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The Challenges of Backsourcing

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public sector outsourcing sometimes ends in unexpected termination, forcing authorities to engage in backsourcing. The aim of this study is to identify the challenges posed by unexpected terminations of sourcing contracts in the public sector and analyze how actual practices in these situations diverge from theoretical expectations in the ...
Johan Berlin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stage‐Specific Indicators of Northern Yellowtail Rockfish (Sebastes flavidus) Recruitment in the California Current Ecosystem

open access: yesFisheries Oceanography, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Oceanographic and ecological conditions can be used to inform forecasts and decision‐making for marine resources, but the dominant drivers of recruitment variability remain poorly understood for many fish stocks. We developed a conceptual life‐history model of the oceanographic and ecological variables that influence the recruitment of ...
Megan L. Feddern   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Practitioners' Perceptions of Augmented and Virtual Reality in Endodontic Treatment Planning: A Pilot Study

open access: yesInternational Endodontic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To develop a streamlined software workflow for converting cone‐beam computed tomography (CBCT) data into augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) formats, and to evaluate dental practitioners' perceptions of these advanced visualisation modalities compared to conventional CBCT analysis for endodontic treatment planning.
Marcel Reymus   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“I Had Dual Feelings”: (Re)Storying With a Rural South Korean English Teacher

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes (or re‐stories) intrapersonal ideological tensions of a rural South Korean English teacher, Yeonghyeon1, as she negotiates competing discourses across local, national, and global scales within the context of a semi‐structured interview.
Ian Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

The distinctive incorporation of sociological neoinstitutionalism into Japanese sociology and its theoretical insights for the discipline

open access: yesJapanese Journal of Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 206-223, March 2025.
Abstract Although sociological neoinstitutionalist thought has made indelible imprints across the social sciences in Japan, its incorporation into Japanese sociology at large has been relatively limited, and its broader applications to analyses of global social phenomena using World Society Theory are even less prominent.
Ralph I. Hosoki
wiley   +1 more source

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