Associations between job demands, job resources and patient-related burnout among physicians: results from a multicentre observational study by Joost van den Berg, Renée Scheepers, Milou Silkens, Kiki Lombarts

“…Those with positive patient relationships were less likely to experience patient-related burnout, even in the presence of excessive bureaucracy. Therefore, positive physician–patient relationships may be supported to reduce the likelihood of physicians’ patient-related burnout. …”
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Finding the Guardians of Royal Blood: Observations on the Supply of eunuchs to the Harem in the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate through case studies and documents by Ürkündağ A., Başer A.

“…It’s also been revealed that sometimes the information in the primary sources contradicts with the documents produced by the bureaucracy of the period. It’s been determined that a special emphasis was placed on the shaping of the eunuchs with the Ottoman high culture, and those who somehow lost their manhood, even if they were Muslims, lost their individual identity and were transformed into an officer belonging to the state.…”
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How to implement pairing assistance during fighting COVID-19 in China: collaborative governance between local governments under the authoritative regulation by Changwei Wei, Jiaxi Xu, Zhixiang Wang, Huangyue Wu, Juan Wang

“…The process is driven by three key factors: the vertical intervention of the crisis, the inevitability of horizontal cooperation and the policy allocation and incentives of the bureaucracy. The three stages of co-operative governance based on authoritative regulation work together in a step-by-step manner to enhance the effectiveness of crisis response.ConclusionThe results of the study indicate that collaborative governance under the authoritative regulation is the main reason why provincial counterpart support mechanism plays a great role in COVID-19. …”
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Chief Isaac Oluwole Delano: The Man, His Time, and His Significance by Toyin Falola

“…Worthy of note is the fact that he never blended into the civil service bureaucracy, as his principles and religious faith were constantly tested by various practices within the service. …”
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Strategic Analysis of the Financing System of Iran Health Insurance Organization by Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad, Mahdiyeh Heydari, Mahya Abbasi, Mahdi Abbasi

“…Finally, solutions such as modernizing the tax system, increasing the health literacy of the community, reducing bureaucracy, increasing transparency and accountability, and reforming the monitoring and evaluation system were identified to strengthen the performance of the financing system of IHIO. …”
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A review of approaches to the integration of humanitarian and development aid: the case of drought management in the Horn of Africa by Tahira Shariff Mohamed, Todd Andrew Crane, Samuel Derbyshire, Guyo Roba

“…We suggest that this is due in part to the well documented complexity of the aid system, and the forms of bureaucracy and upward accountability that make change extremely difficult, and in part to a lack of meaningful community participation in planning and practice.…”
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Information manipulation on TikTok and its relation to American users' beliefs about China by Danit Finkelstein, Sonia Yanovsky, Jacob Zucker, Anisha Jagdeep, Collin Vasko, Ankita Jagdeep, Lee Jussim, Joel Finkelstein

“…These results are discussed in context of a growing body of literature identifying a massive CCP propaganda bureaucracy devoted to controlling the flow of information in ways that threaten free speech and free inquiry.…”
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Budgeting Practices and Performance of Town Councils in Uganda: A Case Study of Muhanga Town Council. by Kembabazi, Primah

“…The study findings on the effect of activity-based budgeting on the performance of Muhanga town council were; Through activity-based budgeting valuable activities are identified, Resource needs are easily identified using activity-based budgeting and activity-based budgeting reduces bureaucracy and time needed in traditional budgeting. …”
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Factors creating favorable conditions for activating innovative entrepreneurship and startups in post-war Ukraine by Oksana Khymych, Enno Masurel

“…Among the eight constraining aggregate themes, 32.55% identified the policy and regulatory system as the main obstacle due to the absence of an effective strategy, ineffective legislation, passive municipalities, and bureaucracy. Moreover, the lack of funds is a critical issue in addressing the consequences of the war, financing startup projects, and creating favorable conditions. …”
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Trials and tribulations: a qualitative exploration of researcher perspectives on navigating the challenges of health system implementation research by Natalie Taylor, April Morrow, Julia Steinberg, Emily Hogden, Deborah Debono, Elijah Tyedmers, Priscilla Chan, Gabriella Tiernan

“…Barriers and facilitators identified within themes were deductively coded to domains of the updated Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research.Setting Participants were recruited from a research organisation based in Sydney, Australia.Participants A total of seven researcher and administering institution participants took part in four focus groups.Results Analysis highlighted the following themes: navigating bureaucracy, distinguishing implementation trials from clinical trials, the impact of COVID-19, balancing rigour and pragmatism in implementation trials, data access and complexity of analysis, and key learnings and future directions (subthemes: building relationships with ethics committees, communicating implementation concepts, streamlining of the implementation and research approach).Conclusions Findings highlight the need for streamlining current administrative and ethical review processes, as well as procedures that allow greater flexibility for researchers to respond to challenges as they arise. …”
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An outline of typology of social relations in the countries of Byzantine civilization in the VII-XIV Centuries by Nerijus Babinskas

“…The most advanced country of Southeastern Europe before the Ottoman conquering was Serbia: both Western and Byzantine cross-currents are visible in the mixed character of its political system, intermediate between the fief system and autocratic bureaucracy. According to P. Gunst, the lack of West European feudal property in land caused the absence of real feudal features in the area of Byzantine civilization. …”
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Expertise économique et reconfigurations disciplinaires dans la décolonisation by Thomas Irace

“…This article offers one form of explanation through a discussion of archival practices: while standard sources for the history of development economics include the papers of individual researchers and the records of international organisations, I argue that more intensive use of archives coming from (post-)colonial European national bureaucracies would lead to a better understanding of the meaning of expertise in times of decolonisation, as well as of the emergence of development economics as a specific form of knowledge in these countries. …”
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Reevaluating Conventional Strategies: Harnessing Traditional Structures to Counter Violent Extremism in Pakistan by Sardar Jehanzaib Ghalib

“… Civil-military relations constitute a complex area of international relations through the interaction of military institutions, civil society, and other governmental bureaucracies. Civil-military relations investigate the dynamics of engagement between the military and the general public, as well as the obligation of society to scrutinize the foreign and military strategies of the government. …”
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STRATEGY AND CHALLENGES OF`ECOWAS PROTOCOL ON TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA by MRS. RUTH CALEB LUKA, MODIBO ABDULLAHI, JACHO DAVID SUNDAY, PRINCE OJOCHEGBE AKWU

“…The non-tariff barriers include lack of interest in products with ECOWAS origin, Interim EPAs, long administrative custom procedures requiring long list of documents, congestion at the ports as a result of inefficient bureaucracies, which usually leads to long delays, extortion, and corruption among others. …”
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Integração ou separação? Uma reflexão sobre a governança territorial no Prata a partir da construção da ponte da integração São Borja-Brasil/ Santo Tomé-Argentina by Muriel Pinto, Ronaldo Bernardino Colvero, Alex Sander Barcellos Retamoso

“…Until then the transfer was via ferry and with less bureaucracies for the migration to the other side of the river. …”
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