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Neural Policy Style Transfer

open access: yesCognitive Systems Research, 2022
Style Transfer has been proposed in a number of fields: fine arts, natural language processing, and fixed trajectories. We scale this concept up to control policies within a Deep Reinforcement Learning infrastructure. Each network is trained to maximize the expected reward, which typically encodes the goal of an action, and can be described as the ...
Raul Fernandez-Fernandez   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Transnational Policy Transfer and the emerging use of Social Network Analysis: supplementing the researcher’s toolkit

open access: yesInternational Review of Public Policy
Policy transfer is increasingly recognised as a process that occurs through networks of organisations and actors (Pal & Spence, 2020), but challenges persist in recognising and applying appropriate methodological tools to unpack and scrutinise this ...
Christopher Walker
doaj   +2 more sources

Increasing Inclusion or Furthering Fragmentation? How the Global Strategy to Include Refugees in National Education Systems Has Been Implemented in Lebanon

open access: yesRefuge, 2020
The UNHCR strategy to include refugee students in host state education systems is intended to promote refugees’ access to quality education. However, numbers of out-of-school refugees far exceed the global average.
Jo Kelcey, Samira Chatila
doaj   +1 more source

Learning from Other Places and Their Plans: Comparative Learning in and for Planning Systems

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2020
In this thematic issue we pursue the idea that comparative studies of planning systems are utterly useful for gaining a deeper understanding of learning processes and learning capacity in spatial planning systems.
Kristof Van Assche   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brazilian Perspectives on Policy Transfer and South-South Cooperation

open access: yesContexto Internacional, 2022
This paper introduces the dossier entitled ‘Policy Transfer and South-South Cooperation’. Very often development cooperation programmes, particularly those labelled as part of South-South cooperation (SSC), use policy transfer as one of their key ...
Osmany Porto de Oliveira   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Costa Rican business sector’s concepts of the transfer of German dual training

open access: yesActualidades Investigativas en Educación, 2021
This article analyzes the tripartite social dialogue of an inter-institutional commission in Costa Rica, which took place from February 27 to September 1, 2017.
Daniel Láscarez-Smith   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Private philanthropy or policy transfer? The transnational norms of the Open Society Institute [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Open Society Institute (OSI) is a private operating and grant-making foundation that serves as the hub of the Soros Foundations Network, a group of autonomous national foundations around the world.
Stone, Diane, Diane Stone
core   +1 more source

Politics and Policies of Higher Education: Policy Transfer and the Bologna Process [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Research in Higher Education, 2017
In this paper, I show how a policy transfer framework can be applied to higher education in Europe, and can provide a different understanding on the relationship between multi-level governance, policy transfer and policy implementation.
Simona Torotcoi
doaj   +1 more source

Closer than they look at first glance: A systematic review and a research agenda regarding measurement practices for policy learning

open access: yesInternational Review of Public Policy, 2021
Learning is a cognitive and social dynamic through which diverse types of actors involved in policy processes acquire, translate and disseminate new information and knowledge about public problems and solutions.
Pierre Squevin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding policy transfer through social network analysis: expanding methodologies with an intensive case study approach

open access: yes, 2022
This work demonstrates the expanding methodological approaches to the study of transnational policy transfer and combines the quantitative methods of SNA and the generation of sociograms with qualitative processes of iterative validation with key ...
Moulis, Alex, Walker, Christopher
core   +1 more source

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