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Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program and Implications for US National Security. [PDF]

, 2010
This article analyzes Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program and the characteristics of the environment in which the program is nested. These characteristics include Pakistan’s history of internal and external instability; nuclear saber rattling during ...
Tkacik, Michael
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Accountable Government through Collaborative Governance? [PDF]

Administrative Sciences, 2021
Governance researchers have repeatedly discussed how to make public governance more accountable given the relatively ‘thin’ accountability of representative government. Recent decades have seen the growth of new, compensatory forms of accountability.
Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing
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Syndromic surveillance of influenza-like illness in Scotland during the influenza A H1N1v pandemic and beyond [PDF]

, 2012
Syndromic surveillance refers to the rapid monitoring of syndromic data to highlight and follow outbreaks of infectious diseases, increasing situational awareness.
Box, Buckeridge, Burkom, Centers for Disease Control Working Group, Elliot, Elliot, Farrington, Farrington, Fleischauer, General Register Office for Scotland, Health Protection Agency and Health Protection Scotland, Health Protection Scotland, Health Protection Scotland, Health Protection Scotland, Health Protection Scotland, Heffernan, Holt, Jones, Meyer, R Development Core Team, Robertson, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Television, Shmueli, Smith, Sonesson, Unkel, van den Wijngaard, Winters   +35 more
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Estimates of the Effect on the Prevalence of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage [PDF]

, 2012
The share of employers offering health coverage has generally declined in the last decade. Researchers believe that certain provisions of PPACA could affect employers’ future willingness to offer health coverage, such as the availability of subsidized ...
Government Accountability Office
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Bottling Scotland, drinking Scotland: Scotland's future, the whisky industry and leisure, tourism and public-health policy [PDF]

, 2014
Single-malt whisky is the product of over one hundred distilleries across Scotland, and is the subject of a number of claims about its status as an ‘authentic’ Scottish drink.
Bourdieu P., Cohen S., Gold J., Habermas J., Habermas J., Jayne M., Karl Spracklen, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government National Statistics, Scottish Tourism Alliance, Wilkinson R.   +11 more
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Survival Outcomes and Complications Among Canadian Children With Retinoblastoma: A Population‐Based Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine, Ofélie Trudeau‐Ferrin, Caroline Laverdière, Patrick Hamel, Rosanne Superstein, Bénédicte Koukoui, Carole Provost, Paul C. Nathan, Vijay Ramaswamy, Furqan Shaikh, Brenda Gallie, Ashwin Mallipatna, Stephanie Kletke, Helen Dimaras, Hallie Coltin   +14 more
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Adherence to Protocol Recommendations for Children With Wilms Tumour in Two Consecutive Studies in the United Kingdom and Ireland—Does Variation Matter?

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Wilms tumour (WT) has excellent event‐free and overall survival (OS). However, small differences exist between countries participating in the same international study. This led us to examine variation in adherence to protocol recommendations as a potential contributing factor.
Suzanne Tugnait, R. Al‐Saadi, A. Lopez‐Cortes, K. Dzhuma, M. Oostveen, J. Brok, S. Irtan, M. Weeks, J. Bate, S. Baker, R. Williams, M. Powis, D. Saunders, O. Olsen, T. Watson, S. Shelmerdine, S. Vaidya, L. Howell, C. Duncan, G. M. Vujanic, C. Stiller, G. P. Balchin, T. Chowdhury, K. Pritchard‐Jones   +23 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lack of Political Will: A Barrier to Public Service Delivery in South Africa and a High Cost for Citizens [PDF]

Journal of Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023
After 29 years of democracy, South Africa's public sector is in critical condition; the capacity of the public sector to meet people's needs has been called into question. This is due to poor public service delivery and frequent service delivery protests
Xolani Thusi, Ph.D., Mandisi Matyana, Ph.D. Candidate* , Nokukhanya N. Jili   +2 more
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Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations; Notice of Closing the Public Record [PDF]

, 1994
Notice_Federal_Register_041894.pdf: 96 downloads, before Oct.
U.S. Government Printing Office
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