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Beyond Simplification in Public Sector Accountability: Contradictions Between Principal‐Agent and Complexity Theories

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This conceptual study explores the complexity of public sector accountability, traditionally framed by principal‐agent theory (PAT), which simplifies relationships through rigid contracts. The findings reveal how PAT's assumptions often misalign with the intricate realities of public sector accountability, which are better explained by ...
Tomi Rajala, Harri Jalonen
wiley   +1 more source

Organizational and Individual Factors of Evidence Informed Policy Making in Public Organizations

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding the use of evidence by public organizations and public officials is a key issue for public administration scholars and practitioners. In this study, we examine how individual‐ and organizational‐level factors relate to evidence informed policy making.
Pieter Raymaekers   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Homotypic SCOTIN assemblies form ER-endosome membrane contacts and regulate endosome dynamics. [PDF]

open access: yesEMBO Rep, 2023
Yun H   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

SU(2) WZW D-BRANES AND QUANTIZED WORLD-VOLUME U(1) FLUX ON S2 [PDF]

open access: green, 2000
Alexander Kling   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Arsenic content and exposure in brown rice compared to white rice in the United States

open access: yesRisk Analysis, EarlyView.
Abstract Brown rice is often considered a healthy alternative to white rice due to the additional nutrients contained within the rice bran. However, the proposition of improved health outcomes by replacing white rice with brown rice in diets ignores a potential food safety concern: arsenic exposure.
Christian Kelly Scott, Felicia Wu
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphors and the Invention of Writing

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The foundation of ancient, invented writing systems lies in the predominant iconicity of their sign shapes. However, these shapes are often used not for their referential meaning but in a metaphorical way, whereby one entity stands for another.
Ludovica Ottaviano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stable non-BPS D-branes of type I [PDF]

open access: hybrid, 2000
A. Lerda   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

Fetal glucose availability: a key regulator of the metabolic, hormonal and contractility profiles of the fetal sheep heart

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend To investigate the role of glucose availability in fetal left ventricle (LV) development, this study assessed whether maternal late gestation undernutrition (LGUN; 50% of Control diet) induced alterations in the contractility, metabolic, and hormonal profile can be ameliorated in LGUN fetuses receiving glucose infusion (LGUN+G ...
Melanie R. Bertossa   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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