This thesis examines theories of analysis, evaluation, and learning in policy development and applies them to a case study of developing legislation in Massachusetts to manage used motor oil from people who change their own oil. Policy-oriented learning is facilitated by open consensus building processes that build understanding of policy problems and solutions through discourse and argument. W...

The emerging consensus on the boundaries and main elements of the Software Engineering (SE) discipline represents an opportunity for the engineering of shared conceptualizations that may serve both to design automated tools and tasks that help in diverse phases and aspects of the software process, and also to annotate learning–oriented resources. Formal ontologies provide an appropriate logics–...

This paper analyzes changing higher education policies in Poland in the last two decades. It argues that top Polish public universities became divided, with different individual academic and institutional trajectories in the academic fields in which educational expansion occurred (social sciences) and in fields in which it was much less pronounced (natural sciences). Using the concepts drawn fr...

The proposal that mental health workers should explicitly train to become ‘recovery-oriented practitioners’ has been gathering pace for over a decade (O’Hagan 2001; National Institute for Mental Health in England 2004a). It is now supported by professional endorsements (Care Services Improvement Partnership 2007), national policy (Department of Health 2011), advocacy from non-statutory organisa...

the most important goal of each society, is to reach economic development. as the goal and agent of development, man has got an important responsibility, which responsibility is realized by way of education, specially higher education, because the universities are the main factors for progress, production of knowledge and education of specialized human forces and they play a significant role in...

developmental dysplasia of the hip (ddh) and flatfoot are common pediatric orthopedic disorders, being referred to and managed by both general and pediatric orthopedic surgeons, through various modalities. our study aimed to evaluate their consensus and perspective disagreements in terms of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches of the mentioned deformities. forty participants in two groups of g...

Anthropogenic impacts on Posidonia oceanica meadows have led to a decline of this ecosystem throughout the Mediterranean. Transplantations often been prescribed as compensation measure mitigate caused by coastal maritime works. Here Q methodology approach was used investigate stakeholders’ attitudes in four case studies P. transplants realized Italian waters. Twenty-two respondents were asked s...

This article argues that goal-setting is an important, albeit understudied, part of urban climate governance scholarship. By using theory, the introduces concepts and perspectives capable shedding new light on political aspect cities' strategic work. Climate studied within a wider context, as way to activate multitude internal external actors for shared goals purposes. The analyses levels ambig...