto, Arfian Erma Zudana, Meiryani Meiryani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Amnesty [PDF]

, 2016
The topic of amnesty is a vital one in transitional justice scholarship. As a political tool it has historically provided the state the means to suppress dissent, compromise with its enemies, as well as to protect its own state agents implicated in crimes. Amnesty originates from the Greek word amnestia, which means ‘forgetfulness’ or ‘oblivion’.
openaire   +2 more sources

Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
wiley   +1 more source

Reflecting on the Contradictory Condition of Digital Experiences: Advancing Algorithmic Literacy With Young People

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on young people's use of digital devices and platforms demonstrates that their online experiences are deeply situated and contextual, shaped both by individual circumstances and by algorithmically driven systems that personalise content and mediate engagement.
Kaitlyn Regehr, Katharine Smales, Photini Vrikki, Caitlin Shaughnessy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Universalism: an 11‐year longitudinal study

Economica, EarlyView.
Abstract How individuals make trade‐offs between socially proximate or distant groups impacts upon a wide range of social, political and economic behaviours. This paper exploits Norwegian administrative register data over the 2012–2022 period to assess whether, and if so how, such ‘(moral) universalism’ develops as individuals age and go through major ...
Christine Bangum, Benny Geys, Rune Sørensen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unprincipled Principals in the Accountability Chain: Autonomy and Political Control Within Tax Administration in a Developing Country Context

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT SDG 16 emphasizes the need for accountable institutions, often based on the assumption that public officials are accountable to politicians, who in turn are accountable to citizens. However, in many developing countries, neopatrimonial governance can weaken this accountability chain, as politicians themselves may act as “unprincipled ...
Edidiong Bassey, Emer Mulligan
wiley   +1 more source