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Policy Capacity Under Decentralization: Kindergarten Education Reforms in the Philippines

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the relationship between policy capacity and policy effectiveness in decentralized governance setups. It challenges the conventional view that policy functions should only be decentralized when requisite capacities already exist at lower levels of government. Instead, the paper proposes that capacity can follow function ‐ as
Kidjie Ian Saguin, M. Ramesh
wiley   +1 more source

Sleep spindles in midday naps enhance learning in preschool children

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013
L. Kurdziel, Kasey Duclos, R. Spencer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Do Policy Capacities Matter for Federal Policy Design? Evidence From the Implementation of Three Social Policies in Brazil

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together the literature on policy design, policy capacity and policy making in multilevel systems, this paper argues that the effectiveness of policy design in federal countries depends, ceteris paribus, on the adequacy of federal and local policy capacities.
Giliberto Capano   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developmental Patterns in Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Preschool Children. [PDF]

open access: yesChildren (Basel)
Martelli ME   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessing the Impact of Screen Time on the Motor Development of Children: A Systematic Review

open access: yesPediatric Discovery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Screen time, defined as the amount of time spent engaging with electronic screens, has become inevitable in modern life. The rise in screen time among children under 5 years old has raised concerns about its association with motor development including gross and fine motor skills. Conflicting evidence on the association of screen time requires
Danyal Bakht   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional outbreak of parvovirus B19 acute myocarditis in preschool children

open access: yesPediatric Investigation, EarlyView.
We recently came across an outbreak of parvovirus B19 related acute myocarditis in preschool children in a specific region in northern Greece. The children exhibited serious morbidity and mortality. All children had very poor left ventricular ejection fraction and required inotropic intensive care unit support.
Filippos‐Paschalis Rorris   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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