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CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source

THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into urothelial organoids via transient activation of WNT signaling. [PDF]

iScience
Qu N, Daoud A, Kechele DO, Cleary CE, Múnera JO.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

EMBODIED DATA/SUBALTERN DATAFICATION: Reimagining the Data‐Based City Through Quantified Lived Experience

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
wiley   +1 more source

A comprehensive morphological database of hognose Porthidium pitvipers (Viperidae: Crotalinae). [PDF]

Database (Oxford)
Patron-Rivero C, Yañez-Arenas C, Ruane S, Chiappa-Carrara X, Rojas-Soto OR.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Chora In Hell: The Sewer Venus, Sexual Politics, And Williams\u27 Improvisation Rome (1924) [PDF]

, 1993
Schmidt, Peter
core   +1 more source

Partisan Cities: How State‐Local Political Alignment Shapes Credit Risk and Information Processing in the Municipal Bond Market

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies how partisan alignment between city leaders and state governors shapes information processing and bond pricing in the municipal bond market. Using a novel data set on 1,045 U.S. cities from 2005 to 2019, we show that cities with the same political affiliation as the state governor face 9 basis points lower borrowing costs ...
RAMONA DAGOSTINO, ANYA NAKHMURINA
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling a Unique Posterior Cloaca Variant: Expanding the Spectrum. [PDF]

European J Pediatr Surg Rep
Govender TR, Trovalusci E, Theron A, Westgarth-Taylor C, Brisighelli G.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cloaca (osteomyelitis)

, 2015
Amir Rezaee, Calum Worsley, Dalia Ibrahim   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

A Tale of Appendages: Investigating Limb and Tail Variation in Salamanders

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We analyzed limb and tail proportions in 44% of known salamander species using a phylogenetic comparative approach. Our results revealed significant variation among families and ecological groups, with aquatic species showing longer limbs and basal lineages having shorter tails.
Giacomo Rosa, Andrea Costa, Matteo Bozzo, Sebastiano Salvidio, Sara Ferrando   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source