Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding ...
Thenia Vagionaki
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Preoperative Risk Stratification of Adnexal Masses: A Narrative Review of Diagnostic Models and the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) Assessment of Different Neoplasias in the Adnexa (ADNEX) Performance. [PDF]
Padival A +4 more
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Abstract Objective Pathogenic variants in γ‐aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptor genes have been associated with a wide spectrum of neurological disorders. We aimed to delineate the clinical trajectories associated with gain‐of‐function (GoF) and loss‐of‐function (LoF) variants in GABRB2 and GABRB3, and to develop a risk‐prediction model for gross
Sebastian Ortiz +73 more
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A National Survey of Day Care Centers Hosting People With Dementia in Italy. [PDF]
Matascioli F +10 more
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Mechanisms of SCN2A loss of function do not predict presence or phenotype of epilepsy
Abstract Objective SCN2A loss‐of‐function (LoF) variants are associated with epilepsy (onset age ≥ 3 months), intellectual disability (ID), and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Despite numerous identified variants and the description of phenotypic subgroups, relationships between Nav1.2 channel dysfunction and clinical phenotypes remain unclear.
Marsha Tan +23 more
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Depressive symptoms as independent correlates of epilepsy‐related cognitive burden
Abstract Objective This study was undertaken to assess the relationship between the severity of depression and anxiety symptoms and epilepsy‐related variables and cognitive burden in people with epilepsy (PwE), as assessed using EpiTrack. Methods We prospectively enrolled a cohort of PwE who underwent EpiTrack and evaluation by Generalized Anxiety ...
Biagio Maria Sancetta +10 more
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School engagement and implications for future opportunities: Roma students' trajectories. [PDF]
Moreira T +4 more
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Epilepsy syndromes classification
Abstract Epilepsy syndromes are distinct electroclinical entities which have been recently defined by the International League Against Epilepsy Nosology and Definitions Task Force. Each syndrome is associated with “a characteristic cluster of clinical and EEG features, often supported by specific etiologic findings”.
Elaine C. Wirrell +4 more
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Barriers to primary health care: perspectives of marginalized Roma women and healthcare professionals. [PDF]
Plavnicka JM, Veselska ZD, Bobakova DF.
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