Results 61 to 70 of about 104,152,810 (171)

Evolving Contexts and Diverging Strategies: Federalism and the Politics of Immigrant Welfare Exclusion in the US

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT The intersection of immigration and welfare has taken a central stage in the politics of social policy and garnered increasing scholarly attention in welfare politics research. While prior research has examined how immigration affects welfare support and welfare generosity in the US, less is known about the determinants of immigrant‐related ...
Ping Xu, Ling Zhu, Sebastian Ege
wiley   +1 more source

Detection and Estimation of Abrupt Changes contaminated by Multiplicative Gaussian Noise [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
The problem of abrupt change detection has received much attention in the literature. The Neyman Pearson detector can be derived and yields the well-known CUSUM algorithm, when the abrupt change is contaminated by an additive noise.
Jean-Yves Tourneret   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Social Diseases and Social Problems: An Islamic Framework for Cultural Awareness And Social Diagnosis

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 4, November 2026.
Despite decades of policy interventions, the world suffers from profound social problems including drug abuse, family breakdown, and systemic injustice. The research problem is the persistent gap in existing sociological theories: objective criteria lacking for diagnosing social harm before it becomes visible.
Jilani Ben Touhami Meftah
wiley   +1 more source

The development of multiplicative thinking in young children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This paper describes developmental changes as children move from additive to multiplicative thinking. Five broad phases through which multiplicative thinking develops were synthesised from the research.
Jacob, L., Willis, S.
core  

Operationalizing Patient Experience Data as a System Feedback Asset in Learning Health Systems: Learnings From Model of Care Redesign at Trillium Health Partners

open access: yesLearning Health Systems, Volume 10, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Learning Health Systems (LHS) offer a pathway to continuously improve care by integrating data and lived experience, yet few practical examples demonstrate how LHS can be operationalized in hospital settings in ways that embed the voices of patients and families.
Umair Majid   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interval multiplicative transitivity for consistency, missing values and priority weights of interval fuzzy preference relations

open access: yes, 2010
In this paper, the concept of multiplicative transitivity of a fuzzy preference relation, as defined by Tanino [T. Tanino, Fuzzy preference orderings in group decision-making, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 12 (1984) 117-131], is extended to discover whether an ...
BORAN, FATİH EMRE   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Equitable Patient and Public Involvement Strategies for Scaling Health and Social Care Interventions: A Consensus Study Inspired by Delphi Methods

open access: yesHealth Expectations, Volume 29, Issue 5, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Patient and public involvement (PPI) is recognized as essential for scaling interventions in health and social services, but there are few guidelines to support it. We sought consensus on strategies for involving patients and the public in scaling in an equitable and meaningful way.
Roberta de Carvalho Corôa   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disaster Relief Through a Complex Adaptive System Perspective: Firms' Motivations, Activities, and the Role of Operations Adaptability in Overlapping Landscapes

open access: yesJournal of Business Logistics, Volume 47, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Natural disasters disrupt the normal functioning of both communities and businesses. However, past literature often segregates the disaster relief view from the business continuity perspective, leaving a gap in understanding how firms can proactively support relief efforts.
Thu Trang Hoang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Confusion to Clarity: A Multi‐Stage Process Framework for Understanding Consumer Confusion

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 25, Issue 5, Page 2720-2746, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes consumer confusion as a multi‐stage temporal process rather than a static outcome, addressing theoretical fragmentation in existing antecedent‐consequence models. By integrating cognitive appraisal, contextual amplification, and adaptive coping within a unified framework, we explain how confusion unfolds rather than
Fatih Celik, Erdogan Koc
wiley   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy