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Dual Pathways of Loneliness in the Marketplace: Emotional Attachment, Empowerment, and Evaluations of Brand Warmth and Brand Competence

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Loneliness shapes consumer behavior, yet whether it increases preference for warm or competent brands remains unresolved. We argue that this question cannot be answered without distinguishing who is perceived to be lonely. Individual loneliness, which is a person's subjective experience of social disconnection, activates agency‐restoration ...
Aulona Ulqinaku   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Survey to assess the economic stability and mental health of households with people receiving enteral and parenteral nutrition

open access: yesNutrition in Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The landscape of nutrition support faces challenges, including rising costs, product shortages, reimbursement gaps, and infusion providers closing. This nationwide survey aimed to describe the perceptions and attitudes related to costs, therapy access, and mental health among households with at least one family member requiring ...
Gabriela Gardner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rural young people's opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship in globalised southern Africa: The limitations of targeting policies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper is based on a study with rural young people in Malawi and Lesotho, focusing on their possibilities for accessing (self)employment in the face of the various constraints imposed by their poor rural situations.
Ansell, N   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Righting Past Wrongs Through Restorative Justice: Managerial Motivations for Collaboration

open access: yesNonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nonprofits are crucial to state collaborations as their embedded nature in communities allows them to gain the trust necessary to facilitate change and enhance strengths. As nonprofits collaborate with the public sector to tackle systemic challenges, understanding managerial motivations for collaboration and implications for social change is ...
Kara L. Lawrence   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local search for stable marriage problems

open access: yes, 2010
The stable marriage (SM) problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals, to matching students to schools, or more generally to any two-sided market.
Gelain, M.   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Explains how girls' welfare affects overall economic and social outcomes. Outlines steps to disaggregate health, education, and other data by age and gender; invest strategically in girls' programs; and ensure equitable benefits for girls in all ...
Caren Grown   +3 more
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Reflections on Comparative Teaching in Public Administration

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article integrates our scholarly experience of teaching comparative public administration. In doing so, we offer a unique perspective as the co‐authors carry several diverse attributes, among them their countries of origin, current country in which they are teaching, and their academic experience.
Kim Moloney   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

I'll Marry You If You Get Me a Job: Cross-Nativity Marriages and Immigrant Employment Rates [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper tests whether marriage to a native affects the probability that an immigrant is employed. We provide a theoretical background which explains how marriage to a native may positively or negatively affect an immigrant's employment probability ...
Delia Furtado, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
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Why Active Representation Varies: Cultural Stereotypes and Differential Treatment by Street‐Level Bureaucrats

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do cultural stereotypes influence the likelihood that minority street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) will actively represent marginalized subgroups within their ethnocultural community? While existing scholarship on representative bureaucracy has focused on the conditions under which minority SLBs engage in active representation, this study ...
Sohad Amaria, Einat Lavee, Nissim Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Transforming aquatic agricultural systems towards gender equality: a five country review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Aquatic agricultural systems (AAS) are systems in which the annual production dynamics of freshwater and/or coastal ecosystems contribute significantly to total household income.
Chiuta, T.M.   +11 more
core  

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