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Rural Citizen Satisfaction With Drinking Water Supply: Public Policy Imperatives for a South African Municipality

open access: yesJournal of Public Affairs, Volume 25, Issue 4, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Many rural households in developing countries face serious water supply challenges, which make achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 a pipe dream. Radical policy interventions are required to improve access to a safely managed water supply, yet evidence‐based public policymaking is usually lacking.
Sinethemba B. Mpisane   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exogamy, Proximity to Parents, and the Residential Choices of 1.5‐ and Second‐Generation Immigrants in Sweden

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 31, Issue 8, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Living near kin facilitates intergenerational support, which may be especially important for immigrant families. For 1.5‐ and second‐generation immigrants, this creates a tension between residential integration and family obligations. This tension can grow when forming a union, particularly with a nonimmigrant.
Benjamin F. Jarvis, Jenjira J. Yahirun
wiley   +1 more source

Bugbears in the Waiting Room: Revisiting Arber and Sawyer's Classic Study of GP Reception Work Using Ethnography in Eight English General Practices

open access: yesSociology of Health &Illness, Volume 47, Issue 8, November 2025.
ABSTRACT In 1985, Arber and Sawyer described the discretionary rationing power of general practice receptionists. Our paper revisits this territory. Much has changed in the intervening decades. Digitalisation has altered reception work. Increasing multimorbidity and rising chronic illness, combined with a dwindling workforce, restricted funding and ...
Catherine Pope   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Time Series Embedding Methods for Classification Tasks: A Review

open access: yesExpert Systems, Volume 42, Issue 11, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Time series analysis has become crucial in various fields, from engineering and finance to healthcare and social sciences. Due to their multidimensional nature, time series often need to be embedded into a fixed‐dimensional feature space to enable processing with various machine learning algorithms.
Habib Irani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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