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Silences and Accents in the Construction of Gender Violence as a Social Problem in Quito

open access: yesÍconos, 2016
Gender violence has been constructed as a social problem in diverse semiotic-material matrices. This article describes these matrices and analyzes their effects on laws and municipal services in Quito, Ecuador.
Paz Guarderas Albuja
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of Russian citizens’ attitude to the processes of public services digitalization

open access: yesE-Management, 2020
Russia is rapidly increasing the use of digital technologies in all spheres of public life. The speed, with which new technologies appear and are implemented, leads to the fact that people cannot quickly adapt to them.
S. P. Kosarin, I. V. Milkina
doaj   +1 more source

Municipal healthcare professionals’ interprofessional collaboration during older patients’ transitions in the municipal health and care services: a qualitative study

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Interprofessional collaboration is vital to assist patients towards a healthy transition in the municipal health and care services. However, no study has so far investigated municipal health care providers’ inter-professional collaboration ...
Marianne Eika, Sigrun Hvalvik
doaj   +1 more source

Toward Equal Delivery of Municipal Services in the Central Cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 1976
Urban living has become inevitable for most Americans in central cities and government assistance has risen steadily to help the masses crowded in the urban complex. Legislation has been aimed at equalizing the opportunity for employment, decent housing,
Bond, Kenneth W.
core   +2 more sources

Re-municipalization of public services: trend or hype? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Policy Reform, 2019
Re-municipalization is part of a broader set of reverse privatization reforms. We argue the term re-municipalization lacks conceptual clarity and often confuses municipal level reversals from national ones, new service delivery from reversals, and mixed market positions (such as corporatization) from full public control. This conceptual confusion makes
Judith Clifton   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

The definition of criteria for assessing the quality of municipal services

open access: yesУченые записки Российской академии предпринимательства, 2021
This article considers approaches to definition of criteria to evaluate the quality of municipal services. The system characteristics that local authorities should apply in practice the provision of a service and monitor satisfaction with it.
J. .. Shestun
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Democratic Hopes in the Polycentric City [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The polycentric model of municipal governance suggests that multiple jurisdictions may approximate an efficient market for local public services: citizens move to jurisdictions offering services they value at tax rates they are willing and able to pay ...
King, Loren
core   +3 more sources

Recapitulating Endochondral Ossification for Bone Repair: From Development to Engineering Strategy

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review summarizes the developmental basis of endochondral ossification (ECO) and its applications in bone tissue engineering (BTE). It first outlines the key biological processes and signaling pathways underlying ECO, then discusses biomaterial‐based engineering strategies derived from these principles, and finally highlights future directions for
Yiqi Su   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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