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National evaluation of Sure Start Local Programmes: an economic perspective

, 2011
The first 524 Sure Start local programmes (SSLPs) were established between 1999 and 2003. They were aimed at families with children up to the age of 4 living in disadvantaged areas.
Belsky, Jay, Leyland, A.H., Melhuish, Edward C.   +2 more
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Ethiopia Case Study

, 2004
This report analyzes the experience of Ethiopia with the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process. The focus of the report is on evaluating the performance of the World Bank in supporting the PRSP
Operations Evaluation Department
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Nondestructive Testing of Welded Composite Metal Foams

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
X‐ray computed tomography (CT) is used to evaluate welded steel–steel composite metal foam (CMF) joints of two density classes. It reports variation in postweld spatial void distribution and correlates it to weld‐induced changes, mechanical performance, and failure within welded CMF panels.
Chinmaya Prerana Inguva, Aman Kaushik, Afsaneh Rabiei   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Getting Less for More: Economic Evaluation in the Social Welfare Field [PDF]

Economic evaluation has an important role in helping to make decisions about the use of scarce resources in an explicit and rational manner, yet economic evaluation is not well-developed in many areas of social welfare.
Tom Sefton
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Future costs in economic evaluation: A comment on Lee

, 2008
In a recent article in this journal Lee argued that indirect medical costs should be ignored in economic evaluations. To reach this conclusion, Lee uses an unrealistic and uncommon budget constraint.
Brouwer, Werner B F, Feenstra, Talitha L, van Baal, Pieter H M, Gandjour, Afshin, Feenstra, Talitha L; id_orcid   +4 more
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Exploration of Pseudobinary Alloys (Al–Mn)‐(Co–Fe–Ni) to Design High‐Entropy and Compositionally Complex Alloys to Stabilize the τ Phase in Al–Mn‐Based Ferromagnetic Alloys

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
This experimental study investigates the thermodynamic limits of the Al–Mn τ ferromagnetic phase within complex‐composition alloys (CCAs). Using nine rare‐earth‐free compositions, it explores a broad region of the pseudobinary AlMnCoFeNi system. The results reveal intricate links between composition, phase stability, and magnetic behavior, highlighting
Sacha Plagnol‐Chauzu, Laurent Peltier, Fodil Meraghni, Stéphane Delalande, Frédéric Mazaleyrat   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Japanese value set for the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Eight Dimension (FACT-8D) cancer-specific preference-based quality of life instrument

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Purpose The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy General (FACT-G) questionnaire is frequently used to assess health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in cancer patients.
T. Shiroiwa, M. T. King, R. Campbell, T. Murata, K. Shimozuma, T. Fukuda, R. Norman   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feasibility of Nitrogen as a Carrier Gas for Inconel Cold Spray in Hydropower Application

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
N2, despite being nearly two orders of magnitude cheaper than He, is a feasible carrier gas for cold spray Inconel coatings in hydropower repair applications when higher gas temperature and pressure are used. Reducing powder size significantly improved cavitation resistance, while the addition of fine chromium carbide particles further enhanced erosion
Tianhao Wang, Mayur Pole, Tingkun Liu, Kenneth A. Ross, Christopher B. Smith   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vulnerability assessment of food imports—Conceptual framework and empirical application to the case of Switzerland

Heliyon
The world's food supply is becoming increasingly vulnerable because of rising political and climatic crises. To identify food supply vulnerabilities at an early stage, this paper proposes a multifactorial and standardized import vulnerability index (IVI).
Christian Ritzel, Anke Möhring, Albert von Ow   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of Scan Strategies in Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion on Solidification, Microstructure, and High‐Temperature Compressive Properties of γ′‐Strengthened Inconel 738LC

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Experiments and thermophysical simulations were conducted to investigate the electron beam powder bed fusion electron beam (PBF‐EB/M) process for the γ′‐strengthened nickel‐based superalloy Inconel 738LC. The results demonstrate the impact of process‐induced microstructural variations on high‐temperature mechanical behavior, providing a basis for ...
Jan Niklas Petenati, Karthik Kumar Banku, Prasanth Bondi, Ivan Zhirnov, Yangyiwei Yang, Gordon Schmidt, Jürgen Christen, Georg Hasemann, Manja Krüger, Bai‐Xiang Xu, Bilal Gökce, Silja‐Katharina Rittinghaus   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source