Comparison of the effect of intramuscular injection from two different sites on pain and fear in children: a randomized controlled study. [PDF]
Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992)Tiryaki Ö +4 more
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The Role of Public Administrators in Building a Robust Liberal Democracy
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT After decades of expansion, liberal democracy is threatened by autocratic populists. These actors exploit widening gaps between leaders and citizens, as well as growing political polarization in the population, to consolidate executive power by undermining courts, sidelining elected assemblies, discrediting public administrators, and ...
Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing
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Identity-related problems: direct and indirect associations with emotional intelligence and childhood environment. [PDF]
Adv Ment HealthBouwmeister DR, Chung JJ, Kaufman EA.
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Artificial Intelligence, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Democratic Administration
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic, many countries have been using artificial intelligence (AI) to replace civil service personnel. We argue that this practice undermines core democratic values. Using the public values framework, we identify four clusters of values that are threatened when bureaucratic discretion is transferred to ...
L. Jason Anastasopoulos
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The causal effect of juvenile idiopathic arthritis on IgA nephropathy: A Mendelian randomization study. [PDF]
Medicine (Baltimore)Kong L, Zou H, Xu W, Xu X.
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Skills, Not Just Will: Experimental Evidence From Uganda on Transparency in Public Procurement
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Governments are usually the largest purchasers of goods and services, creating significant opportunities for corruption. We study whether offering training and technical assistance to procurement officials in 50 Ugandan districts prompted them to publish procurement actions on an online public portal, as legally required.
Mark T. Buntaine +4 more
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Pre-referral management of preeclampsia with severity features in a low-income country-characteristics and challenges in a Sub-Saharan setting: a mixed method study. [PDF]
AJOG Glob RepSium AF, Getachew A, Gudu W.
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Death, Deprivation, and the Symmetry Problem
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT According to the deprivation account of the badness of death, death is bad for the one who dies because it deprives her of goods she would otherwise have enjoyed. This view faces the so‐called symmetry problem when one considers prenatal nonexistence. Scholars have proposed various solutions to this problem, but all of them encounter their own
Ryota Ishihara
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