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Showing 1 to 20 of 159 for “"Public welfare"”.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PUBLIC WELFARE POLICIES: ADOPTIONS, PERCEPTIONS AND TRUST
… adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the public sector have on society? I was inspired by this question to conduct five studies using multidisciplinary and multi-methods research designs. While most research focuses on the private sector or pioneering countries in digitalization and public …
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DEPRESSION AND FACTORS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AMONG MALAY, CHINESE AND INDIAN ELDERLY WOMEN AT RUMAH SERI KENANGAN (RSK), PUBLIC WELFARE INSTITUTIONS IN MALAYSIA
… living in four Rumah Seri Kenangans (RSKs), or public welfare institutions in Malaysia. Face-to-face interviews were conducted from August to October 2013 to measure participants' baseline depression, perceived social support, spiritual intelligence, self-esteem, and level of social …
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Social services and twentieth century social welfare policy
… made social services an important instrument of public welfare reform. The law represented the culmination of a half-century effort on the part of public welfare officials to secure recognition for public social services as a distinctive yet integral feature of progressive social welfare policy …
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The longer-term labour market and community impacts of deindustrialisation: a comparison of the Northumberland coalfield and the Monongahela Valley mill towns
… decisions have interacted with the local public welfare and cultural context to produce profound long-term community changes, critically affecting future generations of workers. It compares the reasons for, and impacts of, these adjustments in two study areas; the Northumberland coalfield …
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The changing demography of Scotland and the impact on the labour market for volunteer labour
… demography will affect individual prosperity and public welfare. This dissertation investigates the effects that various levels of migration, fertility, and mortality may have on reducing this ageing and declining population, as well as the ageing work force. It is found that a positive migration …
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The Strategic Balance between the Public and Allies: A Theory of Authoritarian Distribution in China
… the demands of both the ruling coalition and the public from a perspective of distributional politics. This challenge is particularly severe since authoritarian regimes face increasing pressure to expand public goods and welfare. This project proposes a theory of authoritarian distribution that …
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An Assessment of Federal Welfare Reform Policy in Texas
… in the United States through an examination of public welfare reform policies. Born from the need for national fiscal constraints, welfare reform has been fueled by public opinion concerned with a variety of social disorders, a strong national conservative trend, and political considerations. In …
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Experiments in Social Salvation: The Settlement Movement in Chicago, 1890-1910
… motives to their expanding assumptions regarding public welfare in their pursuit of social salvation. The settlement community advanced a methodology of experimentation and flexibility, which was instrumental to the transformation of nineteenth century ideas of charity into the new twentieth …
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Proposal for New Commuter Rail Service and TOD Master Plan Along Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway
… on investment sectors, innovative methods, public-private collaborations, and public welfare initiatives, all bolstered by the creation of a Joint Development Company. The report high- lights the importance of a people-first approach, station-city integration, and transit-oriented …
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ENCOURAGING PREVENTIVE ACTION BY EMPLOYING EFFECTIVE RHETORIC IN PUBLIC COMMUNICATION OF THE ZIKA HAZARD AND ASSOCIATED RISKS
… is that any time endemic threats pose risks to public welfare or become threats to national health and security, scholars from all fields should reevaluate how their current and developing skills and knowledge could be employed to help prevent and/or minimize negative outcomes when outbreaks …
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Political Regimes and Social Well-Being in the Sahel: An Analysis of Gendered Development and Children's Education
… power and prioritize regime stability over public welfare, leading to chronic underfunding of education and health services. In Mali and Burkina Faso, repeated coups and insecurity have affected schools and hospitals, disproportionately affecting girls and displaced women. Chad's one-party …
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Critical systems thinking, dialogue and quality management in the National Health Service
… between what the NHS produces and what the public requires of it. It is argued that this gap is unfair because of the generally unequal access of stakeholders to decisions about quality in the NHS. It is suggested that only through dialogue can the gap be reduced in size in a non-oppressive …
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A comparison of health technology adoption in four countries (Japan, Korea, the UK, and the US)
… suggests clustering health technologies into “welfare oriented technology” and “private benefit oriented technology” by considering the economic incentives of adopters, individual desires of consumers and public concern over the technology. Private benefit oriented technologies are those which …
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Trade Secrets and International Investment Law
… trade secret. British investors in the Czech Republic and Kenya have acted on that displeasure by bringing claims against those states under investment promotion and protection treaties. While the protection of trade secrets has been noted by commentators, there is yet to be a detailed analysis …
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