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Pandemic data quality modelling: a Bayesian approach in the Italian case
When pandemics like COVID-19 spread around the world, the rapidly evolving situation compels officials and executives to take prompt decisions and...
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Intra-migrant workplace conflict: impediment to improving migrants’ workforce integration
This study examines the tensions between newcomer migrants and established immigrants in the workforce in the United Kingdom. Semi-structured...
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Training Returns Among Informal Workers: Evidence from Urban Sites in Kenya and Tanzania
Training contributes to economic growth through raising productivity, enabling the use of new technologies and allowing workers to raise earnings...
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The Silver Lining in the Clouds: A Commentary on Stephen Turner’s “Mad Hazard, a Life in Social Theory”
While it is true that to do social theory is to become an observer of life and its development from an outside perspective, it is also true that, in...
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Improving Women’s Position in the Household: Evidence from a Maternity Cash Transfer Programme in India
The impacts of cash transfers on women empowerment vary significantly with transfer context and design, including beneficiary targeting, transfer...
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Allocation of public health services across urban and rural regions and armed conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa
Armed conflicts exacerbate public health challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. Inequality across groups and poverty in rural areas can be an important...
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The Failing Aid Complex in Uganda’s Northeast
Every year about thirty billion dollars are spent on aid across Africa, yet recurrent crises followed by a blame game amongst different actors, and a...
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Firm-Centered Approaches to Overcoming Semi-Peripheral Constraints
Scholars of economic development in the Global South and of industrial policy in the Global North are increasingly advocating top-down policies by a...
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Perceptions of incarcerated people: prison conditions, public health, and justice in the United States
Carceral conditions in the United States may serve as a proxy for crises within justice and health systems. This study seeks to consider and measure...
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The Circle of Accountability: Examining Accountability when and Power-Related Implications in the Context of Credit Unions
This paper explores the timing of accountability, systematically examining ‘ accountability when?’ in the context of Indonesian credit unions as...
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Voices of neoliberal freedom: convergent perspectives of young Chilean men from contrasting social positions
Despite their often perceived linearity, the past, present, and future are intricately woven together. Previous experiences shape our perception,...
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On how breaking traffic rules affects vehicle flow
Traffic flow simulations typically assume that all drivers follow traffic rules, except for minor deviations. However, in many countries, drivers...
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Jewish Spaces in Present Vienna: A Relational, Hybrid Approach
In October 2017, Vienna’s Leopoldstadt community succeeded in reinstalling a Hebrew street sign in a public space of the second district. This...
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Evaluating the St. George’s respiratory questionnaire in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a systematic review with meta-analysis of psychometric properties using COSMIN
BackgroundThe St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) and its idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) version (SGRQ-I) are widely used to assess...
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The Orchestration of Sociology in a New Key: Consonances and Dissonances
Nine distinguished scholars contributed to the review symposium on Sociology in a New Key , offering critiques, approval, and suggestions for further...
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The Ethical and Privacy Implications of Datafication and Digitalization in Develo** Country Contexts
The chapter investigates ethical and privacy concerns resulting from digitalization and datafication in the Global South, drawing from a systematic...
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The impact of improved beehive technology adoption on rural household income, consumption expenditure and asset wealth in Wonchi districts, Ethiopia
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of adopting enhanced beehive technology on the welfare of rural households engaged in...
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Targeted Poverty Alleviation for the Livelihood Improvement of Poverty-Stricken Households: A Case Study of Wuxi County, China
This paper explores the effects of different types of policy measures on poverty-stricken households’ (PSHs’) livelihood strategy transitions in...
