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Partidos e migração partidária na câmara dos deputados

open access: yesDados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2000
This contribution to the recent debate on political parties in Brazil focuses on party migration by members of Brazil?s Lower House from 1985 to 1998. The assumption is that shifts in party membership tell us something about the ties between parties and ...
Melo Carlos Ranulfo Felix de
doaj  

Motivations for local climate adaptation in Dutch municipalities: climate change impacts and the role of local-level government [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The local government level is considered to be crucial in preparing society for climate change impact. Yet little is known about why local authorities do or do not take action to adapt their community for climate change impacts.
Berg, Maya M. van den
core   +1 more source

Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability policy emphasises that people with disability have the right to exercise their will and preferences in their lives, and decision‐making support must be provided to realise this right if they request. One context in which people's will and preferences are often restricted is behaviour support.
Sally Robinson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Culturally Safe Assistive Technology Provision in Australia: Concept Mapping Perspectives From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dr. Hans Kohn and the political takeover of the Berlin Medical Society by the National Socialist regime in 1933

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract To solidify their power over society, totalitarian regimes will usually eliminate any dissent, any perceived threats early on. These threats include not only political enemies but also educated and independent segments of society, such as professional associations.
Michael Hortsch
wiley   +1 more source

Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants [PDF]

open access: yes
Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in other countries.
Appleton, Simon, Song, Lina
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Decision tree analysis as a preliminary evidence‐based tool for identifying the syndrome of undifferentiated recurrent fever in children compared with hereditary recurrent fevers and periodic fever, aphthosis, pharyngitis and adenitis syndrome

open access: yesArthritis &Rheumatology, Accepted Article.
Objective To develop evidence‐based criteria to classify SURF patients. Methods 112 SURF patients followed in a single tertiary referral center were analyzed. Patients with genetically confirmed hereditary recurrent fever (HRF) or with periodic fever, aphthosis, pharyngitis and adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome already analyzed for the Eurofever classification
Riccardo Papa   +54 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interleukin‐18 levels are associated with disease course in patients with Still's disease treated with IL‐1 inhibitors

open access: yesArthritis &Rheumatology, Accepted Article.
Objective To evaluate the prognostic utility of circulating Interleukin‐18 (IL‐18) levels in predicting disease activity, macrophage activation syndrome (MAS), and disease course in Still's disease (SD) patients receiving first‐line IL‐1 inhibitors (IL‐1i).
Matteo Trevisan   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Equilibrium Social Insurance with Policy-Motivated Parties [PDF]

open access: yes
We study the political economy of social insurance with double heterogeneity of voters (i.e., different income and risk levels). Social insurance is financed through distortionary taxation and redistributes across income and risks.
Jean, HINDRIKS, Philippe, DE DONDER
core  

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