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Can Coercive Vertical Consolidation Improve the Financial Condition of Local Authorities?

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vertical consolidation of small local authorities providing neighborhood services and large authorities providing strategic services into unitary authorities is assumed to improve financial condition by creating new economies of scale and scope.
Rhys Andrews, Dennis De Widt
wiley   +1 more source

Models of Holomorphic Functions on the Symmetrized Skew Bidisc. [PDF]

open access: yesIntegr Equ Oper Theory
Evans C, Lykova ZA, Young NJ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Performance Measurement Systems and Academic Managers’ Gaming Behavior

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how academic managers operating under managerialist control translate performance measurement systems (PMSs) into local gaming practices within business schools. These systems, implemented under neoliberal and managerialist reforms, shape institutional governance by prioritizing research outputs, student satisfaction, and ...
Shahenda Shehata, Lee D. Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Differentiation and Mentalization in Couple Adjustment: An Actor–Partner Mediation Model

open access: yesFamily Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine whether mentalization mediates the association between self‐differentiation and dyadic adjustment in couples using a dyadic model. Background Self‐differentiation (balancing intimacy and autonomy) and mentalization (understanding one's own and others' mental states) are both linked to relationship functioning, yet their ...
Buket Ünver
wiley   +1 more source

Emulation of coherent absorption of Fock-state quantum light in a programmable linear photonic circuit. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun
Krishna G   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Hatching failure and embryo mortality in endangered populations of Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata)

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
Hatching failure represents a significant and growing barrier to reproductive success in threatened birds and yet is often poorly understood. Populations of the Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland have experienced significant declines over recent decades, and low breeding productivity is a major barrier to ...
Jamie Edward Thompson, Nicola Hemmings
wiley   +1 more source

Observation of Restored Adiabatic State Transfer in Time-Modulated Non-Hermitian Systems. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun
Wang X   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Promoting Foreign Language Enjoyment Through Displaying Affiliation in Collaborative Digital Multimodal Composing in Hong Kong ESL Classrooms: Insights From Translanguaging and Transpositioning Perspectives

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studies on classroom interactions suggest that displaying affiliation through linguistic and multimodal resources could promote positive emotions like enjoyment, thereby enhancing engagement and enthusiasm in second/foreign language learning.
Karen C. K. Choi, Kevin W. H. Tai
wiley   +1 more source

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