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Local Government Excellence Programme prospectus – overview [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The 2015 New Zealand Local Government Survey found residents and businesses had a low awareness of the full services councils provide and the value they bring.
Local Government New Zealand
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Artificial Intelligence and Mental Well‐Being in Adult Education: Implications for Practice and Professional Responsibility

open access: yesNew Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mental well‐being is central to adult learner success, yet many adult education institutions lack capacity to provide timely and accessible support. This article examines how artificial intelligence (AI) can strengthen mental health–adjacent supports in adult and continuing higher education, with attention to professional practice and ...
Adam L. McClain, Thomas Wade
wiley   +1 more source

Responding to the Impending Repossessions Crisis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper was commissioned by Communities and Local Government in November 2008 in response to the rise in repossessions. It addresses the macroeconomic and social impacts of repossessions and makes recommendations for government ...
Pryce, G.
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Learning to build sustainable communities: an interdependency network perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper explores the production of sustainable communities from an interdependency network perspective (Newton, 2001). Drawing on fieldwork that examined how planners worked collaboratively with other professionals to address the challenges of ...
Lever, John   +3 more
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Multiple Local Community Detection [PDF]

open access: yesACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 2018
Community detection is a classical problem in the field of graph mining. We are interested in local community detection where the objective is the recover the communities containing some given set of nodes, called the seed set. While existing approaches typically recover only one community around the seed set, most nodes belong to multiple communities ...
Hollocou, Alexandre   +2 more
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Validity of a Wearable Digital Insole for Assessing Gait ON and OFF in Parkinson's Disease

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Gait impairment is a distinctive symptom of Parkinson's disease that negatively impact mobility. We assessed the validity of wearable digital insoles against a validated reference gait analysis system for measuring select gait characteristics in patients with Parkinson's disease. Methods A comparative analysis between digital insoles
Deborah A. Hall   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sex Representation in US Stroke Clinical Trials: A Decade of Trends and Challenges

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Stroke remains a major cause of disability and mortality in the US, with significant sex‐based disparities, and females remain underrepresented in stroke clinical trials. We aimed to examine sex representation in US‐based stroke clinical trials, identify trial characteristics associated with higher female enrollment (≥ 50%), and ...
Chaitali Dagli   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

National Evaluation of the Capacity Building Programme in English Local Government: Overall Final Report

open access: yes, 2008
This report is one of a series of outputs from the National Evaluation of the Capacity Building Programme for local government in England (CBP), undertaken by a team of researchers at the Policy Research Institute (PRI) at Leeds Metropolitan University ...
Stevens, A   +5 more
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Jobs for communities: does local economic investment work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
New Labour's policies aimed at regenerating poor communities promote economic investment, yet research on how such investment improves employment prospects for local residents over a sustained period is scarce.
Buckner, Lisa   +3 more
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Community Detection by Local Influence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We present a new algorithm to discover overlapping communities in networks with a scale free structure. This algorithm is based on a node evaluation function that scores the local influence of a node based on its degree and neighbourhood, allowing for the identification of hubs within a network.
Nuno Cravino, Álvaro Figueira
openaire   +1 more source

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