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The Practice and Origins of Performance Measurement: Assessing the Sunnyvale Model, 1984–2023

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Few regulatory reforms are as celebrated or emulated as the performance measurement system of Sunnyvale, California, which inspired the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 and countless other national and local efforts. This study presents the first longitudinal, cross‐programmatic analysis of a performance measurement system ...
Joyce Kasing Tagal   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nb-Doped VO<sub>2</sub>-Based Coatings on Glass: Substrate Effects, Thermochromic Performance, and an Effective Transition Temperature for Smart-Glazing Applications. [PDF]

open access: yesACS Appl Mater Interfaces
Santos AJ   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Virtues of Regulatory Criminology

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This special issue demonstrates that regulatory studies and criminology both have virtue. Regulatory criminology has neglected virtues that exceed the sum of its parts. The editors did a splendid job of pointing out in their introduction that criminology created a number of theoretical traditions that have had moments of passing value and ...
John Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite
wiley   +1 more source

Monotonic and Fatigue Strength of 3D-Printed Partially Stabilized Zirconia for Monolithic Restorations. [PDF]

open access: yesInt Dent J
Lu Y   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Information disclosure and questionnaires in public tenders

open access: yesThe Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Public tenders typically involve uncertainty and unforeseen costs, which might not be fully known to the bidders themselves. This uncertainty may also concern adaptation costs to the procurer after the delivery, and information about such adaptation costs may influence the bidding strategies, even though the cost is paid by the procurer ...
Thomas Greve, Hans Keiding
wiley   +1 more source

“Mongolians can find their feet anywhere, except in Mongolia”: Mongolian aspirations and the moral value of migrant labour in Korea

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on the narratives of Mongolians who have worked in Korea to explore the experience of migrant labour and the role work abroad plays in Mongolian identities and life projects. Four different categories of worker are discussed: those working on 3 month visas; those working illegally having overstayed their visa; contract ...
P. Chuluunbat, Richard D. G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

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