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Monetary policy: stability through change. [PDF]

The recent business cycle has been driven by two forces: a series of extraordinary events and some longer term secular trends. In "Monetary Policy: Stability Through Change," President Anthony Santomero discusses how these extraordinary events, including
Anthony M. Santomero
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Leadership for Policy Change [PDF]

, 2003
Provides options for utilizing foundation and government support to create and enhance community-based leadership development programs in communities of ...
Dwayne S. Marsh, Kris Putnam-Walkerly, Milly Hawk Daniel   +2 more
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Challenging pathways to safe water access in rural Uganda: From supply to demand-driven water governance

International Journal of the Commons, 2015
Uganda has experienced a major policy shift from a supply-driven to a demand-driven approach in rural water provision since 1990. The article sheds light on the rural population’s access to safe water within the changing institutional frameworks.
Resty Naiga, Marianne Penker, Karl Hogl
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Conceptualizing and measuring migration policy change

Comparative Migration Studies, 2015
This paper outlines the methodology of DEMIG POLICY, a new database tracking around 6,000 migration policy changes in 45 countries between 1945 and 2014. The article conceptualizes the notion of migration policy change and presents the coding system used
Hein de Haas, Katharina Natter, S. Vezzoli   +2 more
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Formal and informal social care in people with Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal diseases: a cross‐sectional multicentre survey

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Introduction Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases(RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living(ADLs). This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disperate regions of England: Salford(urban) and Norfolk(rural).
Mehreen Somro, Karen Durrant, William G Dixon, John McBeth, Alex MacGregor, Max Yates, Jenny H Humphreys   +6 more
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Microeconomic policy and technological change [PDF]

Economic policy ; Research and development ; Microeconomics ...
Edwin Mansfield
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Exploring the factors that influence engagement with and experiences of integrated care for adults at risk of cardiovascular disease and mild-to-moderate mental health concerns in the UK (OptICS): a systematic review protocol

Systematic Reviews
Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of premature death globally. CVD is expensive to treat and therefore carries a significant cost for public healthcare systems and the people in them.
Alison R. McKinlay, Neil Howlett, Vivi Antonopoulou, Fabiana Lorencatto, Laura J. McGowan, David Osborn, Amy O’Donnell, Emily J. Oliver, Ivo Vlaev, Falko F. Sniehotta, Michael P. Kelly, Susan Michie, Caroline Kemp, Yannis Pappas, Gurch Randhawa, Nasreen Ali, Emily Munro, Angel M Chater   +17 more
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Exploring perceptions of community health policy in Kenya and identifying implications for policy change

Health Policy and Planning, 2015
Background: Global interest and investment in close-to-community health services is increasing. Kenya is currently revising its community health strategy (CHS) alongside political devolution, which will result in revisioning of responsibility for local ...
Rosalind McCollum, Lilian Otiso, Maryline Mireku, S. Theobald, K. D. de Koning, S. Hussein, M. Taegtmeyer   +6 more
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A Robust Adaptive One‐Sample‐Ahead Preview Super‐Twisting Sliding Mode Controller

International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, EarlyView.
Block Diagram of the Robust Adaptive One‐Sample‐Ahead Preview Super‐Twisting Sliding Mode Controller. ABSTRACT This article introduces a discrete‐time robust adaptive one‐sample‐ahead preview super‐twisting sliding mode controller. A stability analysis of the controller by Lyapunov criteria is developed to demonstrate its robustness in handling both ...
Guilherme Vieira Hollweg, Paulo Jefferson Dias de Oliveira Evald, Shivam Chaturvedi, Hilton Abilio Gründling, Rodrigo Varella Tambara, Wencong Su   +5 more
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Uncertainty and climate change policy [PDF]

The paper consists of a summary of the main sources of uncertainty about climate change, and a discussion of the major implications for economic analysis and the formulation of climate policy. Uncertainty typically implies that the optimal policy is more
John Quiggin
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