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Text as tape: On the voice in the late prose of Friederike Mayröcker

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract For a text to have a voice means to be caught in a paradox: the text obviously does not speak, so what is that tone rising from the pages? Taking hold of a striking ambivalence, this essay examines the relationship between text and voice in the late prose of Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker.
Astrid Elander
wiley   +1 more source

How do US States Approach Multi‐Year Expenditure Forecasting?

open access: yesPublic Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, 30 states publish multi‐year expenditure forecasts, while the remaining exhibit variation in their financial planning practices. Building on the literature examining budget forecasts, this study provides insights from interviews with eight states selected using a typology from a cluster analysis.
Christelle Khalaf   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coproduction as a Causal Process

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT That many public goods and services are coproduced jointly by government agencies (regular producers) together with clients and citizens (consumer producers) represents a fundamental insight, although it has proven a challenge to define coproduction clearly and to study it rigorously.
Gregg G. Van Ryzin
wiley   +1 more source

New York City\u27s Pothole Law: In Need of Repair [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
In 1979, New York City enacted a local law requiring prior written notice of a defect before the city may be found liable for injuries resulting from potholes.
Frank, Terri J.
core   +1 more source

Explaining Burden Reduction in Municipal Service Delivery: The Case of Streamlined Electric Vehicle Charger Permitting in California

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Administrative burdens are deliberate policy choices, as governments can proactively design rules and procedures to shape burdens experienced by citizens. While existing research has examined the effects of burden reduction strategies, less is known about the factors driving burden reduction actions at the local level.
Shan Zhou, Emma Mast
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Electric Vehicles on Traffic Assignment and Carbon Emission for Road Network: Modeling and Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Transportation
This paper develops a method for estimating carbon-emission specific road networks, considering the presence of electric vehicles (EVs). A mixed equilibrium traffic assignment model is set up to obtain the traffic volume for each link in the network ...
Zhaolei Zhang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effects of alcohol on driver performance in a decision making situation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1978
The results are reviewed of driving simulator and in-vehicle field test experiments of alcohol effects on driver risk taking. The objective was to investigate changes in risk taking under alcoholic intoxication and relate these changes to effects on ...
Allen, R. W.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

“One Is a Frontier”: Settler Migration as Transmogrification

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the trajectories and framing strategies of American Jewish migrants to Palestine–Israel. Drawing on original in‐depth interviews with immigrants who migrated between 1976 and 2021, alongside interviews with and observations of an “aliyah” agency, it examines meaning‐making around spatial relocation in relation to the ...
Joseph Kaplan Weinger
wiley   +1 more source

Аssessment of the degree of deformation of sections of the Сhikola – Мatsuta highway crossing large landslide arrays (Irafsky district, Republic of North Ossetia – Alania)

open access: yesНаука. Инновации. Технологии
The object of the study is landslide activity on the Chikola-Matsuta highway passing through the territory of the Irafsky district of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania.
V. V. Razumov   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Roadway safety barrier

open access: yes, 2019
A roadway safety barrier, comprising: a number of lower components, a number of concrete upper components coupled on the lower components, and connection means for connecting the successive upper components to one another at the facing ends thereof. The lower components present an upper surface featuring a longitudinal channel for the coupling of a ...
Rico Arenal, Jokin   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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