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Ōba Minako the Raconteur: Refashioning a Yamauba Tale [PDF]
, 2013 Ōba Minako (1930–2007) was captivated by the imaginative world of the mukashi-banashi (folktales) and otogi-banashi (fairy tales) of Japan and also by classical Western fairy tales, especially those by the Grimm brothers and Hans Christian Andersen. This
Wilson, Michiko N.
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With fewer young people entering public service, public employers and the corresponding trade unions aim at signaling that they offer attractive working conditions. However, in the struggle for attractive conditions, labor market conflicts occur between public employers and public sector unions when bargains fail. According to signaling theory,
Christian Heide, Florian Keppeler
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Public Health Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Despite national efforts to improve insurance coverage, access to medical care in rural U.S. communities remains limited. While insurance is a well‐established enabler of healthcare utilization, its relationship to perceived access among rural adults is underexplored.
Christian Ketel, Lisa C. Lindley
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Re‐Skilling in the Age of Skill Shortage: Adult Education Rather Than Active Labor Market Policy
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT European economies face the task of providing the necessary skills for the “twin transition” in a period of skill shortage. As a result, we may expect countries to reorient their labor market policy towards re‐skilling. We look for evidence of a reorientation in two relevant policy fields: active labor market policy (ALMP) and adult education (
Giuliano Bonoli +2 more
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The Danish National Database for Asthma: establishing clinical quality indicators
European Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2016 Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide affecting more than 300 million people. Symptoms are often non-specific and include coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath.
Susanne Hansen +8 more
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Unpacking the Multispecies Family: Predicting Pets as Family Members Using the General Social Survey
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The multispecies family has grown rapidly over the past 30 years in the United States. Scholarly understanding of pets as legitimate family members is increasing, but most work has been qualitative in nature. Statistical modeling of these dynamics has been bound by a lack of access to large‐scale, nationally representative datasets paywalled ...
Andrea Laurent‐Simpson
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Hans Christian Andersen in Trumpland [PDF]
, 2019 Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales have recently helped political and cultural observers figure out the Trump phenomenon. In post-election discussions of the Trump victory, frustrated Americans have drawn sustenance from Andersen’s fairy tale ...
Juncker, Clara
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Bubble Pinch-Off in a Rotating Flow [PDF]
, 2009 We create air bubbles at the tip of a “bathtub vortex” which reaches to a finite depth. The bathtub vortex is formed by letting water drain through a small hole at the bottom of a rotating cylindrical container.
Anders Andersen +5 more
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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Welfare states in rich democracies have returned to a more ‘disciplinary’ agenda in recent decades. This has occurred roughly simultaneously with the so‐called ‘punitive turn’ in criminal justice. We argue that it makes sense to analyse the two movements together, as manifestations of the novel concept of the ‘disciplinary state’. Empirically,
Peter Starke, Georg Wenzelburger
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Generation Inequality in an Aging Society: The Demographic Welfare Dilemma
Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study provides empirical evidence that Japanese local governments have political incentives to prioritize policies favoring the elderly population in order to secure electoral support. Such preferences may come at the expense of the younger generation, whose presence is often associated with reduced short‐term political performance.
Dachen Sheng, Heather A. Montgomery
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