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The Plight Of The Kimberley: Jobs Or Culture?, Stuart Murray
The Plight Of The Kimberley: Jobs Or Culture?, Stuart Murray
Stuart Murray
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Probabilistic Logic For Belief Nets, K. Andersen, John Hooker
Probabilistic Logic For Belief Nets, K. Andersen, John Hooker
John Hooker
We describe how to combine probabilistic logic and Bayesian networks to obtain a new frame-work ("Bayesian logic") for dealing with uncertainty and causal relationships in an expert system. Probabilistic logic, invented by Boole, is a technique for drawing inferences from uncertain propositions for which there are no independence assumptions. A Bayesian network is a "belief net" that can represent complex conditional independence assumptions. We show how to solve inference problems in Bayesian logic by applying Benders decomposition to a nonlinear programming formulation. We also show that the number of constraints grows only linearly with the problem size for a large …
Putting The Np In Ppp: The Role Of Nonprofit Organizations In Public Private Partnerships, Stuart Mendel, Jeffrey Brudney
Putting The Np In Ppp: The Role Of Nonprofit Organizations In Public Private Partnerships, Stuart Mendel, Jeffrey Brudney
Jeff L. Brudney
Since the 1980s, public policymakers and contracting agents in the United States have promoted the concept of public-private partnerships (PPPs). These are typically seen as partnerships between the public and business sectors, but research finds that nonprofit intermediary institutions, either created for the purpose or already in existence, are often what makes it possible for PPPs to function and realize their potential. Nonprofits of this kind provide a "third space" in which PPPs can be formed, implemented, and sustained; they may also serve as value guardians of the PPP process. This article describes the essential but little credited role of …
Multilateral Development Banks And The International Monetary Fund, Paul Clements
Multilateral Development Banks And The International Monetary Fund, Paul Clements
Paul Clements
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