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Effects of atmospheric discharges on wind farms performance: a review study
Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability, 2022 One of the factors that influence the energy projects’ performance is the atmospheric conditions. Atmospheric discharges are a recurrent and natural phenomenon, that for the energy sector, represent a risk for the system functioning due to the ...
Mello Gisela +2 more
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The Inner Functioning of Local Governance Networks in Centralized Countries: A ‘Brave New World’?
Social Sciences, 2023 Local governance networks are increasingly seen as the big idea to cope with issues that are complex enough in scope and scale to require a diversity of expertise and resources. While conventional narrative has posited that local networks are optimal for
Patrícia Silva +4 more
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Explaining public support for counterproductive homeless policy: the role of disgust [PDF]
, 2017 Federal, state, and city governments spend substantial funds on programs intended to aid homeless people, and such programs attract widespread public support.
Piston, S.
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Pact for Life and the Reduction of Homicides in the State of Pernambuco
Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2014 The Pact for Life, the Public Security Policy implemented in Pernambuco in 2007, is identified as a successful policy that produced a large reduction in homicides in Pernambuco.
José Luiz Ratton +2 more
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Public Sector Personnel Economics: Wages, Promotions, and the Competence-Control Trade-off [PDF]
, 2016 We model personnel policies in public agencies, examining how wages and promotion standards can partially offset a fundamental contracting problem: the inability of public sector workers to contract on performance, and the inability of political masters ...
Cameron, Charles M. +2 more
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The influence of education on the access to childhood immunization: the case of Spain
BMC Public Health, 2018 Background In order to enhance childhood vaccination uptake and the health consequences for the whole society, there is a need to study predictors that might help in understanding parents’ behaviour in relation to childhood vaccination schemes.
T. Mora, M. Trapero-Bertran
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Behavioral Sciences, 2022 (1) Background: The motivational determinants of health professionals to choose and remain in the public sector have been increasingly addressed, including the customized approach of Public Service Motivation (PSM).
Alexandre Fernandes +2 more
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Justifying abuse of women migrant domestic workers in Lebanon: the opinion of recruitment agencies
Gaceta Sanitaria, 2020 Objective: Gender-based violence against women migrant domestic workers (WMDW) is a serious public health concern in the Middle East region. The current study is the first to explore abuse of WMDW as perceived by recruitment agency managers.
Ali Ghaddar +2 more
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Agriculture, 2021 In this study, we apply the hypothesis of private amenity which simulates that the nonindustrial livestock farmers are assured an ex-ante normal minimum operating profitability rate for their investments in the production systems of livestock species ...
Pablo Campos +2 more
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The Future of Public Policy [PDF]
World Futures, 2008 This article reports the results of research that uses policy network theory and advocacy coalition theory to deduce the implications for the future of public policy in EU Member States of king trends: all those technological, economic, environmental, and social trends that can be empirically verified, affect the lives of large numbers of people and ...
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