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Public management and essential public health functions [PDF]
The authors provide an overview of how different approaches to improving public sector management relate to so-called core or essential public health functions, such as disease surveillance, health education, monitoring and evaluation, workforce ...
Das Gupta Monica, Khaleghian, Peyvand
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Lessons from primary school students' perceptions of the factors that influence school connectedness
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract School connectedness is critical to improving students' health, development and wellbeing. Research into primary school students' perceptions of the factors that influence their sense of connectedness is essential for identifying practices that promote success.
Jordana F. Hoenig, Therese M. Cumming
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Pollution control and the rule of law. [PDF]
, 1995 The thesis is an attempt to apply the rule of law to pollution control, the aim being to discover whether one form of environmental regulation can be regarded as more constitutionally legitimate than another.
Hilson, Christopher
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In England, education is compulsory, but schooling is not: it is legal for families to home educate their children. This form of education is officially termed by the Department for Education as ‘Elective Home Education’. As this designation implies, many families home educate as a positive and preferential ‘choice’.
Katherine Davey +3 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Character education research is often constrained by blunt methodological tools. Surveys capture breadth without depth; case studies offer richness but lack replicability; and randomised controlled trials (RCTs), though indispensable at the policy level, are costly, disruptive and ill‐suited to everyday practice with individual pupils.
Shane McLoughlin
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The Environmental Enforcement in the Civil and the Common Law Systems. A Case on the Economic Effects of Legal Institutions [PDF]
This paper aims to give a comparative analysis on the different enforcement approaches in respect to both civil and common law systems (i.e. Europe vs. USA) by analyzing some crucial aspects of their underlying normative systems.
Anna Rita Germani
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Conceitos de regulação em saúde no Brasil
Revista de Saúde PúblicaSão revisados os conceitos de regulação em saúde empregados em publicações científicas nacionais sobre gestão em saúde. Elaborou-se uma tipologia para os conceitos de regulação a partir das ideias mais correntes em cinco disciplinas: ciências da vida ...
Robson Rocha de Oliveira +1 more
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The evidence base for ranger patrol effectiveness in conservation and how to improve it
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ranger patrols are a cornerstone of wildlife protection efforts around the world and occur across all ecological governance systems. Evidence that patrols reduce threats to wildlife and enable their recovery has not been systematically examined previously.
Trina Rytwinski +19 more
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Firms formation and growth in the model with heterogeneous agents and monitoring
In this article we extend the agent-based model of firms’ formation and growth proposed in [4]. In [4] the firms‘ creation, expansion or contraction results from the interaction of heterogeneous utility maximizers.
Petr Svarc, Peter Marko
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Corruption, Extortion, and the Boundaries of the Law [PDF]
We consider a set-up in which a principal must decide whether or not to legalise a socially undesirable activity. The law is enforced by a monitor who may be bribed to conceal evidence of the offence and who may also engage in extortionary practices. The
Svetlana Andrianova, Nicolas Melissas
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