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Reconceptualizing Crisis: An Empirically Based Investigation

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
Crisis is predominantly characterized in terms of its detrimental consequences. Drawing on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews in Melbourne and Taipei, the article provides a critical and distinctive understanding of crisis. Crisis is conceptualized here as a disruptive prefiguring of new possibilities, both agentic and structural.
Xiaoying Qi
wiley   +1 more source

Tick-borne Disease Prevention: Still No Silver Bullet [PDF]

open access: bronze, 2016
Elizabeth Schiffman   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Service Accessibility in Prisons Under New Public Management: Incarcerated Women's Perspectives and Responses

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whilst the policy purpose of prisons is containment and rehabilitation, prisons must also provide a range of services to people who are incarcerated. Researchers have examined how service provision is complicated by features of the prison environment directed at safety and security, but less attention has been paid to the impact of ...
Brian Q. Jenkins   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial multi-criteria decision analysis for the selection of sentinel regions in tick-borne disease surveillance. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Guillot C   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Role of Information in the Street‐Level Bureaucrat–Client Relationship: Open‐Book Services and the Case of the Swedish Patient Accessible Electronic Health Record

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on how street‐level bureaucrats understand and manage information in their interactions with clients in the context of so‐called open‐book services, where digital tools make it possible for clients to easily access documentation conventionally viewed as internal work material for professionals' eyes only.
Jesper Petersson, Christel Backman
wiley   +1 more source

A comparison of strategies used by lecturers to improve students' perceived feelings toward statistics—A study that is Stat‐tastic!

open access: yesTeaching Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract One way of addressing anxiety in students studying statistics as a non‐specialist is dedicated statistics anxiety workshops, but some students are too anxious to attend such sessions. In this multi‐university study, lecturers presented content from such a workshop in one slide per session throughout their statistics teaching. This “Stat‐tastic
Anna Christian Riach   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tick-Borne Rickettsioses, Neglected Emerging Diseases in Rural Senegal

open access: gold, 2010
Oleg Mediannikov   +5 more
openalex   +2 more sources

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