Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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Optimizing MRI Scheduling in High-Complexity Hospitals: A Digital Twin and Reinforcement Learning Approach. [PDF]
Silva-Aravena F +3 more
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ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding ...
Thenia Vagionaki
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Large neighborhood search and hyper-heuristics for the capacitated p-median problem. [PDF]
Gjergji I, Kletzander L, Musliu N.
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The Distributive Consequences of Active Welfare Policies in Europe
ABSTRACT This article examines the distributive consequences of active welfare policies in Europe by analysing tier‐specific investments in individualised employment services across four European welfare states: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Deborah Jackwerth‐Rice +1 more
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A direction aware predictive offloading framework for energy conscious mobile augmented reality systems. [PDF]
Jebamani SA, Sathianesan GW.
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The EU's Strategy for Sustainability: A Landmark Turn With the European Green Deal?
ABSTRACT While the European Green Deal (EGD) has been widely recognized as a milestone in the EU's sustainability strategy, scholars disagree on the nature of the policy change it represents. Critics highlight its limited social and environmental ambitions, despite its portrayal as a “man on the moon” moment.
Ekaterina Domorenok, Franco Gatti
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Comprehensive usability evaluation of electronic prescription systems: integrating expert and user perspectives. [PDF]
Arabian S +4 more
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Delay guaranteed SFC placement with VNF parallelization in multidomain IoT networks. [PDF]
Liu S +5 more
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