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How effective are incident reporting systems for improving patient safety? A systematic literature review [PDF]

, 2015
Context: Incident reporting systems (IRSs) are used to gather information on patient safety incidents. However, and despite the financial burden they imply, little is known about their effectiveness. This paper reviews systematically the effectiveness of
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Are Local Authorities Building Their Capacity to Plan for Reduced Climate Impact? A Longitudinal Analysis of Swedish Comprehensive Plans

Land, 2021
Spatial planning conducted by the local authorities has been identified as a key part of shaping carbon-neutral societies. Nevertheless, the question of whether local authorities are building their institutional capacity for integrating climate change ...
Vincent Wretling, Berit Balfors
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Digital Livestock Technologies as boundary objects: Investigating impacts on farm management and animal welfare

Animal Welfare, 2023
Digital Livestock Technologies (DLTs) can assist farmer decision-making and promise benefits to animal health and welfare. However, the extent to which they can help improve animal welfare is unclear.
Juliette Schillings, Richard Bennett, Françoise Wemelsfelder, David C Rose   +3 more
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Integrative learning for practicing adaptive resource management

Ecology and Society, 2015
Adaptive resource management is a learning-by-doing approach to natural resource management. Its effective practice involves the activation, completion, and regeneration of the "adaptive management cycle" while working toward achieving a flexible set of ...
Craig A. McLoughlin, Martin C. Thoms
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Learning and steering: changing implementation patterns and the Greek central government [PDF]

, 2001
Greece is frequently characterized as a laggard in the implementation of EU policy. This article examines the key characteristics of the Greek central government and links them to patterns of policy implementation.
Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G.
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Learning in Adaptive Management: Insights from Published Practice

Ecology and Society, 2014
Adaptive management is often advocated as a solution to understanding and managing complexity in social-ecological systems. Given the centrality of learning in adaptive management, it remains unclear how learning in adaptive management is understood to ...
Christo Fabricius, Georgina Cundill
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Basic protocols in quantum reinforcement learning with superconducting circuits [PDF]

, 2017
Superconducting circuit technologies have recently achieved quantum protocols involving closed feedback loops. Quantum artificial intelligence and quantum machine learning are emerging fields inside quantum technologies which may enable quantum devices ...
Lamata, Lucas
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Factors Affecting Government Use of Social Media for Service Provision [PDF]

مطالعات رسانه‌های نوین, 2023
IntroductionNowadays, social networks are an essential part of daily life, and it's safe to say that the majority of the world's population uses at least one social media platform.
Seyed Mohammadbagher Jafari, Alireza Amirkabiri, hossein amjadi   +2 more
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Human resource development in construction organisations: an example of a 'chaordic' learning organisation? [PDF]

, 2006
Purpose/ Methodology/Approach The concept of the Learning Organisation (LO) is associated with an advanced approach to Human Resource Development (HRD) characterised by an ethos of self-responsibility and self-development.
Dainty, ARJ, Raidén, AB
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Variance Reduction Optimization Algorithm Based on Random Sampling [PDF]

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The stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithms have been applied to machine learning and deep learning due to their superior performance. However, SGD requires the stochastic gradient of a single sample to approximate the full gradient of all samples ...
GUO Zhenhua, YAN Ruidong, QIU Zhiyong, ZHAO Yaqian, LI Rengang
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