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The financial crisis and recent family policy reforms in Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom : Is there a connection?

open access: yesJournal of Comparative Social Work, 2015
The turmoil created by the financial crisis and economic recession in Europe has served as an impetus for austerity measures in many countries. In this article, we ask whether these crises have also triggered reforms in family policy, and we focus on ...
Mikael Nygård   +2 more
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AutomataGPT: Transformer‐Based Forecasting and Ruleset Inference for Two‐Dimensional Cellular Automata

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
We introduce AutomataGPT, a generative pretrained transformer (GPT) trained on synthetic spatiotemporal data from 2D cellular automata to learn symbolic rules. Demonstrating strong performance on both forward and inverse tasks, AutomataGPT establishes a scalable, domain‐agnostic framework for interpretable modeling, paving the way for future ...
Jaime A. Berkovich   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social protection of young families as a factor of trust in the state: sociological view

open access: yesЦифровая социология
The institution of the family is the foundation of modern Russian society, a prerequisite for stability and well-being of the state. The article analyses the impact of state social policy on institutional trust of young family Russians on the basis of ...
K. A. Aramyan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Risk within the Northern Ireland Dairy Sector [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines farmers’ decision making under risk and uncertainty. In particular, the study identifies the type of risk preference (averse, neutral or seeking) and measures the magnitude of risk preference before and after the introduction of the ...
McErlean, Seamus   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

France: High and stable fertility

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2008
The current total fertility rate in France is around 1.9 children per woman. This is a relatively high level by current European standards and makes France an outlier, despite the fact that its other demographic trends, especially conjugal behaviour, and
Clémentine Rossier   +2 more
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A quality-index of poverty measures [PDF]

open access: yes
The multitude of available poverty measures can confuse a policy maker who wants to evaluate a poverty-reduction policy. We proposes a rule for ranking poverty measures by use of the food-gap, calculated as the cost-difference between a household’s ...
Alexander Fruman, Daniel Gottlieb
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In the Child's Best Interest: The Consequences of Losing a Lawful Immigrant Parent to Deportation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Congress is considering a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's immigration laws more than a decade after the enactment of strict immigration measures.
Catherine Barry   +2 more
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Diversity Patterns of Domestic Herbivore Viruses in China Reveal Transmission Dynamics with Disease Management Implications

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This study performs pan‐viromic profiling of 14,529 samples from 5,710 domestic herbivores across five Chinese provinces, establishing the DhCN‐Virome (1,085,360 viral metagenomes). It reveals species/sample‐specific viromic signatures and cross‐species transmission dynamics, aiding unified disease control.
Yue Sun   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Welfare state and social spending: assessing the effectiveness and the efficiency of European social policies in 22 EU countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper aims at analysing the effectiveness and the efficiency of social public expenditure in 22 European countries. We present a basic theoretical framework connecting the choice of the level of social protection to the median voter’s preferences ...
Antonelli, MARIA ALESSANDRA   +1 more
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