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Treating the Symptoms, Not the Causes: What's Wrong with Demos's Report The Human Handbrake: How Whitehall Culture Holds Back Public Service Reform

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract A litany of think tank reports has critiqued Whitehall's ability to deliver policy. The latest—by Demos—locates the roots of Britain's governance woes in Whitehall's political culture. Drawing on public policy literature, we critique this report by demonstrating that Whitehall's political culture reflects the enduring structural design of ...
DARCY LUKE, NATHAN CRITCH
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating in clutter: how bumblebees optimize flight behaviour through experience. [PDF]

J Exp Biol
Jeschke M, Stahlsmeier M, Egelhaaf M, Bertrand OJN.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of background clutter on visual search in video conferencing. [PDF]

Cogn Res Princ Implic
Semizer Y, Rosenholtz R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Neutral Forms of Be as Default Forms: The Utility of Underspecification and Blocking in a Welsh Morphosyntactic Phenomenon

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
wiley   +1 more source

Development of ultrasonic model-based iterative reconstruction technique for concrete structures with corroded rebars. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Alanazi AM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Virility, fascism and regeneration in post‐Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
wiley   +1 more source

Hierarchical Local-Global Feature Fusion Network for Robust Ship Target Recognition in Complex Maritime Environment. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Liu X, Zhang S, Chen S, Li J, Luo Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
wiley   +1 more source

DRC²-Net: A Context-Aware and Geometry-Adaptive Network for Lightweight SAR Ship Detection. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Yehia A, El-Sheimy N, Helmy A, Sanad IS, Hanafy M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source