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Central versus Local Service Regulation: Accounting for Diverging Old-age Car…
In Sweden and Denmark, the development of old-age care has followed markedly divergent paths over the past 20 years. In both countries, the level of old-age care universalism was exceptionally high in the early 1980s. Since then it has dropped sharply in Sweden, while remaining constantly high in Denmark. These divergent trends are clearly irreconcilable with the common image of a coheren…
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- Vol. 42, No. 3, Page 267-287
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- 0144-5596
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- Social Policy & Administration
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The UK's gamete donor `crisis' - a critical analysis
Since April 2005, individuals donating sperm, eggs or embryos for the treatment of others in the UK have been required to agree to the disclosure of their identity to any child conceived as a result of their donation on reaching the age of 18. The main arguments advanced against the removal of donor anonymity are: first, it is responsible for a dramatic decline in the number of donors; se…
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- Vol. 28, No. 1, Issue 94, Page 74 - 95
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- 0261-0183
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- Critical Social Policy
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Single-Mother Families and Air Pollution: A National Study
Objective. This study uses tract-level demographic data and toxicity-weighted air pollutant concentration estimates for the continental United States to determine whether (1) single-mother families are overrepresented in environmentally hazardous Census tracts and (2) the percentage of single-mother families in a Census tract is a significant predictor of tract-level toxic concentration estimat…
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- Vol. 89, No. 2, Page 523-536
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- 0038-4941
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- Social Science Quarterly
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Exploring the Roles of Extracurricular Activity Quantity and Quality in the E…
This longitudinal study examines how extracurricular activity involvement contributes to "educational resilience" —the unexpected educational attainments of adolescents who are otherwise vulnerable to curtailed school success due to personal- and social-level risks. Educationally vulnerable youth characterized by significant risks and an absence of assets were identified during early ado…
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- Vol. 64, No. 1, Page 135-156
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- Journal of Social Issues
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Partisan Politics, Globalization, and the Determinants of Privatization Proce…
The 1990s have witnessed unprecedented attempts at privatizing state-owned enterprises in virtually all OECD democracies. This contribution analyzes the extent to which the partisan control of the government can account for the differences in the privatization proceeds raised by EU and OECD countries between 1990 and 2000. It turns out that privatizations are part of a process of economic…
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- Vol. 21, No. 1, Page 95-121
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- 0952-1895
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- Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions
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Calibrating Prejudice in Milliseconds
Psychological social psychologists have devoted great effort to measuring the elusive construct of unconscious prejudice. However, recent work underscores both the psychometric flaws of these measures and the weaknesses in claims that they predict behavior in realistic organizational settings. Before accepting unconscious prejudice as an inevitable source of individual-level disparate treatment…
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- Vol. 71, No. 1, Page 12-16
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- 0190-2725
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- Social Psychology Quarterly
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Citizens and Resource Allocation: Improving Decision Making with Interactive …
Collective consumption and benefit characterize many government services. Moreover, government services are mostly paid for collectively through taxes—there is little or no relationship between the taxes paid by a household and its use of a particular service. Public sector decision makers face complex budget problems with difficult solutions. Involving citizens meaningfully in these deci…
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- Vol. 68, No. 3, Page 564–575
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- 0033-3352
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- Public Administration Review
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Postponed Marriage: Exploring Women's Views of Matrimony and Work in Japan
Sociologists have argued that marriage today is based on individual desires, democratic contracts, and self-development. However, feminist scholars have criticized such a view of modern marriage, arguing that it obscures persistent inequality and social restrictions in marriage. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 26 highly educated Japanese women, this article argues that persistent gend…
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- Vol. 22, No. 2, page 219-237
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- 0891-2432
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- Gender & Society
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Using Cumulative Risk to Screen for Mental Health Problems in Child Welfare
This study tests the hypothesis that information typically collected during a maltreatment investigation can be used to screen children for mental health problems. Method: Data are from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. Cumulative risk scores were created for 3,022 children and compared to reports of clinical-level problems using standardized measures. Bivariate, mul…
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- Vol. 18, No. 2, Page 144-159
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- 1049-7315
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Place Branding: The State of the Art
This article examines the relevance of place branding as a political phenomenon in international politics. After setting place branding in a historical and conceptual context, it maps out the connections between branding and international politics by looking at three examples. First, it examines the challenges facing the European Union to strengthen its image as a global player. Second, i…
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- Vol. 616, No. 1, Page 126-149
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Harmonizing the Resistance, Resisting the Harmony: A Critical Discourse on th…
In Hong Kong, even though the Bill of Rights Ordinance (the localized version of ICCPR), Sex Discrimination Ordinance and a series of legal reforms were enacted and introduced respectively in 1991 and 1994, gender discrimination in legal discourse still persists. Chinese customary law, which only recognises the male's right to build small houses in the New Territories, remains an exceptio…
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- Vol. 36, No. 1, Page 79-103
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- 1568-4849
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- Asian Journal of Social Science
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The ambivalent dynamics of loyalty in mentorship
This investigation shows that mentorship loyalty is an ambivalent source of tension in the relationship. Data from in-depth interviews show that the mentoring attachment that is rooted in a protective, devoted, affectionate side of loyalty can also compel conformity, suppress dissent, and curb professional growth. The ambivalence stirred up by loyalty issues manifests itself in the nuts a…
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- Vol. 61, No. 3, Page 419-448
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- 0018-7267
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- Human Relations
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Contextual factors affecting the utility of surrogates within exploratory search
In this paper we investigate how information surrogates might be useful in exploratory search and what information it is useful for a surrogate to contain. By comparing assessments based on artificially created information surrogates, we investigate the effect of the source of information, the quality of an information source and the date of information upon the assessment process. We als…
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- Vol. 44, No. 2, Page 437-462
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- 0306-4573
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- Information Processing & Management
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Users can change their web search tactics: Design guidelines for categorized …
Categorized overviews of web search results are a promising way to support user exploration, understanding, and discovery. These search interfaces combine a metadata-based overview with the list of search results to enable a rich form of interaction. A study of 24 sophisticated users carrying out complex tasks suggests how searchers may adapt their search tactics when using categorized ov…
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- Vol. 44, No. 2, Page 463-484
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- 0306-4573
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- Information Processing & Management
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A review of the characteristics of black alder (Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn.)…
Black alder is a scattered, widespread and short-lived species that thrives in low-lying damp and riparian places. It has a use in flood control, stabilization of riverbanks and in functioning of the river ecosystems. To thrive, precipitation must exceed 1500 mm if access to groundwater is not possible. Alders are unusual among European trees in that they fix nitrogen. To regenerate naturally, …
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- Volume 83, Number 2, April 2010. Pp. 163-175
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- 0015752x
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- Forestry an International Journal of Forest Research
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Managing multi-ungulate systems in disturbance-adapted forest ecosystems in N…
Understanding how interactions among ungulate populations and their environmental dynamics play out across scales of time and space is a principal obstacle to managing ungulates in western North America. Morphological similarity, forage-base homogeneity and increasing animal density each enhance the likelihood of competitive interactions among sympatric populations. Competition is an interspeci…
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- Volume 83, Number 2, April 2010. Pp. 177-187
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- 0015752x
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- Forestry an International Journal of Forest Research
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Stratification, germination and emergence of mazzard seeds following 15- or 2…
Two seed lots of mazzard cherry (Prunus avium L.) seeds in stones with a 10–11 per cent moisture content (fresh weight basis) were stored in sealed containers at –3°C for 15 or 20 years. The seed lot stored for 20 years were stratified either in or without a substrate. Those stored for 15 years were stratified in a substrate. All seeds were kept at 25/3/25/3°C (2 + 2 + 2 + 14 weeks) or 3/25/3/2…
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- Volume 83, Number 2, April 2010. Pp. 189-194
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- 0015752x
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- Forestry an International Journal of Forest Research
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Forest canopy height retrieval using LiDAR data, medium-resolution satellite …
This paper presents a methodology that combines airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data with medium-resolution optical Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite imagery to predict stand canopy height in a study area in Aberfoyle, southern Scotland. Canopy height is an important forest variable that can provide information relating to forest structure, Yield Class, standing biomass and the…
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- Volume 83, Number 2, April 2010 Pp. 195-206
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- 0015752x
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- Forestry an International Journal of Forest Research
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Development of a policy and strategy for controlling infection by Heterobasid…
Heterobasidion annosum causes serious root disease in conifers: pines are generally killed but other species, such as Sitka spruce, are more susceptible to decay. In the mid-twentieth century, much of the expanding forest estate in Britain was disease free, but as thinning increased in plantations established over the preceding 30 years, it was expected that stump infection would increase; this…
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- Volume 83, Number 2, April 2010. Pp. 207-218
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- 0015752x
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- Forestry an International Journal of Forest Research
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Resilience in Public Administration: The Work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom fr…
This essay examines the remarkable careers of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, exploring polycentricity and human management of common property resources from the "no-name fields" of public administration in the late 1950s, through the metropolitan public service industries and public choice approach to democratic administration in the 1960s and 1970s and the institutional analysis of common pool res…
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- Volume 70 Issue 2, Mar-April 2010. Pages 193 - 202
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- 00333352
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- Public Administration Review
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