Can Coercive Vertical Consolidation Improve the Financial Condition of Local Authorities?
ABSTRACT Vertical consolidation of small local authorities providing neighborhood services and large authorities providing strategic services into unitary authorities is assumed to improve financial condition by creating new economies of scale and scope.
Rhys Andrews, Dennis De Widt
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The impact of revitalized urban and rural recreation infrastructure on usage levels: evidence from a longitudinal quasi-experimental study in Alberta, Canada. [PDF]
Belon AP +3 more
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Gaming behavior changes in families: Mothers and children during the COVID‐19 pandemic
ABSTRACT Objective We examined changes in gaming behavior among families with young children during the COVID‐19 pandemic and their association with pre‐pandemic media use types and family climate. Background The pandemic reshaped families' mediatized daily lives.
Simone Schüller +4 more
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Climate emotions and climate justice: exploring the role of affective engagement and existential experience in sport for development and peace. [PDF]
Kwauk CT, Hayhurst LMC, Iqbal I.
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Family Leisure and Emerging Adults' Well‐Being: The Mediating Role of Family Cohesion
ABSTRACT Objective This study examined whether family cohesion and family adaptability mediate the associations between core (i.e., everyday, inexpensive, home‐based) and balance (i.e., less common, novel) family leisure activities and emerging adults' well‐being, as indicated by positive affect, negative affect, self‐concept clarity, and meaning in ...
Amy M. Kolak +2 more
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Association of prehospital optimal blood pressure and peripheral oxygen saturation with hospital outcomes in sports-related and recreation-related traumatic brain injury (SRR-TBI) in Asia. [PDF]
Chantanakomes J +7 more
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ABSTRACT Data on recreational fisheries are often limited, and scientists increasingly use digital platforms to collect information otherwise difficult to obtain. Using telephone‐diary survey data, this study examines angling‐related media use (face‐to‐face communication, angling magazines, TV or radio, YouTube, messenger services, social media, other ...
Wolf‐Christian Lewin +2 more
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Urban land-use filtering favors herbaceous spontaneous flora and reshapes alien-native composition in a semi-humid inland city. [PDF]
Wang Y +5 more
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Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Change
ABSTRACT The gender gap in non‐agricultural employment in developing countries is concentrated among rural married workers. Within‐family specialization is central: Married women spend more time on home production, work fewer market hours, and are less likely to incur fixed costs of entering non‐agriculture.
Huoqing Cao, Chaoran Chen, Xican Xi
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What guidance is available for people with epilepsy wanting to participate in sport and exercise? A narrative review. [PDF]
Williams B +6 more
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