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Comparing Drug Policy Windows Internationally

Contemporary Drug Problems, 2015
In this article, I compare and contrast policymaking processes in Canada and England and Wales between 1997 and the present day to provide insight into why the Canadian government approved the opening of a downtown Vancouver drug consumption room (DCR) named InSite in 2003, and why the British government has not yet done so.
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Looking through the postdisaster policy window

Environmental Management, 1994
Policy windows are transitory opportunities during which the likelihood of adopting new policy or legislative proposals is greater than usual. Accepted wisdom has held that natural disasters serve as focusing events that generate policy windows in their wake. This paper highlights the need for a more circumscribed understanding of when and where policy
William D. Solecki, Sarah Michaels
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The opening of a policy window

2018
This chapter explores the development of the ‘troubled families’ discourse, starting in the early years of the coalition government that was formed in 2010. It details the shift from the localist approach of Whole Place Community Budgets and the Big Society Working Families Everywhere project to the local authority-led Troubled Families Programme.
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Adaptive window working set replacement policies

Microprocessing and Microprogramming, 1992
Abstract The adaptive window policy AWP gives an explicit relation for memory management based upon both program behavior and trade-off between main memory and disk memory. In this paper a new policy LWS is derived which also incorporates both terms using an implicit relation.
A.M. van Wezenbeek, W.J. Withagen
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Supplementing Group Policy on Windows Desktops

2011
In spite of an increasingly mobile workforce working flexible hours, the image of a “desktop” sitting on a Formica, faux cedar wood bureau, or workstation in a cubicle persists. But as we know full well, a desktop is not a machine required to be in a fixed location anymore. With technology what it is, that term is synonymous for a person (wherever they
John Mutch, Brian Anderson
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Credit Policy at the Discount Window

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1959
Misconceptions concerning discount practices, 207. — How limitation of discounting is effected, 210. — Interaction with the tradition against borrowing, 212. — Conclusion. 214.
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Evaluation of Moving Window Policies with CART

2016 7th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice (IWESEP), 2016
CONTEXT: Recent studies have shown that estimation accuracy can be affected by only using a window of recent projects (instead of all past projects) as training data for building an effort estimation model. The effect and its extent can be affected by the effort estimation methods used, and the windowing policy used (fixed size or fixed duration).
Sousuke Amasaki, Chris Lokan
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National ocean policy: A window of opportunity

Ocean Development & International Law, 1988
Abstract This paper analyzes the evolution of U.S. ocean policy from the early 1960s through the present and suggests directions that ocean policy is likely to take in the 1990s. The authors seek to understand why certain ocean policies have been successfully established in the U.S., and adapt the insights developed recently by John Kingdon (1984) to ...
Robert W. Knecht, Biliana Cicin‐Sain, Jack H. Archer   +2 more
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Welfare improvement windows for innovation policy

Research Policy, 2018
Abstract The question this article addresses is, how far from its optimal level can an innovation policy be implemented at, yet still improve social welfare relative to the laissez-faire outcome? The concern for policymakers is that even an intervention which enhances welfare if set at its optimal magnitude might actually make matters worse if ...
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Developing a Windows NT security policy

Information Security Technical Report, 1998
Abstract The choice of Windows NT as the strategic platform for the desktop and shared application server is becoming more widespread. A challenge for the security team is to provide guidelines on the minimum level of security controls that should be implemented on these systems.
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