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Representing disabling experiences: Rethinking quality of life when evaluating public health interventions

Politics &Policy, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 41-58, February 2023., 2023
Abstract Interventions that promote public health have the potential to transform lives, particularly for those who experience disability, where marked social and material inequalities occur across the life‐course. When evaluating such interventions, health‐related quality‐of‐life is regarded as a primary outcome and used to inform evidence‐based ...
Karl Atkin, Maria Berghs, Sangeeta Chattoo   +2 more
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A deep Generative Artificial Intelligence system to predict species coexistence patterns

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 5, Page 1052-1061, May 2022., 2022
Abstract Predicting coexistence patterns is a current challenge to understand diversity maintenance, especially in rich communities where these patterns' complexity is magnified through indirect interactions that prevent their approximation with classical experimental approaches.
Johannes Hirn, José Enrique García, Alicia Montesinos‐Navarro, Ricardo Sánchez‐Martín, Veronica Sanz, Miguel Verdú   +5 more
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A South‐to‐South Cultural Adaptation of an Evidence‐Based Parenting Program for Families in the Philippines

Family Process, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 1202-1216, December 2021., 2021
Rates of child maltreatment are higher in low‐ and middle‐income countries due to risk factors such as social inequities, economic adversity, and sociocultural norms. Given the evidence showing the effectiveness of parenting interventions to prevent child maltreatment, this study embarked on a cultural adaptation of an evidence‐based parenting program ...
Bernice Landoy Mamauag, Liane Peña Alampay, Jamie M. Lachman, Bernadette J. Madrid, Judy Hutchings, Catherine L. Ward, Frances Gardner   +6 more
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Explaining Policy Success Using the Multiple Streams Framework: Political Success Despite Programmatic Failure of the Solar Energy Policy in Gujarat, India

Politics &Policy, Volume 49, Issue 5, Page 1021-1060, October 2021., 2021
Although many scholars have studied policy success and failure, the relationship of these phenomena to the policy process—essential for an explanatory or anticipatory analysis—remains unclear. I address this gap by linking the policy success heuristic with the multiple streams framework (MSF) and developing hypotheses to explain outcomes.
Nihit Goyal
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Developing multiscale and integrative nature–people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework

People and Nature, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 1172-1195, December 2020., 2020
Abstract Scientists have repeatedly argued that transformative, multiscale global scenarios are needed as tools in the quest to halt the decline of biodiversity and achieve sustainability goals. As a first step towards achieving this, the researchers who participated in the scenarios and models expert group of the Intergovernmental Science‐Policy ...
Laura M. Pereira, Kathryn K. Davies, Eefje den Belder, Simon Ferrier, Sylvia Karlsson‐Vinkhuyzen, HyeJin Kim, Jan J. Kuiper, Sana Okayasu, Maria G. Palomo, Henrique M. Pereira, Garry Peterson, Jyothis Sathyapalan, Machteld Schoolenberg, Rob Alkemade, Sonia Carvalho Ribeiro, Alison Greenaway, Jennifer Hauck, Nicholas King, Tanya Lazarova, Federica Ravera, Nakul Chettri, William W. L. Cheung, Rob J. J. Hendriks, Grigoriy Kolomytsev, Paul Leadley, Jean‐Paul Metzger, Karachepone N. Ninan, Ramon Pichs, Alexander Popp, Carlo Rondinini, Isabel Rosa, Detlef van Vuuren, Carolyn J. Lundquist, Benis Egoh   +33 more
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Una taxonomía del problema de distribución de planta por procesos y sus métodos de solución

Industrial Data, 2013
El problema de distribución de planta se puede generalizar como un caso de optimización combinatoria intensamente estudiado y por lo tanto su naturaleza es un NP-difícil.
Máximo Leyva, David Mauricio, Julio Salas Bacalla   +2 more
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Um método heurístico baseado em programação dinâmica para o problema de corte bidimensional guilhotinado restrito A heuristic method based on dynamic programming for the constrained two-dimensional guillotine cutting problem

Gestão & Produção, 2002
Neste artigo estudamos um caso particular dos problemas de corte, denominado problema bidimensional guilhotinado restrito (PGR). O PGR é um problema NP-difícil que aparece em diversos processos industriais de corte de chapas retangulares, em particular ...
Rejane Joas Silveira, Reinaldo Morabito
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Variabilidad interobservador. Analizando algunas fuentes de error: heurísticas y categorizaciones

Red U, 2012
La educación médica ha intentado aprovechar la capacidad de observación humana para evaluar el desempeño de sus profesionales y estudiantes. Las herramientas de evaluación basadas en observadores han demostrado por un lado tener fortalezas en cuanto a su
Alberto Alves de Lima
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Relocalización de vehículos en servicios de emergencias médicas: una revisión

Ingeniería y Ciencia, 2016
Este artículo presenta una revisión de la literatura de los estudios realizados sobre problemas de relocalización de vehículos de los Servicios de Emergencias Médicas, SEM.
Alma K Rodríguez Q., Gloria M Osorno O., Pablo A Maya D.   +2 more
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There Is Always a Bigger Fish. Determinants of Power Perceptions in Swiss Biodiversity Policy

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) views power as crucial in policy processes, but the nature of coalition power, its determinants, and how to empirically measure it remain understudied. In this article, we use a mixed method approach and social network analysis to explore power relationships in the biodiversity policy subsystem in ...
Alix d'Agostino, Jascha Egli, Daniel Kübler   +2 more
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