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Enhancing Flight Connectivity via Synchronization of Arrivals and Departures in Hub Airports with Evolutionary and Swarm-Based Metaheuristics. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Demir HI, Dervis S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Pulling Down the Hierarchy

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper is about the hierarchy view: that each word has infinitely many meanings, arranged into levels, with the level n meaning serving as its semantic value when it occurs embedded to degree n in indirect or attitude reporting verbs. Departing from the famous debates over the bare tenability of the hierarchy view, I focus on whether there
Mark McCullagh
wiley   +1 more source

Issue Attention in Public Opinion Polls: Pollsters as Agenda Responders and Agenda Setters

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polling organizations, like other policy actors, must prioritize certain issues. We argue that, for normative and financial reasons, pollsters prioritize issues that are viewed as important by other institutions and the public, leading them to focus survey questions on issues that are on congressional and media agendas, and which are public ...
Qian Zhang, Christopher Witko, Peter K. Enns   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Balancing Between Extremes: Goal Ambiguity‐Based Strategies to Contain Goal Displacement in Regulatory Enforcement Agencies

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is growing evidence of the occurrence of several types of goal displacement in regulatory enforcement agencies. A major underlying determinant of these phenomena is the neglect of ambiguities characterizing the goals of these agencies.
Kees Huizinga, Martin de Bree
wiley   +1 more source

When Regulation Travels: Distrust and Disrespect

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Endeavoring to avoid the pitfalls of being too trusting of regulated entities' compliance claims, regulators sometimes create regulatory systems with elaborate requirements for verification. But as these accountability and verification regimes attempt to circumvent one set of problems, they may inadvertently create others.
Carol A. Heimer
wiley   +1 more source

Powers and Practices in Labor Standards Enforcement

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wage theft remains a pervasive problem internationally and within the United States. In response, worker advocates have sought stronger laws to deter violations and promote compliance. Yet formal authority alone may be insufficient; labor departments often fail to use the full extent of their legal authority to conduct vigorous enforcement ...
Daniel J. Galvin, Hana Shepherd, Jenn Round, Jake Barnes, Janice Fine   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening Trust by Design: A QCA Study of Design Choices in Regulatory Regimes

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can the design of regulatory regimes foster trust in those regimes? In food safety, finance, and data protection regulation, regulatory frameworks have been reformed to restore trust after regulatory failures. Using fuzzy‐set qualitative comparative analysis, this paper seeks to identify how key design choices—centralization of ...
Koen Verhoest, Martino Maggetti, Bastiaan Redert, Dominika Latusek, Jacint Jordana   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Assumptions in Causal Thought: Poverty and Perversity

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Causal attributions, framings, and ideas shape moral judgments. Sociologists have long highlighted these causality‐to‐morality processes, showing how causality underpins blame and moral responsibility. The reverse process of morality‐to‐causality, where moral assumptions influence causal attributions, has been studied less.
Lukas Posselt
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptional Welfare Boundary for Migrant Families in China: What, Where and How?

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite recent reforms to China's hukou system, internal migrants in urban centres continue to face significant barriers in accessing welfare benefits and public services. This study introduces the concept of the perceptional welfare boundary to explain how welfare exclusion persists beyond formal institutional constraints.
Qiaobing Wu, Shirley Yang
wiley   +1 more source

On language, (inter)disciplinarity, and collaboration with local scholars in Papua New Guinea environmental anthropology

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract How can anthropologists ensure the accuracy of the statements they make in their publications, especially in an era of ever increasing budgetary and bureaucratic pressures that limit the duration of fieldwork? What should the role of language abilities be in this context and to what degree is it necessary to learn the language of the place ...
Mark Collins, Tukul Walla Kaiku
wiley   +1 more source