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The Migratory Pathways of Labourers and Legislation: From Érin to Aotearoa

open access: yesGenealogy, 2022
This article addresses the process and consequences of colonisation by studying the migration of both legislative frameworks and one person who helped give those structures material effect in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Richard Shaw
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Technocracy

open access: yesEncyclopedia
Technocracy refers to any political–social–economic system that is governed and managed using purportedly objective scientific and technical principles, and in which ultimate power and authority rests with technical and scientific experts.
Cameron Elliott Gordon
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Return Migration: a Pattern of Policy Transfer or a Domestic Approach?

open access: yesEIRP Proceedings, 2021
Migration phenomenon is a complex, cross-country, emerging issues and more often the decisionmakers are challenged in terms of public policies. Therefore, in their attempt to find better or the best solutions to public policies problems, including ...
Tatiana Camelia Dogaru (Cruceanu)
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Putting the Car Before the Horse: The Diffusion of the Automobile and the Rise of Technocratic Primacy

open access: yesHistories
A key question in the literature of technology in society is the degree to which technology is a product of society and vice versa. A related question is how the differing cross-causal lines between the two change both technological and social forms ...
Cameron Elliott Gordon
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How “Rational” Is Urban Public Corruption?

open access: yesUrban Science
This article reviews the literature on both (a) the general theory of public corruption and its evolution over time; and (b) the history of urban public corruption during the modern period into the present. In addition, this article conducts a historical
Cameron Elliott Gordon
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Key Dynamics of Internationalization of Public Policy in the Context of Policy Transfer

open access: yesJurnal Politik, 2017
The article aims at examining how policy could be transferred as a complex and dynamic process in terms of internationalization and globalization. In addition, it will explore significant channels for the international movement of ideas, policies, and ...
Alexander Hamonangan Nainggolan
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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 ...
Fernández Fernández, Raúl   +3 more
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“Cycling … is Not Going to Occur Naturally”: A View on the Research Agenda for Bicycle Mobility in Urban South Africa

open access: yesActive Travel Studies, 2021
Although drafting might be an effective bicycle racing practice, closely following someone else’s lead is not necessarily the best course of action when it comes to bicycle planning – particularly in emerging or starter cycling cities that have ...
Gail Jennings
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Policy Stitching: Learning Transferable Robot Policies

open access: yes, 2023
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Jian, Pingcheng   +4 more
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Business Improvement Districts: A Systematic Review of an Urban Governance Model towards City Center Revitalization

open access: yesLand, 2021
For some time, business improvement districts (BIDs) have entered into the discourse and practice of academics and urban planners. This model for town centre revitalization was created in North America, whose success has led to its transfer to a growing ...
Pedro Guimarães
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