Results 121 to 130 of about 1,076,977 (312)

Beautiful city [PDF]

open access: yes
Proponents of the City Beautiful movement advocated for sizable public investments in monumental spaces, street beautification, and classical architecture.
Gerald Carlino
core  

Successful Implementation of Environmental Policy and Governance: Understanding and Modeling Micro Governance

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Successful implementation of environmental policy and governance highly depends on the capacity to know about, build new and utilize existing governance structures. However, the theoretical tools and available methods to assess the complexity of emerging or existing structures are rather limited.
Diana Giebels   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Keeping in Touch – A Benefit of Public Holidays [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain ...
Merz, Joachim, Osberg, Lars
core   +1 more source

Winning Legitimacy and Dodging Blame: How Government Communication Shapes Media Sentiments and Responsibility Attribution in Consensus Democracies

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do governments' discursive credit‐claiming and blame‐deflection strategies shape perceived policy legitimacy in times of crisis? Despite the importance of legitimacy in conflictual times, systematic analyses of officeholders' credit‐claiming and blame‐deflection strategies and their effect on perceived legitimacy are still rare.
Céline Honegger
wiley   +1 more source

When leisure becomes excessive: a bifurcation result in endogenous growth theory [PDF]

open access: yes
The traditional assumption concerning endogenous labor supply in models of economic growth is that utility increases with leisure, independently of the specific time allocation of the representative agent observed at a given moment.
Gomes, Orlando
core   +1 more source

Appraising Policies Through Social Multi‐Criteria Evaluation: Lessons From a Systematic Review of Applications

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to renewed interest in analytical tools that address complex policy problems and move beyond linear‐rational approaches in policy appraisal, Social Multi‐Criteria Evaluation (SMCE) integrates participatory approaches with multi‐criteria analysis (MCA), thereby incorporating specialised knowledge and diverse social values and ...
Egle Basyte Ferrari
wiley   +1 more source

Restaurants Help Feed Job Growth: How the Leisure and Hospitality Industry Fared After the Recent Employment Downturn [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The most recent employment downturn was historic in many ways, but most notably, in the substantial number of jobs lost. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey show that total nonfarm employment fell by 8.7 ...
Coughlan, John
core   +1 more source

Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis: Seizure, neuropsychological, and quality of life outcomes of 100 patients treated with trans‐anterior T1 selective amygdalohippocampectomy

open access: yesEpileptic Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective For mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE with HS), laser interstitial thermal therapy has recently been increasingly used. At our institute, however, selective amygdalohippocampectomy by a trans‐anterior T1 subpial approach (trans‐anterior T1 SAH) has been used for MTLE with HS. Here, we examined the seizure,
Naotaka Usui   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Differential Soil Organic Carbon Accumulation Patterns Following Cropland-to-Grassland Conversion in Non-Saline and Saline–Alkali Soils

open access: yesAgriculture
Agricultural expansion and intensification generally lead to a depletion in soil organic carbon (SOC). While converting cropland to grassland is a recognized strategy for SOC accumulation, the patterns of SOC accumulation under different grassland types ...
Jinglei Zhang   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Baseline characteristics and feasibility of clinical outcome measures in CDKL5 deficiency disorder: The CANDID observational study

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD) is a rare X‐linked developmental and epileptic encephalopathy caused by loss‐of‐function variants in the CDKL5 gene. Preclinical experiments using enzyme replacement or gene therapies show promise and could be transformative therapies.
Xavier Liogier d'Ardhuy   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy