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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"policy transfer"”.
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Making Sense of Extended Producer Responsibility: Towards a framework for policy transfer
Policy transfer of complex interventions often falls into the trap of uninformed, incomplete, and/or inappropriate transfer because the interventions are insufficiently identified with some of their perceived core components. This is no exception in the interspatial learning about extended producer …
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Strengthening cross-cultural policy transfer : the case of international health promotion and tobacco control
The study refers to the issue of cross-cultural transfer of internationally initiated health promotion and tobacco control policies. It explores the process of cross-cultural policy transfer, analyses the difficulties, proposes methods to overcome them, and tests the approach in Bulgaria. Generally …
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Adapt-to-learn policy transfer in reinforcement learning and deep model reference adaptive control
… to fail many times before exploring optimal policy. Therefore, they are highly sample-expensive and lack stability guarantees and hence not suitable for safety-critical systems. This thesis presents control algorithms for robotics where the best of both worlds that is ``Adaptation'' and …
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Defining and Analyzing Negative Policy Transfer: National Orphan Drug Regulatory Policy in Canada and Australia
The existing policy transfer literature has largely ignored the study of negative transfer, resulting in various conceptualizations and a lack of tools for examining these cases. This study develops a novel analytical framework for explaining negative transfer, focusing on the three major pathways …
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Investigating policy transfer from both sides: case study of a technical and vocational education and training model in South Africa
… developed in the United States and successfully transferred to twelve sites in South Africa. This process took several years to complete, and the new TDM-Powered Program, aimed at skill development in the tool, die, and mold-making industry has now been running for four years. The research …
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The global politics of policy circulation in higher education: A case study of Paraguay 1998-2008
… is concerned with the idea of global policy transfer, as it has increasingly appeared in the literature of policy studies, and has been used to understand recent educational policy transformations around the world. To carry out this investigation, I have conducted a case study of …
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Exporting resilience : evaluating US-Netherlands collaborations aimed at enhancing flooding resilience in New York City and New Orleans
… cities of New York and New Orleans against the policy transfer frameworks of Dolowitz and Marsh (1996 and 2000) and Matsuura (2006), and then discusses alternative frameworks through which these collaborations can be considered. In New Orleans, policy transfer frameworks succeed in modeling the …
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South African Police reform in the 1990s : internal processes and external influences
In the contemporary era policy-making is increasingly being shaped by non-domestic influences and actors. The mobility of policy ideas and mechanisms across time and space provides a challenge: How best to conceptualise the routes and modes of travelling whereby ideas and instruments are …
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multirotor Flight Control: A Comparative Study of Sim-to-Real Training and Real-World Performance
… on factors that most influence sim-to-real policy transfer. Using the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm, extensive ablation studies evaluated the effects of domain randomization, reward weighting, observation representation, and neural network architecture. Policies were trained …
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Integrated river basin management for the Ganges: lessons from the Murray-Darling and Mekong River Basins (a Bangladesh perspective).
… better management of the Ganges. However, the policy transfer from a developed country to a developing country context is a challenging process. The highly pertinent contextual differences in social, economic, political, environmental and hydrological settings of the three cases need to be …
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The Global Politics of Policy Circulation in Higher Education: A Case Study of Paraguay 1998--2008
… that, in the current period of globalization, policy environments within the borders of the nation-state cannot be adequately understood without an understanding of the role that externalities---exogenous factors and institutions---play in the processes of policy making. However, the influence …
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A comparative study of the environmental laws of India and the UK with special reference to their enforcement
… is a comparative study of environmental law and policy in India and the UK. The study uses research methodology based on comparative law method, concepts of lesson drawing and policy transfer from political science, and socio-legal approaches. This study concludes that India should take measures …
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Poor law reform and policy innovation in rural southern England, c.1780-1850
… of the poor laws. This thesis deploys a ‘policy process’ understanding of social policies, a concept developed in the social sciences, to understand the processes driving social policies under the poor laws.<br/><br/>The thesis deploys a more holistic approach to understanding the poor …
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Considerations Concering the Transfer of Urban Environmental and Planning Policies From Germany to the United States
… urban environmental planning and the transfer of urban environmental planning practices. This gap is characterized by a dearth of understanding about the process of transfer and adaptation of environmental and urban planning policies into the U.S. from overseas in general, and from …
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Localizing public dispute resolution in Japan : lessons from experiments with deliberative policy-making
… negotiation and dispute resolution, as well as policy transfer theorists, have raised concerns about cross-border transfers by referring to a variety of contextual differences between the "importing" and "exporting" countries. This dissertation investigates the relationship between the context …
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Democratization and police reform
… background of this study are theories about policy diffusion and policy transfer. Therefore this study can be categorized as part of two different research areas. On the one hand, it is a paper from the discipline of International Relations. On the other hand, it is a paper from the …
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Development Programming for Persons with Disabilities in Gulu, Uganda in the Context of a Disability - Poverty - Conflict Nexus
… to identify the ways in which this international policy idea has influenced development programming, and the obstacles to implementing community-based rehabilitation in Gulu. This research contributes to the literature on policy transfer, and illustrates how local development actors often lack the …
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Grounding natural language with autonomous interaction
… tackle the challenging problem of cross-domain policy transfer for reinforcement learning (RL). We employ a model-based RL approach consisting of a differentiable planning module, a model-free component and a factorized state representation to effectively make use of text. Our model outperforms …
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International Politics of Health Promotion and Tobacco Control - Improvement of the Process of Transcultural Transfer // Международна политика за промоция на здраве и контрол на тютюнопушенето - подобряване процеса на транскултурален трансфер
Analyzing the porting process (transcultural transfer) of European policy on health promotion and tobacco control to Bulgarian context is the subject of this thesis. Along with it, we try to identify the difficulties in this process and develop a performance improvement approach. International …
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Embedded Cities, Excluded Citizens: Governance, Housing, and Rroma Marginality in Post-Socialist Romania
… how local governance conditions social housing policy and the lived experience of Rroma in Romania. Focusing on Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca, it asks: To what extent have European Union housing initiatives improved Rroma access to adequate and affordable housing, and where have they fallen short in …
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