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Coalition Breakdown and Subsystem Exit
ABSTRACT Why actors choose to work together (or not) to advance policy has been the central area of inquiry within the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Existing research has mainly emphasized the pathway towards coalition formation and evolution, underscoring the stable patterns of allies and opponents observable in policy processes over a decade or
Charlie F. Thompson
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Project scheduling under undertainty – survey and research potentials. [PDF]
The vast majority of the research efforts in project scheduling assume complete information about the scheduling problem to be solved and a static deterministic environment within which the pre-computed baseline schedule will be executed. However, in the
Herroelen, Willy, Leus, Roel
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ABSTRACT Can sociologists feel? Sociological writing can be beautiful, making us think differently about people, processes, and structures. Yet traditional academic writing that does this is rare. For example, most articles adhere to a jargon‐filled format and structure that mimics a detached and disciplined writer.
Victoria Reyes
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Multi‐story building: A montage of STEM success through autobioracy
Abstract This paper presents a montage of STEM success stories, employing phenomenographic narrative research to gather and present people's lived experiences: their ‘STEM (life) stories’. We chart the experiences of members of the general public as they meet issues of STEM in their everyday lives and coin the term autobioracy, moving away from ...
Saima Salehjee, Mike Watts
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I stumbled when I saw: Fieldwork, fallibility, and the politics of being wrong
Abstract What does it mean for an anthropologist to be wrong? This essay takes the question seriously in two registers at once: the everyday mistakes of fieldwork, from mistranslating a greeting to misreading a shaved head as a sign of mourning, and the deeper entitlement through which our discipline claimed authority over other people's languages and ...
Mark Turin
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When greediness fails: Examples from stochastic scheduling [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to present examples which show that deterministic and stochastic scheduling problems often have a surprisingly different behavior.
Uetz,Marc
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Related vessel scheduling literature.
With the continuous prosperity of maritime transportation on a global scale and the resulting escalation in port trade volume, tugboats assume a pivotal role as essential auxiliary tools influencing the ingress and egress of vessels into and out of ports.
Jiale Tang (1917082) +2 more
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Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
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An integrated, high‐resolution map of cumulative anthropogenic pressures in the Northwest Atlantic, combining oil pollution, offshore infrastructure, vessel traffic and artificial light. This harmonized dataset supports reproducible assessments of cumulative risk and informs marine spatial planning, conservation and management across Canada's EEZ and ...
David Beauchesne +7 more
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Solution and quality robust project scheduling: a methodological framework. [PDF]
The vast majority of the research efforts in project scheduling over the past several years has concentrated on the development of exact and suboptimal procedures for the generation of a baseline schedule assuming complete information and a deterministic
Herroelen, Willy, Leus, Roel
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