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Policy analysis and policy analytics [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Operations Research, 2015
The work of Katherine Daniell was supported by the HC Coombs Policy Forum. The HC Coombs Policy Forum and the Australian National Institute for Public Policy (ANIPP) received Australian Government funding under the ‘Enhancing Public Policy Initiative’. The work of David Ríos is supported by the AXA-ICMAT Chair in Adversarial Risk Analysis, the AESA-RAC
Katherine A. Daniell   +2 more
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P3O: Policy-on Policy-off Policy Optimization

open access: yesCoRR, 2019
UAI 2019 conference paper.
Rasool Fakoor   +2 more
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Italian farms during the COVID-19 pandemic: main problems and future perspectives. A direct analysis through the italian FADN

open access: yesBio-based and Applied Economics, 2022
The spread of the COVID-19 virus in Italy during the first phasis of the pandemic (February-May 2020) has caused a large-scale crisis, with an almost immediate decrease of industrial production and a consequent contraction in domestic consumption and ...
Luca Cesaro   +5 more
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Ten years after: Diffusion, criticism and potential improvements in the use of FADN for Rural Development assessment in Italy

open access: yesEconomia Agro-Alimentare, 2021
This article aims to contribute to the debate about the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN), on how to make it more usable, useful and reliable, both for research users and practitioners when studying policy assessment.
Roberto Cagliero   +4 more
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“I Don’t Know if I Can Handle It All”: Students’ Affect During Remote Education in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil

open access: yesInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted society in different areas. In education, several reports show the deleterious effects of the disease on the physical and mental health of students, family members, and teachers around the world. Also, in Brazil, affect
Felipe Augusto de Mesquita Comelli   +2 more
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Smoothing policies and safe policy gradients

open access: yesMachine Learning, 2022
AbstractPolicy gradient (PG) algorithms are among the best candidates for the much-anticipated applications of reinforcement learning to real-world control tasks, such as robotics. However, the trial-and-error nature of these methods poses safety issues whenever the learning process itself must be performed on a physical system or involves any form of ...
Papini M., Pirotta M., Restelli M.
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The use of FADN methodology to support the evaluation of business development plans in the RDP Sicily 2014-2020

open access: yesEconomia Agro-Alimentare, 2021
Article 19(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 provides that business start-up aid for young farmers, non-agricultural activities in rural areas and the development of small farms shall be conditional on the submission of a business plan.
Alessandra Vaccaro   +4 more
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Agriculture Policy Is Health Policy [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, 2009
The Farm Bill is meant to supplement and secure farm incomes, ensure a stable food supply, and support the American farm economy. Over time, however, it has evolved into a system that creates substantial health impacts, both directly and indirectly. By generating more profit for food producers and less for family farmers; by effectively subsidizing the
Jackson, Richard J   +4 more
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The Incorporation of the 2030 Agenda in the Design of Local Policies for Social Transformation in Disadvantaged Urban Areas

open access: yesLand, 2022
According to the United Nations, the current COVID-19 crisis is threatening decades of development gains. This situation is aggravated in disadvantaged urban areas where 25% of the world’s population lives.
Rocío Vela-Jiménez   +3 more
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Perspective: Lessons from COVID-19 of countries in the European region in light of findings from the health system response monitor

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionDecision-makers initially had limited data to inform their policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The research community developed several online databases to track cases, deaths, and hospitalizations; however, a major deficiency was the ...
Florian Tille   +11 more
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