A Tale of Two Cities: Framing urban diversity as content curation in super-diverse London and Toronto by Mike Raco, Tuna Taşan-Kok

“…In both we see a shift in policy making as a conscious attempt to reframe and re-imagine cities as corporate-like structures that can be conceptualised, represented, and managed through the lens of diversity management. …”
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Passive Defence in Tehran: An Evaluation of Legal Frameworks by Vahide Ebrahimnia, Mehrdad Ghaedi

“…Furthermore, although responsible authorities are formally named, the multiplicity of institutions and their conflicts of remit, as well as their weakness in establishing horizontal lines of communication diminish both the influence and efficiency of their decision- and policy-making.‎…”
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Clean energy and water conflicts: Contested narratives of small hydropower in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Oriental by Noah Silber-Coats

“…However, even if this narrative has dominated policy-making, it is being actively contested by a social movement that constructs these projects as water theft. …”
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Do Social Media, Good Governance, and Public Trust Increase Citizens’ e-Government Participation? Dual Approach of PLS-SEM and fsQCA by Marlan Hutahaean, Ixora Javanisa Eunike, Andri Dayarana K. Silalahi

“…Nevertheless, scant literature debates how e-government can facilitate citizen participation as part of the government’s deliberative policy-making process. To fill the gap, this study uses social media, good governance, and trust to predict e-government participation and testing the hypothesis using PLS-SEM and fsQCA on 455 Indonesian participants who have experience with e-government. …”
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A Review of Impact Assessment Indicators of Medical Research by Mansoureh Feizabadi, Fatemeh Fahimnia, Nader Naghshineh, Shahram Tofighi, Alireza Mosavi -Jarrahi

“…The aim of investment in health research is improvement of the state of policy-making, allocation of resources, practical application of research results, and improvement of public health. …”
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Pemenuhan Keadilan Lingkungan dalam Penerapan Kebijakan Tata Ruang Wilayah Kota Palembang by Azhar Azhar, Abdul Halim, Cynthia Azhara Putri

“…The involvement of the community and NGOs in policy-making is still minimal. In terms of social justice, there is still a lot of community production land, open green areas, and protected land such as swamp land which is used as economic and residential areas which are exacerbated by regulations issued by the government which is a source of environmental damage. …”
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Exploring the motivations of pregnant women to seek health information: A qualitative study by Marzieh Javanmardi, Mahnaz Noroozi, Firouzeh Mostafavi, Hasan Ashrafi-Rizi

“…Understanding the motivations of pregnant women to obtain health information can facilitate evidence-based policy-making to enhance their health literacy. Therefore, this study was conducted to explore the motivations of pregnant women to seek health information. …”
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Estimating road traffic impacts of commute mode shifts by Yue Hu, William Barbour, Kun Qian, Christian Claudel, Samitha Samaranayake, Daniel B. Work

“…The main contribution of this work is to provide a model to quantify the potential increase in commute travel times under various behavior changes, that can aid policy making for more efficient commuting.…”
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Establishing Animal Welfare Rules of Conduct for the Portuguese Veterinary Profession—Results from a Policy Delphi with Vignettes by Manuel Magalhães-Sant'Ana, Maria Conceição Peleteiro, George Stilwell

“…We expect that this study will support regulation and policy-making by the Portuguese Veterinary Order and by veterinary representative bodies elsewhere.…”
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Humans [plural] in the loop: the forgotten collective aspects of privacy, consenting, controlling, and digital protection by Soheil Human, Soheil Human, Soheil Human

“…This approach addresses the shortcomings of current practices dominated by service providers and advocates for innovative policy-making and technical advancements. By integrating collective supports with automation and other cognitive and contextual supports, the goal is to foster a sustainable and accountable digital future that ensures pluralism, inclusion, and human agency in the continuous co-creation, evaluation, and improvement of digital technologies.…”
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Ethics of Probabilistic Extreme Event Attribution in Climate Change Science: A Critique by Lennart Olsson, Henrik Thorén, David Harnesk, Johannes Persson

“…Here, we present six ethical predicaments, rooted in epistemic choices of single event attribution for policy making, with a focus on problems related to loss and damage. …”
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Construction and Structural Analysis of Inter-Regional Industrial Circular Network: A Case of the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yellow River in China by Chong Yin, Yingxin Cui, Yue Liu, Xiaoni Su

“…The model and method were verified in the case of the MLYR and have practical meaning in supporting policy-making on promoting high-quality development of China.…”
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Impact Analysis of Land Use on Traffic Congestion Using Real-Time Traffic and POI by Tianqi Zhang, Lishan Sun, Liya Yao, Jian Rong

“…This study makes contributions to the policy-making of urban land use.…”
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The Efficiency of Regional Higher Education Systems and Competition in Russia by Oleg Valerievich Leshukov, Daria Pavlovna Platonova, Dmitry Sergeevich Semyonov

“…Taking into account all limitations of the study, these results contain several important issues for policy-making and higher education research discussions. …”
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The challenges associated with the prevention of smuggling and counterfeiting health goods in Iran by Farzaneh Mahmoudi Meymand, Amirhossein Takian, Ebrahim Jaafaripooyan

“…Therefore, strengthening policy-making, regulatory frameworks, and facilitation functions about smuggling, counterfeiting, and corruption should be promoted in parallel.…”
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Investigating the Usage Pattern of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Users of E-journals during 2010-2012 based on Counter Reporting by Sara Jalalzaeh, Fahimeh Abbasi

“…Conclusion: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences has a good manner in meeting the users’ information needs by appropriate policy-making and specifying efficient fund in selecting available journals by Elsevier. …”
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Unfolding and modeling the recovery process after COVID lockdowns by Xuan Yang, Yang Yang, Chenhao Tan, Yinghe Lin, Zhengzhe Fu, Fei Wu, Yueting Zhuang

“…Simulation experiments using our model offer insights for policy-making: the government should prioritize supporting sectors that have greater influence on others and are influential on the whole economy.…”
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Policies and measures implemented to reduce the impact of international sanctions on Iran's pharmaceutical sector by Farideh Emami, Abdol Majid Cheraghali

“…Conclusions and implications: Effective policy-making in response to economic sanctions can reduce the negative effect of international sanctions and result in drug shortages. …”
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Youth in Nation-Building: A Qualitative Study on National and Local Participation in Socio-Political Issues among Students by Ghea Lennette E. Calawa, Earl Jhoen M Decuzar, Dean Genesis M Terrible, Vina Mae N Alubong

“…Through the use of key informant interviews and focused group discussions, the researchers found that participants have engaged and participated in different socio-political issues on a national or local scale, such as civic engagement, volunteerism, policy-making, joining the labor sector, safeguarding and preserving national sovereignty, information drive to combat cultural discrimination and misinformation, and such. …”
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Pathways to the ‘Good Life’: Co-Producing Prosperity Research in Informal Settlements in Tanzania by Saffron Woodcraft, Emmanuel Osuteye, Tim Ndezi, Festo D. Makoba

“…By co-producing both an agreed and relevant methodological approach for the study, and its subsequent documentation and analysis, this work contributes valuable empirical insights about the capacities and capabilities of local communities to shape and influence urban policy-making and in this way speaks to calls for a global urbanism (Ong, 2011; Robinson, 2016) that brings diverse voices and geographies to urban theory to better account for the diversity of urban experiences and processes found in twenty-first century cities.…”
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