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Producing Mobility, Withholding Authority: Epistemic Drain and Nursing Sovereignty in Nepal

open access: yesNursing Philosophy, Volume 27, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Global discussions of nursing in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) are dominated by the language of shortage, staffing, retention, and migration. Although useful, this technocratic vocabulary obscures a deeper philosophical crisis: nurses may be numerically produced yet institutionally denied authority over knowledge, care, and ...
Animesh Ghimire
wiley   +1 more source

Simultaneous Generation of Topographic Models and Manning Roughness Coefficient Maps From Tri‐Stereoscopic Satellite Images: Application to the Huarmey River, Peru

open access: yesThe Photogrammetric Record, Volume 41, Issue 195, July/September 2026.
Tri‐stereoscopic PeruSat‐1 imagery enables the simultaneous generation of 0.70 m‐resolution topography and spatially distributed Manning roughness maps, achieving 0.434 m vertical accuracy. Integrated into HEC‐RAS, these products provide consistent, high‐resolution inputs that improve hydraulic modelling and flood risk assessment in data‐scarce river ...
Jorge L. Miranda‐Pita   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Prospects of Remote E-Voting in Russia

open access: yesSociology. Politology, 2016
openaire   +1 more source

Frontline Workers and Civic Tech: Bridging the Responsiveness Gap in Digital Client Encounters

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, Volume 86, Issue 4, Page 1045-1059, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT As governments increasingly digitalize client encounters, there are growing concerns that standardized platforms may reduce bureaucratic responsiveness, particularly for historically underserved communities. We examine whether frontline workers help close that gap through their use of civic‐tech platforms.
Gregory A. Porumbescu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Safeguarding Merit: Citizen Support for Civil Service Protections Against Political Interference

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, Volume 86, Issue 4, Page 1091-1105, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT President Trump altered the U.S. federal civil service system by reducing merit‐based protections for bureaucratic expertise and expanding the scope of political appointments, shifting the balance long established under the Pendleton Act of 1883. Similar reforms have occurred at the state level with moves to at‐will employment.
Colt Jensen, Jaclyn Piatak
wiley   +1 more source

Fragmented Spatialities. Migrant Farmworkers and the Social Production of Space Under Neoliberal Agriculture in the EU

open access: yesSociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT The living spaces of migrant farmworkers remain a relatively underexamined dimension of contemporary agriculture in the European Union. This article examines the sociospatial organisation of agricultural areas under neoliberal agriculture—characterised by technification and entrepreneurial rationalisation of production, integration into global
Juan Castillo‐Rojas‐Marcos
wiley   +1 more source

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