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Social policy-making on the local level in Flanders : its future is certain but its nature far from
Directing without power, governing without strength?: cooperation between local government and the private sector
A typology for the relationship between local governments and NPO's in welfare state regimes: the Belgian case revisited
Mapping the role of nonprofits in the public domain, and the effects for public service delivery and policy design: a research strategy
The prevalence of private nonprofit suppliers in Flemish cities: the case of minority policy and poverty policy
The emergence of network structures in social service delivery: the case of the local social policy in
No current without heat
We show for a large class of interacting particle systems that whenever the
stationary measure is not reversible for the dynamics, then the mean entropy
production in the steady state is strictly positive. This extends to the
thermodynamic limit the equivalence between microscopic reversibility and zero
mean entropy production: time-reversal invariance cannot be spontaneously
broken.Comment: To appear in the Journal of Statistical Physics (2002
What's on your mind? Recent advances in memory detection using the concealed information test
Lie detectors can be applied in a wide variety of settings. But this advantage comes with a considerable cost: False positives. The applicability of the Concealed Information Test (CIT) is More limited, yet when it can be applied, the risk of false accusations can be set a priori at a very low level. The CIT assesses the recognition of; critical information that is known only by the examiners and the culprit, for example, the face a an accomplice. Large effects are Obtained with the CIT, whether combined with peripheral, brain, or Motor responses. We see three important challenges for the CIT. First, the false negative rate Of the CIT can be substantial, particularly under :realistic circumstantes. A possible solution Seems to restrict the CIT to highly Salient details. Second, there exist effective faking strategies. Future research will tell whether faking can be detected or even prevented (e.g., Using Overt measures). Third, recognition of critical crime detail's does not necessarily result from criminal activity. It is therefore important to properly embed the CIT in the investigative process, While taking care when drawing conclusions from the test outcome (recognition, not guilt)
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