A5076479751- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Regional resilience and development
- Radioactive contamination and transfer
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
- Wind Energy Research and Development
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Nuclear and radioactivity studies
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Political and Social Issues
- Political Systems and Governance
- Risk Perception and Management
- Organizational Learning and Leadership
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Management Theory and Practice
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
Cornell University
2025
National Sanitation Foundation International
2023
Brigham Young University
2020-2022
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1994-2022
University of California, Santa Barbara
2022
American Water Works Association
2019
Dorset County Hospital
2014
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
1993-2011
Valproate is a first-line treatment for patients with newly diagnosed idiopathic generalised or difficult to classify epilepsy, but not women of child-bearing potential because teratogenicity. Levetiracetam increasingly prescribed these patient populations despite scarcity evidence clinical effectiveness cost-effectiveness. We aimed compare the long-term and cost-effectiveness levetiracetam compared valproate in participants unclassifiable epilepsy.We did an open-label, randomised controlled...
Levetiracetam and zonisamide are licensed as monotherapy for patients with focal epilepsy, but there is uncertainty to whether they should be recommended first-line treatments because of insufficient evidence clinical effectiveness cost-effectiveness. We aimed assess the long-term cost-effectiveness levetiracetam compared lamotrigine in people newly diagnosed epilepsy.This randomised, open-label, controlled trial treatment epilepsy. Adult paediatric neurology services across UK recruited...
In recent decades, local governments across America have increasingly turned specialized functions over to autonomous agencies ranging in scope from subdivision-sized water districts multi-state transit authorities. This book is the first comprehensive examination of causes and consequences special-purpose more than 300 metropolitan areas United States. It presents new evidence on economic, political, social implications relying these special while offering important findings about their use...
There has long been debate on the extent to which structure of government in metropolitan areas helps or hinders income growth. Polycentrists contend that numerous local governments lead competition streamlines government, produces services at least cost, and leads higher incomes. Centristts argue large, multiple service have scale economies leading more efficient production hence What matters regionalists is whether there a governance arrangement effects an improvement distribution economic...
While investigations examining the effects of direct and vicarious police stops on youth attitudes toward have been limited, even less research has explored how these processes vary by race/ethnicity. Thus, this study uses Fragile Families Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) to examine race/ethnicity shapes: (1) relationship between (2) contextual nature (intrusiveness) influence perceptions police. The results suggest that and/or contact can generate negative among black, Hispanic, in some cases,...
The article proposes a framework to clarify and specify regional governance, concept widely used but as yet inadequately formulated for research practice. Using capacity purpose rather than governance or governmental forms foundation, the identifies five dimensions—actor group, agenda, internal capacity, external implementation experience—that together describe time, place, policy goal.
Challenges of governance complicate regional planning in the United States. With a backdrop emergence new realms climate change, homeland security, and shrinking regions, this paper outlines nature US challenges its potential solutions. Numerous general specific institutions shape practice set it apart from elsewhere. Regardless organisational structure rules planning, planners must address three questions for each situation: by what authority, exercised whom, territory? In end, quality...
:Spurred by fiscal pressure, persistent city-suburban disparities, and the imperatives of global economy, public academic interest in metropolitan regionalism is as vigorous now it was 1950s. The resurgence compels analysis this article 10 regional impulses—natural resource, macroeconomic, centrality, growth, social, fiscal, equity, political, legal, historical—the operation which determine outcomes, such service delivery, partnerships, practices, areas. A case study impulses Buffalo area...
Relatively little is known about the remarkable increase in use of special districts for urban service delivery. The author assesses utility four alternative theoretical perspectives on uneven metropolitan areas. Empirical analysis district patterns more than 300 areas 1987 reveals multiple influences use. Local government structure and legal factors emphasized by institutional-reform metropolitan-ecology are especially important relative to service-demand asserted public-choice critical...
Terrain-induced flow acceleration is presented for the summertime, peak power season at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Site 300 Hill Flow Study (HilFlowS). HilFlowS, designed as an adjunct field campaign to Department of Energy’s Second Wind Forecasting Improvement Project (WFIP2), provides wind profile observations a second location in complex terrain validating numerical atmospheric model simulations and better understanding behavior over hills generation. One unique feature...