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Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 199-205, January/March 2025.
Abstract English local government faces a perilous position owing to insufficient funding, structural issues and capacity challenges. Fourteen years of austerity have significantly reduced council budgets, while increased demand for services—particularly adult social care—has strained resources.
David Jeffery
wiley   +1 more source

Qudit-Native Simulation of the Potts Model. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Gavreev MA, Kiktenko EO, Fedorov AK, Nikolaeva AS.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Ed Davey's Tory Removals: The Liberal Democrats and the 2024 General Election

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 83-90, January/March 2025.
Abstract The 2024 general election represented a remarkable comeback for the Liberal Democrats. Less than a decade on from the coalition and the 2015 election debacle, Sir Ed Davey's party reclaimed third‐party status in the House of Commons with seventy‐two MPs—the largest total for the Liberal Democrats or their Liberal Party predecessors since the ...
Peter Sloman
wiley   +1 more source

Robustness of Topological Phases on Aperiodic Lattices. [PDF]

Math Phys Anal Geom
Li Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Challenging the ‘S’ of Mayoral Strategic Authorities: Standardisation over Strategy?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Labour government's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) represents the most ambitious attempt yet to embed devolution and ‘empower communities’ across England, completing the map of devolution under mayoral strategic authorities.
Nicholas P. Sweeney
wiley   +1 more source

Quantum circuits from non-unitary sparse binary matrices. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Karuppasamy K, Puram V, George KM, Johnson TP.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

A Weyl Matrix Perspective on Unbounded Non-Self-Adjoint Jacobi Matrices. [PDF]

Complex Anal Oper Theory
Eichinger B, Lukić M, Young G.
europepmc   +1 more source

The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
wiley   +1 more source

Dissociation of Size and Distance Effect in Numerical Magnitude Comparison in Less Familiar Number Ranges. [PDF]

J Cogn
Garsmeur A, Morand R, Knops A.
europepmc   +1 more source