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Mobility patterns predict increasing polarization between neighborhoods. [PDF]

Soc Sci Res
Vachuska K, Norden-Bright M.
europepmc   +1 more source

“Hitting the Target, but Missing the Point” in Regulatory Impact Assessments: Does Bureaucratization Lead to Better RIAs?

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The extent to which Regulatory Impact Assessments (RIAs) conform to the “ideal” rational decision‐making model depends on factors such as political appropriation and the capacity of regulatory bodies. However, despite RIAs being embedded in bureaucratic settings, little research examines how the degree of formalization of RIA implementation ...
Alketa Peci, Leonardo Henrique Lima de Pilla, Flavio Saab, Luna Bouzada Flores Viana, Sergio Alonso Trigo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Candidates Benefit From Corruption? Opportunities for Corruption and the Prevalence of Candidates With Business Ties

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Which candidates benefit from corruption and favoritism in public procurement? While existing studies show that politically connected firms profit from corruption risks in public procurement, we know less about whether these risks also increase the prevalence of political candidates with ties to business.
Saverio Di Giorno, Monika Bauhr, Francesco Busato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond facilities, policy implications of the nursing home for senior citizens act. [PDF]

Palliat Support Care
Necosia RIMT, Necosia JVB, Mirasol JM, Lucero-Prisno DEI.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
wiley   +1 more source

Repeatability of Myotonometric Muscle Measurements in Infants Aged 0-3 Months: Toward an Objective Tool Supporting Early Motor Assessment. [PDF]

J Clin Med
Ptak A, Owczarek A, Browarska A, Romero-Galisteo RP, González-Sanchez M, Stefańska M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

The Emergence of Peace and Conflict Studies: Comparing Differences in the Creation of Academic Programs With Ties to Social Movements in US Higher Education

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article expands the sociological scholarship on the development of academic programs in intellectual fields tied to social movements. After briefly reviewing this literature, which has especially focused on fields like ethnic studies and women's studies, it examines the development of the smaller field of peace and conflict studies.
Elise Wolff
wiley   +1 more source