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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable sizing, dispatch, and resilience planning of hybrid microgrids using Arctic Puffin Optimization. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Yakout AH, Mashaal AS, Alfons AM, Metwaly AM, Hasanien HM, Sabry W, Ahmed M.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Radio telemetry of butterflies: practical insights and critical tag-weight thresholds. [PDF]

Mov Ecol
Heitzler S, Dallmöller S, Hinneberg H, Murillo-Hiller LR, Gottschalk TK.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Challenging the ‘S’ of Mayoral Strategic Authorities: Standardisation over Strategy?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Labour government's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) represents the most ambitious attempt yet to embed devolution and ‘empower communities’ across England, completing the map of devolution under mayoral strategic authorities.
Nicholas P. Sweeney
wiley   +1 more source

<i>FIAT LUX</i>: The Mullein's (<i>Verbascum</i> sp.) Image and Its Symbology Through History Within the Euro-Mediterranean Culture. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Soldovieri N, Lazzara A, Albani Rocchetti G, Bartoli F, Caneva G.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

International Tourism in the Global South: Revealing an Extractive Development Process

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Hosting international tourism remains a key development strategy for many Global South countries to generate economic growth, government revenue and employment. However, this conventional wisdom can be contested: tourism may instead be seen as an extractive process that disrupts livelihoods, ecosystems and host economies.
Julia Jeyacheya, Mark P. Hampton
wiley   +1 more source

New frontiers for unmanned aerial vehicles in planetary health research. [PDF]

BMC Glob Public Health
Bramante JT, Tarpenning MS, Woo KE, Chamberlin AJ, Coombe KD, Rosser JI.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating linkages between human movement and meteorological variables on dengue outbreaks in the Pacific Islands. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Sexton J, Russell T, Burkot TR, Craig A, Hickson RI.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández, Susagna Tubau   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source