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Mixed Supply Model of Public Service Provision in “Village to Residence” Community: An Empirical Case Study in Jinan [PDF]

open access: yesContemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 2015
China is experiencing rapid transition of urbanization. From the 1980s till now, the transformation of “village to residence” has become a prominent approach for numerous villages in the urban-fringe areas of China.
Chunlei Huang
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Reforming Public Service Provision: What Have We Learned? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The essay discusses some key features of the wawe of public sector reforms that has swept through the OECD area during the last three decades under the heading of New Public Management. I review what economic theory and the empirical evidence can say about the effects of introducing pay for performance, performance measurement and various forms of ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Managing 'mixedness': Understanding the effects of public sector reform in human service organisations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Our government is confronted with many unintended effects of policy programs. In order to address these problems, a large number of public sector reforms have been implemented over the past decades.
Bannink, D.B.D. (Duco)   +1 more
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Predicting Loss of Ambulation in Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy R9

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type R9 (LGMDR9) results from biallelic variants in FKRP. There is limited data to predict loss of ambulation (LOA) among those with LGMDR9. Methods Participants in an ongoing dystroglycanopathy natural history study (NCT00313677) with FKRP variants who had achieved ambulation and were more than 3 ...
Chandra L. Miller   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralization and local government performance improving public service provision in Bolivia.

open access: yesRevista de Economía del Rosario, 2010
Este artículo analiza algunas de las justificaciones más importantes para el desarrollo de procesos de descentralización, analiza sus fundamentos teóricos, y posteriormente describe los elementos de una nueva teoría descentralización, la cual ...
Jean Paul Faguet
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Digital technology-enabled public services and rural residents’ subjective wellbeing: synergies and pathways in China

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
IntroductionThe rapid advancement of digital technologies has made exploring how public service delivery impacts rural residents’ subjective well-being (SWB) a critical scholarly focus.
Hao Li   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bribes and local fiscal autonomy in Russia [PDF]

open access: yes
Russian industrial enterprises inherited from the Soviet era a tradition of producing welfare and infrastructure services within the firm, also for outside users.
Haaparanta , Pertti, Juurikkala, Tuuli
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Applying an Ethical Lens to the Treatment of People With Multiple Sclerosis

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The practice of neurology requires an understanding of clinical ethics for decision‐making. In multiple sclerosis (MS) care, there are a wide range of ethical considerations that may arise. These involve shared decision‐making around selection of a disease‐modifying therapy (DMT), risks and benefits of well‐studied medications in comparison to
Methma Udawatta, Farrah J. Mateen
wiley   +1 more source

Private Versus Public Health Care in a National Health Service [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper study the interplay between private and public health care in a National Health Service. We consider a two-stage game, where at stage one a Health Authority sets the public sector wage and a subsidy to (or tax on) private provision.
Brekke, Kurt R, Lars Sorgard
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Development of a Prediction Model for Progression Risk in High‐Grade Gliomas Based on Habitat Radiomics and Pathomics

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To investigate the value of constructing models based on habitat radiomics and pathomics for predicting the risk of progression in high‐grade gliomas. Methods This study conducted a retrospective analysis of preoperative magnetic resonance (MR) images and pathological sections from 72 patients diagnosed with high‐grade gliomas (52 ...
Yuchen Zhu   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

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