Think Tanks, ‘policy experts’ and ‘ideas for’ education policy making in Australia
The Australian Educational Researcher, 2015 This paper provides a case study of the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) in Australia with a focus on its education policy work, specifically the report, School funding on a budget (SFoB). CIS is a conservative right wing advocacy think tank, established in 1976 in the aftermath of the Whitlam government's policy activism, framed by classical ...
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Digital Cognitive Testing in Mitochondrial Disease: Validity and Challenges for Clinical Trial Use
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Primary mitochondrial disease is a group of genetic disorders caused by pathogenic variants in nuclear or mitochondrial DNA, often resulting in progressive neurodegeneration and cognitive decline. Current management is primarily supportive, though recent research offers hope for disease‐modifying treatments in the future.
Oksana Pogoryelova +9 more
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Random Expert Distillation: Imitation Learning via Expert Policy Support Estimation
CoRR, 2019 We consider the problem of imitation learning from a finite set of expert trajectories, without access to reinforcement signals. The classical approach of extracting the expert's reward function via inverse reinforcement learning, followed by reinforcement learning is indirect and may be computationally expensive.
Wang, Ruohan +3 more
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Salient monetary policy decisions and non-experts’ trust in central banks
Entrepreneurial Business and Economics ReviewObjective: The objective of the article is to shed new light on the relationship between central bank communication and the trust monetary institutions can obtain from ordinary citizens via a comparison of the European Central Bank (ECB) with the ...
Maqsood Aslam +3 more
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Agent-Based Models as “Interested Amateurs”
Land, 2015 This paper proposes the use of agent-based models (ABMs) as “interested amateurs” in policy making, and uses the example of the SWAP model of soil and water conservation adoption to demonstrate the potential of this approach.
Peter George Johnson
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Building on our prior Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System analysis identifying adults aged 18–39 as the primary driver of the national increase in self‐reported cognitive disability, we examined factors associated with this rise using 2013–2024 U.S. BRFSS data. Methods We analyzed U.S.
Adam de Havenon +9 more
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A területfejlesztési képzés egyes jellemzői a hazai felsőoktatásban a 2010-es évek elején (Some Features of Education of Regional Policy in Hungarian Higher Education in the Early 2010s) [PDF]
DETUROPE, 2014 This paper is based on the lectures held at the conference of the Hungarian Society of Regional Science (2013, Kaposvár, Section: „The knowledge of EU regional policy in higher education”) on the one hand, and on the other hand it is based on studies ...
Pál Szabó +4 more
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Founding Editorial: Neuro‐Drug Discovery
Neuro-Drug Discovery, EarlyView.
Wenbin Li
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Deep Learning Pose Estimation for Phenotyping of Co‐Occurring Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To explore whether routine outpatient video combined with deep learning‐based pose estimation and clinically interpretable kinematic features can support multi‐label phenotyping of co‐occurring hyperkinetic movement disorders (HMDs).
Laura Cif +17 more
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Promoting health in the digital environment: health policy experts' responses to on-demand delivery in Aotearoa New Zealand. [PDF]
Health Promot Int, 2023 McKerchar C +6 more
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