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Assessing the integration of social marketing principles in ivory demand management interventions in China and Southeast Asia

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Consumer demand for ivory perpetuates the unsustainable and illegal killing of African elephants and other wildlife species. Interventions that aim to change consumer behavior are increasingly recognized as a crucial element of demand management. However, poor design and implementation have limited their effectiveness.
Molly R. C. Brown, Victoria K. Wells, Colin M. Beale   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emotion and the Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Affective Dynamics Perspective

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive evidence that emotion and cognition are deeply intertwined, the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) lacks an analytically independent emotional mechanism in its causal architecture—an omission that may be particularly consequential in policy subsystems structured around morally charged, identity‐laden policy disputes.
Moshe Maor
wiley   +1 more source

An empirical study of continuous process improvement (CPI) regarding public management in Spanish municipalities

Administración & Desarrollo, 2011
La lógica de la modernización y mejora de la gestión pública sustentada en la aplicación de la Mejora Continua de Procesos (MCP) fue adquirida por algunos ayuntamientos españoles desde finales de la década de los ochenta y principios de los noventa, todo
Manuel Francisco Suarez Barraza, Tamyco Ysa   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Forwarding forest restoration: Seven key socio‐ecological issues for advancing forest restoration in a world in flux

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 569-581, March 2026.
Abstract Restoring forests can help conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate change and enhance human well‐being. Despite financial and political support for global forest restoration initiatives, projects continue to face persistent challenges and trade‐offs between environmental, climatic and socio‐economic goals.
Mariana Hernandez‐Montilla, Katie Devenish, Lucas Alencar, Rayna Benzeev, Pooja Choksi, Ida N. S. Djenontin, Matthew E. Fagan, Harry Fischer, Paola Isaacs Cubides, Thais Linhares Juvenal, Matilda Kabutey‐Ongor, Judith Kamoto, Andrew Kinzer, David Kroeker‐Maus, Stephanie Mansourian, Felipe Melo, Daniel C. Miller, Sandy Nofyanza, Adithya Pradeep, Florian Reiner, Warrangkana Rattanarat, Niken Sakuntaladewi, Conghe Song, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Johan A. Oldekop   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Applicability of the Advocacy Coalition Framework for Analyzing EU Policy Processes

European Policy Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 1, Winter 2026.
ABSTRACT Initially developed for the US context, the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is increasingly used to analyze policy processes in the EU. But policymaking in EU differs from the US context, why the applicability of ACF in the EU context should be scrutinized.
Fredrik von Malmborg
wiley   +1 more source

Helping organizations to address their effort toward the implementation of improvements in their software process

Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia, 2015
Debido a la importancia de las pequeñas y medianas empresas (pymes) de desarrollo de software para la industria del software, es importante garantizar la calidad de sus productos, para lo cual la mejora de sus procesos ofrece un camino atractivo para ...
Mirna Ariadna Muñoz-Mata, Jezreel Mejia-Miranda, Claudia Valtierra-Alvarado   +2 more
doaj  

MEJORA DE PROCESOS UTILIZANDO RESPUESTAS CUALITATIVAS MEDIANTE EL USO DE REDES NEURONALES

Industrial Data, 2005
La aplicación de Redes Neuronales en problemas de optimización de parámetros para mejora de procesos en los que las respuestas de calidad son cualitativas, es el tema de esta investigación.
Juan Cevallos Ampuero, Roberto Eyzaguirre Tejada   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Non‐State Regulators? Civil Society as Extension of the State in a Context of a Regularization Scheme for Undocumented Migrants

European Policy Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 1, Winter 2026.
ABSTRACT “Opération Papyrus” was implemented in the Swiss Canton of Geneva between 2017 and 2018 with the aim of granting residence permits to undocumented migrants who met pre‐established criteria. This program serves as an exemplary case of involving nongovernmental actors to facilitate what were originally state‐controlled procedures.
Jan‐Erik Refle, Adela Sanela Elezovic, Claudine Burton‐Jeangros, Yves Jackson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Los procesos de acreditación y evaluación institucional en la Universidad San Gregorio de Portoviejo: un análisis de sus experiencias y principales retos

Estrategia y Gestión Universitaria, 2023
Ante el escenario actual, caracterizado por sudinamismo e incertidumbre, las Instituciones de EducaciónSuperior latinoamericanas deben actuar rápidamente paraenfrentar los retos que se derivan de las crecientes demandas.Se afronta la ...
Ximena Guillén Vivas , Judith Galarza López , Eugenio Radamés Borroto Cruz , Katty Loor Ávila , Marcos Ramón Gallegos Macías   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mejora de procesos de software

Revista Publicando, 2017
La Ingenierí­a de Software tiene muchos temarios que abarcar, tales como requerimientos, modelamiento de datos, desarrollo de software, pruebas de software, calidad de software, etc. A través de estos procesos o temarios podemos mejorar  a los distintos procesos manuales que se presentan en las distintas empresas públicas y privadas en el Ecuador y el
Chanatasig Toapanta, Henry Mauricio, Oña Sinchiguano, Brenda Elizabeth, Orbea Jimenez, Edgar Marcelo   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source