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Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intergovernmental grants stimulate the diffusion of policy reforms, as the federal government provides states with a financial incentive to adopt policies aligned with federal priorities. Less is known about the extent to which these grants also stimulate horizontal diffusion across states.
NaLette Brodnax, Sarah James
wiley   +1 more source

Metodología simplificada para evaluación de vulnerabilidad geoténica de terraplenes en carreteras de montaña de Costa Rica

Infraestructura Vial, 2012
Este trabajo desarrolla una metodología de evaluación simplificada de la vulnerabilidad física de rellenos o terraplenes sobre laderas, aplicable en la gestión de riesgos de carreteras de montaña.
Álvaro Ulloa Salazar, William Vargas Monge   +1 more
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The Five‐Thread Model & Academic Policy Entrepreneurs: From the White Australia Policy to Multicultural Australia

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why did Australia go from the White Australia Policy, which excluded non‐whites, to institutionalizing multiculturalism policy in the 1970s? This question defies traditional political ideologies of the major political parties, which had long supported the White Australia Policy. This article is a rare empirical demonstration of the Five‐Thread
Julius C. S. Mok
wiley   +1 more source

Mezclas asfálticas en frío en Costa Rica, conceptos, ensayos y especificaciones

Infraestructura Vial, 2012
Las mezclas asfálticas en frío se vuelven atractivas, como una alternativa en contraposición con el uso de las mezclas asfálticas en caliente, debido a la creciente necesidad de encontrar soluciones que representen una economía en las inversiones, y que ...
Mónica Jiménez Acuña, Denia Sibaja Obando   +1 more
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As técnicas alternadas em natação pura desportiva: modelo biomecânico, modelo técnico, modelo de ensino

, 2011
O ensino das técnicas de nado constitui uma etapa fundamental na formação das competências do nadador. Assim, ensinar e aperfeiçoar as técnicas de nado são actos pedagógicos que devem sempre orientar-se para a preparação do quadro de competências específicas do nadador.
Conceição, Ana, Garrido, Nuno, Marinho, Daniel, Costa, Aldo, Barbosa, Tiago, Reis, Vitor, Ferraz, Cristina, Silva, António, Louro, Hugo   +8 more
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From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Skills formation is a pressing issue for middle‐income countries given the pace of technological change. In Latin America, scholars point to the hierarchical type of capitalism and its segmentalist skills formation system as the main roadblocks to exiting the middle‐income trap.
Aldo Madariaga, Mariana Rangel‐Padilla
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing D‐Squame as a Minimally Invasive Technique to Evaluate the Cutaneous Immune Response mRNA in a Dog Model of Canine Atopic Dermatitis

Veterinary Dermatology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Canine atopic dermatitis (cAD) is a multifactorial, inherited skin disease, estimated to affect ≤ 15% of dogs. Studies of skin messenger mRNA in cAD currently use invasive methods, including blood sampling and biopsy collection, whilst advances in human atopic dermatitis study methodology have demonstrated reliable use of minimally ...
Xavier Langon, Marion Mosca, Nadège Milhau, Mélanie Legain, Adrien Idée, Didier Pin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatially Downscaling of Future Food Demand for Policy Planning

World Food Policy, Volume 12, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Understanding the subnational dynamics of food demand, while accounting for the evolution of the agrifood system at the global level, remains a challenge for designing food policy to ensure food security. To link global agrifood systems with subnational food policy planning, we downscale per capita food demand for 62 food commodities at the ...
Chun Song, Francis Yego, Athanasios Petsakos, Elisabetta Gotor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

El modelo probabilístico: características y modelos derivados

, 2009
A review of the art of the family of probabilistic model of information retrieval is presented. Based on its basic priciples, difefferent specific models are analysed: the BIR model –the most basic one– the classic BM25 and the DFR models, one of the last developed.
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A Customised, Intensive Parent–Child Interaction Therapy for Children With Down Syndrome: Findings From a Real‐World Pilot Effectiveness Study

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Coaching parents through parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT) is a key aspect of early communication intervention for children with Down syndrome. However, the evidence for its effect on child language outcomes is limited. Some research has indicated that more intensive, individualised interventions yield better outcomes; however,
Ciara O'Toole, Hannah Moloney, Chloe McCarthy, Sophie Vousden, Abby O'Sullivan, Deirdre Flynn, Susanna Stokes, Emily D. Quinn, Pauline Frizelle   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source