Results 181 to 190 of about 4,629,474 (274)

Bureaucrat assignments as instruments of political control: Theory and evidence from land administration officials in India

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how politicians use the assignment of officials to geographical posts—a personnel system found in many countries—as a system of incentives to control, and possibly corrupt, bureaucratic behavior. The argument is developed with a matching model and tested with a nationwide survey of Indian officials who administer land ...
Anustubh Agnihotri, Aditya Dasgupta, Devesh Kapur   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic Low-Rank Modulation and Frequency-Domain Collaboration for Scene-Adaptive Image Fusion Network. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Zhang Y, Tian L, Huang S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Addressing inequities in the design and delivery of prehabilitation in the UK: case studies of challenges, complexities and good practice*

Anaesthesia, EarlyView.
Summary Introduction Prehabilitation has become increasingly prominent in the context of cancer surgery. While prehabilitation offers significant benefits, it can also inadvertently broaden inequalities because it is often more accessible to some than others.
Charlotte Hadley, Xiubin Zhang, Hilary Stewart, Sophie Stanley, Ces Kulikowski, Andrea Partridge, Laura Wareing, Lisa Ashmore, Christopher Gaffney, Jo Rycroft Malone, Andrew Smith, Cliff Shelton   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial distribution and environmental attributes dataset of China's large-scale data centers in 2024. [PDF]

Sci Data
Yang Z, Zhou K, Niu Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Frayed Rope and Resilient Threads: Fijian Healthcare and the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In April 2021, Fiji faced international scrutiny due to ‘horrific’ hospital conditions, including staff and patients lacking food, non‐operational operating theatres, and critical shortages of beds, medicine, and equipment. After successfully avoiding a major outbreak in 2020, a sudden surge in COVID‐19 cases in 2021 overwhelmed the public ...
Sharon McLennan, Johanna Thomas‐Maude, Apisalome Movono, Akisi Ravono   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal evolution and stage-driven mechanisms of population-land urbanization coupling coordination in counties of the yangtze river delta urban agglomeration: An empirical analysis based on multi-source remote sensing data. [PDF]

PLoS One
Tong F, Cai Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Depositional processes of varved sediments from proglacial Lago Frías since 1800 CE (North Patagonian Andes, Argentina)

Boreas, EarlyView.
The glacierized Valle Frías in Northern Patagonia is one of the best‐studied valleys in South America and includes varved sediments from Lago Frías. We complement this lacustrine record with a high‐resolution documentation of varve counts and their composition.
Bernd Zolitschka, Philipp Böning, A. Catalina Gebhardt, M. Alicia Irurzun, Wojciech Tylmann, Christoph Vogt, Claudia S. G. Gogorza   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal evolution and driving factors of urban-rural integration in the Jinan metropolitan area. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Mei D, Liu N, Yu H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Family and Employer Perspectives on the Employment of Youth With Disabilities From a DisCrit Perspective

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the experiences of families and employers in the employment processes of individuals with disabilities in Turkey, within the framework of the DisCrit (Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory) approach. The research was conducted through semi‐structured telephone interviews with 25 parents living in Turkey who have ...
A. Emel Sardohan Yildirim, Muhammed Ali Çankaya, Özlem Altindağ Kumaş   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatio-temporal heterogeneity and driving mechanisms of RSEI in the north-south sections of the Beijing-Hangzhou grand canal: an empirical study using GEE and XGBoost-SHAP. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Xia X, Sun S, Liu Q, Guo H, Wang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source