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Competence Development and Evaluation Dynamics in the Context of Learning

Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Organizations operating in high‐risk environments rely on learning from real incidents, yet how evaluation practices contribute to competence development and organizational learning remains insufficiently understood. This challenge is evident in police operations, where decisions made under uncertainty have immediate implications for safety ...
Ensieh Roud, Riana Steen, Marita Aune
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Adopting an Integrated Strategy in Local Policy Design: Agenda Content Diversity, Policy Capacities, and Policy Feedback Effects in Urban Policies as Multi‐Level Policy Mixes: The Urban Dimension of the European Union Cohesion Policy in Spain (1994–2020)

European Policy Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 1, Winter 2026.
ABSTRACT Policy integration is seen as an appropriate strategy to address urban problems and promote sustainable urban development objectives. The European Union (EU) has been including this strategy as an essential aspect of its urban initiatives since the 1990s.
María José Dorado‐Rubín, Clemente J. Navarro, María José Guerrero‐Mayo   +2 more
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Non‐State Regulators? Civil Society as Extension of the State in a Context of a Regularization Scheme for Undocumented Migrants

European Policy Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 1, Winter 2026.
ABSTRACT “Opération Papyrus” was implemented in the Swiss Canton of Geneva between 2017 and 2018 with the aim of granting residence permits to undocumented migrants who met pre‐established criteria. This program serves as an exemplary case of involving nongovernmental actors to facilitate what were originally state‐controlled procedures.
Jan‐Erik Refle, Adela Sanela Elezovic, Claudine Burton‐Jeangros, Yves Jackson   +3 more
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Negotiating Centralization: How Local Networks Reshaped Scotland's National Care Service Reform

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Centralizing reforms frequently diverge from their original designs, yet the processes through which this divergence occurs remain insufficiently understood. This article examines Scotland's National Care Service reform (2021–2025), a major recentralization that underwent significant modification following sustained engagement from local ...
Awais Mashkoor
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Legislative Attention and Nonprofit Efficiency: A Link Across Sectoral Boundaries

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Government attention matters for nonprofit management and nonprofit‐government interactions. This study focuses on legislative attention, an important yet less‐studied aspect of government attention in public policy research, and examines its impact on nonprofit efficiency.
Yuhao Ba, Jessica Berrett, Jason Coupet
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UTILIZATION OF AGROINDUSTRIALES RESIDUES AS BIOFUELS AND BIOREFINERY

Biotecnología en el Sector Agropecuario y Agroindustrial, 2014
The use of residues generated in the process agro-industrials are interest worldwide. At present, research is this in lignocellulosic biomass for energy, fuels, chemicals and biomaterials through clean technologies and closed systems that conserve the ...
Deyanira Muñoz-Muñoz, Alvaro Javier Pantoja-Matta, Milton Fernando Cuatin-Guarin   +2 more
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Production and purification of outer membrane vesicles encapsulating green fluorescent protein from Escherichia coli: a step towards scalable OMV technologies

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are spherical structures that contain a small fraction of the periplasm of Gram-negative bacteria, surrounded by its outer membrane.
Julian Daniel Torres-Vanegas, Nicolas Rincon-Tellez, Nicolas Rincon-Tellez, Paula Guzmán-Sastoque, Juan D. Valderrama-Rincon, Juan C. Cruz, Juan C. Cruz, Luis H. Reyes   +7 more
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Systematic Identification of Native Bacillus spp. as a Sustainable Approach to Mitigate Cadmium in Cocoa

Food Frontiers, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2026.
Native Bacillus spp. isolated from cocoa fermentations demonstrate cadmium resistance and removal capabilities. Through a multidisciplinary approach combining genomics, metagenomics, electron microscopy and functional assays, we identified promising strains for sustainable cadmium bioremediation, offering a natural strategy to improve cocoa safety and ...
Miguel Fernández‐Niño, Juan Fernando Meza, Claudia M. Rodríguez‐López, Maria Camila Buitrago‐Acosta, Diana M. Cortes‐Mera, María José Chica, Jorge Duitama, Duvan Albeiro Millan, Andrés Díaz‐García, Eddy J. Bautista, Andrés Fernando González Barrios   +10 more
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Embracing the politics of transformation: Policy action as “battle‐settlement events”

Review of Policy Research, Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Societal transformations for addressing climate change are intensely contested and at risk of resistance and backlash to ambitious policy action. But they are frequently modeled through heuristics such as S‐curves which abstract from such conflicts, assuming increasing returns to scale as a driver of transformations.
James Patterson, Matthew Paterson
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Breve revisión del uso de microalgas para la remoción de contaminantes emergentes en aguas residuales

Gestión y Ambiente, 2020
Los tratamientos convencionales no remueven de forma eficiente los contaminantes emergentes en aguas residuales. Esto ha motivado la investigación en nuevas tecnologías con microalgas.
Juan Andrés Sandoval, Miguel Alfonso Morales-Granados, Diego Rubio   +2 more
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