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Policy entrepreneur and social policy innovation in China [PDF]

The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2015
Fostering policy innovation at the local level and spreading the successful practice have been pervasive features of policy making in postreform China. The existing literature explains why the local government launches innovations and what enables these innovations. However, little research has been done on the emerging process of the new ideas and the
Zhu, Yapeng, Xiao, Diwen
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Towards Adaptive Management: Examining the Strategies of Policy Entrepreneurs in Dutch Water Management

Ecology and Society, 2011
The growing awareness of the complexities and uncertainties in water management has put into question the existing paradigms in this field. Increasingly more flexible, integrated, and adaptive policies are promoted.
Stijn Brouwer, Frank Biermann
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Fostering Networks, Leverage the strengths of the Micro SME Entrepreneur and Trust in Government to Support the Benefits Community in The Inclusive Business Project [PDF]

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Mahasarakham University, 2021
Problems of hawkers and their stalls, in slum communities in the Bangkok area, affect the environment and the standard of living. The purpose of the research was to 1) study the level of administrative factors, namely to support the network taking ...
Sobchoke Na Srito, Rapeepun Piriyakul, Napaporn Khantanapha   +2 more
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Negotiating Human–AI Complementarity in Geriatric and Palliative Care: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Practitioners’ Perspectives in Northeast China

Informatics
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly significant in healthcare around the world, especially in China, where rapid population ageing coincides with rising expectations for quality of life and a shrinking care workforce.
Chenyang Guo, Chao Fang, Wenbo Zhang, John Troyer   +3 more
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The Power of Policy Entrepreneur in Disability- inclusive Policy-Making

Policy & Governance Review, 2022
This research aims to describe the power of policy entrepreneurs in disability-inclusive policy-making. Disability-inclusive policy in the Jember Regency of East Java, Indonesia, is a result of a thirteen-year- long struggle of the disability groups ...
Erna Setijaningrum, Ramaditya Rahardian
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Is an Apple an Orange? A Large Language Model Benchmark for Candidate Term Extraction and Subclass Decisions Against Upper Ontologies in Engineering and Materials Science

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Building machine‐readable vocabularies for materials science is slow, expert‐driven work. This study benchmarks 13 large language models on two of its first steps: finding candidate terms in engineering articles and deciding where they belong in a class hierarchy.
Thomas Bjarsch, Maximilian Holland, Klaus Drechsler, Johannes Schilp   +3 more
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Measuring How Water‐Related Policies of the Global South Consider Gender: Insights From Trialling a New Policy Gender Index in Nepal

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies
This paper supports policymakers to consider how well their water‐related policies respond to gender roles, norms and relations. By braiding the latest philosophies on gender mainstreaming with Integrated Water Resources Management and Feminist Policy ...
Susan M. Cuddy, Sanju Koirala, Shahriar Wahid, David J. Penton   +3 more
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When words matter: narratives and strategies in the Italian Jobs Act (2014–2016)

Policy & Society, 2019
With the reforms of the so-called ‘Jobs Act’ (JA), Italy aimed to structurally reform its labour market and income-support system, through recalibration (i.e.
Maria Tullia Galanti, Stefano Sacchi
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Multifunctional Neutrophil Nanovesicles Induce Remodeling of Tumor Immune Microenvironment and Synergistic Multimodal Tumor Therapy

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Schematic illustration of the engineered RN@FDT for multimodal tumor therapy. a) Fabrication of FD&DOX/TFA‐loaded RGD‐NNV (RN@FDT) and the light‐triggered disassemble of RN@FDT. b) After internalized by tumor cells, RN@FDT are disintegrated under NIR‐II laser irradiation to boost PTT and induce cell apoptosis.
Jiahui Zhang, Cheng Ji, Xin‐Jian Fang, Yu Qian, Jiayuan Shi, Wenhui Liu, Baiyuan Fan, Yuan Zhong, Jiayi Wang, Dan Yu, Maoye Wang, Min Fu, Xiaoxin Zhang, Runbi Ji, Hélder A. Santos, Hongbo Zhang, Xu Zhang   +16 more
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A policy window and a network of global and local policy entrepreneurs: The introduction of opioid substitution therapy in Belarus

Central European Journal of Public Policy, 2021
Why does a regime that is predominantly characterised by conservative ideology introduce opioid substitution therapy (OST), a liberal policy? This article applies the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to examine the introduction of OST in Belarus ...
Babayan Ararat, Schlaufer Caroline, Uldanov Artem   +2 more
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