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Organisational capacity and its relationship to research use in six Australian health policy agencies.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
There are calls for policymakers to make greater use of research when formulating policies. Therefore, it is important that policy organisations have a range of tools and systems to support their staff in using research in their work.
Steve R Makkar   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Affordable housing: Policy and practice in India

open access: yesIIMB Management Review, 2015
Affordable housing is a problem that many countries are taking stock of, world over. In India, the problem is much more stark with an estimated shortage of around 18 million houses, with 99% of this in the economically weaker sections of society.
Kalpana Gopalan, Madalasa Venkataraman
doaj   +2 more sources

A Maturity Model for Assessing the Digitalization of Public Health Agencies

open access: yesBusiness & Information Systems Engineering, 2023
Requests for a coordinated response during the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the limitations of locally-operating public health agencies (PHAs) and have resulted in a growing interest in their digitalization.
Eileen Doctor   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Detecting bid rigging in public auctions for procuring infrastructure projects: formulating the reference scenario for decision-making

open access: yesConstruction Management and Economics, 2023
Bid rigging is a fraudulent scheme in procurement auctions resulting in non-competitive bids awarded at prices above the competitive market. Bid rigging is a global problem that wastes public agencies’ resources and taxpayers’ money.
R. Signor   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Online search engines and online travel agencies: A Comparative Approach

open access: yesJournal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 2020
The present research provides insights into the complex landscape of online advertising channels to support tourism organizations in formulating their marketing strategies. People often use search engines and online travel agencies in a very similar way.
S. Angeloni, C. Rossi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Formulating octyl methoxycinnamate in hybrid lipid-silica nanoparticles: An innovative approach for UV skin protection

open access: yesHeliyon, 2020
Sunscreens have been employed on daily skin care for centuries. Their role in protecting the skin from sun damage, avoiding accelerated photoaging and even limiting the risk of development of skin cancer is unquestionable.
T. Andreani   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

DO WE STILL NEED A CONVENTION IN THE FIELD OF HARMONISATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW?

open access: yesBRICS Law Journal, 2016
The paper critically discusses the opinion of certain scholars that the use of multilateral treaties (conventions) in the field of harmonisation of international commercial law has been in a state of steady decline.
A. Korzhevskaya
doaj   +1 more source

Ideas, power and agency: policy actors and the formulation of language-in-education policy for multilingualism

open access: yesJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The processes of formulation of language policies have not been researched thoroughly. This paper aims to explore the relationship between ideas, power and agency in language policy-making and specifically with reference to the formulation of language-in-education policy for multilingualism in Ireland.
Iker Erdocia, Susanna Nocchi, Mary Ruane
openaire   +3 more sources

Project benefit management: a conceptual framework of target benefit formulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Successful realization of project benefits is strongly associated with organizational performance. Formulating project target benefits is regarded as the first and critical step in the benefit management process.
Chih, Ying-Yi, Zwikael, Ofer
core   +1 more source

Towards an evidence based alcohol policy

open access: yesSri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry, 2011
Alcohol abuse is a major problem in Sri Lanka. Alcohol policies cannot be based on religious views, political expediency or tax revenue. Pitfalls in following policies followed in developed societies without regard to the local conditions abound.
Ranil Abeyasinghe
doaj   +3 more sources

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