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Votes Count: Legislative Action on Pre-K Fiscal Year 2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Examines changes in state legislatures' budgets for pre-kindergarten programs and highlights trends in high-quality pre-K policy making and funding strategies in the face of budget shortfalls.

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Understanding Legislator Experiences of Family-Friendly Working Practices in Political Institutions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edit version of an article published in Politics and Gender.
Allen, P, Cutts, D, Winn, M
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Auditory–Tactile Congruence for Synthesis of Adaptive Pain Expressions in RoboPatients

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
In this work, we explore auditory–tactile congruence for synthesizing adaptive vocal pain expressions in robopatients. Using a robopatient platform that integrates vocal pain sounds with palpation forces, we conducted 7680 trials across 20 participants.
Saitarun Nadipineni   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Role of State Government in California Economic Growth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Part of a series that examines California's budget and its relationship to the state's economy. Examines short- and long-term growth, the role of governors and legislatures, public investment in education and infrastructure, and business ...

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Challenges and Future Directions in Assessing the Quality and Completeness of Advanced Materials Safety Data for Re‐Usability: A Position Paper From the Nanosafety Community

open access: yesAdvanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.
Nanosafety data provide a guiding example for establishing best practices in data management, aligning with FAIR principles and quality criteria. This review explores existing quality assessment approaches for reliability, relevance, and completeness, emphasizing the need for harmonization and adaptation to nanomaterials and advanced materials. The aim
Verónica I. Dumit   +43 more
wiley   +1 more source

A matching theory perspective on legislative organization: assignment of committees

open access: yesPolitical Science Research and Methods
How legislatures allocate power and conduct business are central determinants of policy outcomes. Much of the literature on parties and the committee system in legislatures examines which members serve on which committees.
Ashutosh Thakur
doaj   +1 more source

Electing Legislatures [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
A "legislature" is defined to be an assembly of at least two elected officials which selects final policy outcomes. Legislative elections therefore concern the electoral choice of such an assembly. The classical two-candidate, single-district, model of
Austen-Smith, David
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Single‐Cell Metabolic Imaging and Digital Scoring of Fat Tissue Remodeling by Label‐Free Metabolic Microscopy

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Mid‐infrared optoacoustic microscopy (MiROM) acquires lipid‐ and protein‐ associated vibrational contrast in intact fat tissue without dyes, preserving native tissue architecture. Through lateral and axial segmentation, MiROM tracks intrinsic intracellular changes during postnatal remodeling. A quantitative spatial analysis tool (Q‐SAT) maps white‐ and
Myeongseop Kim   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Europeanizing legislatures (and beyond)

open access: yesItalian Political Science, 2019
This international research project is a follow up to a previous research involving a European network of scholars in the field of legislative studies. This network has just released its first collective product – an edited volume for Springer – and is ...
Francesco Zucchini, Marco Giuliani
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No Strength in Numbers: The Failure of Big-City Bills in American State Legislatures, 1880–2000 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Do big cities exert more power than less populous ones in American state legislatures? In many political systems, greater representation leads to more policy gains, yet for most of the nation's history, urban advocates have argued that big cities face ...
GAMM, GERALD, KOUSSER, THAD
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