Legitimacy as an Operational Factor: An Alternative Analysis

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen E. O'Rear
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Analysis ◽  
Operational Factor

scholarly journals Early Childhood Education and Adult Depression: An Attrition Reanalysis With Inverse Propensity Score Weighting

2020 ◽  
pp. 0193841X2097652
Author(s):  
Christina F. Mondi ◽  
Arthur J. Reynolds ◽  
Brandt A. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Point Estimate ◽  
Marginal Effect ◽  
Alternative Analysis ◽  
Point Reduction ◽  
Program Selection ◽  
Matched Comparison

In a previous study of the Child-Parent Centers (CPC) education program, preschool participation was linked to a 4.6 percentage point reduction (26%) in depressive symptoms at ages 22–24 over the matched comparison group enrolling the usual programs. The present study reanalyzed these data in the Chicago Longitudinal Study to address potential attrition bias since more than a quarter of the sample was missing on the outcome. Using inverse probability weighting (IPW) involving 32 predictors of sample retention, findings for the 1,142 participants growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods indicated that CPC participation was associated with a 7.1 percentage point reduction (95% CI = [−9.7, −5.4]) in one or more depressive symptoms (39% reduction over the comparison group). Although this marginal effect was within the confidence interval of the original study (95% CI = [−9.5, 0.3]), the 54% increase in the point estimate is substantial and of practical significance, suggesting underestimation in the prior study. Alternative analysis of different predictors and IPW models, including adjustments for program selection and attrition together, yielded similar results. Findings indicate that high-quality early childhood programs continue to be an important strategy for the prevention of depression and its debilitating effects on individuals and families.

scholarly journals Neoliberalism with Scandinavian characteristics: The slow formation of neoliberal common sense in Denmark

2021 ◽  
pp. 030981682110290
Author(s):  
Rune Møller Stahl
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Causal Power ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
Alternative Analysis ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Economic Council ◽  
Ideational Change ◽  
Economic Developments

This article describes the ascension of neoliberal economic ideas in the macroeconomic establishment in Denmark. Based on a systematic analysis of documents from the Danish government and the Economic Council from the 1970s to the early 2000s, the article traces the development of the economic ideas and policy instrument that dominate the analytical process of the Danish macroeconomic establishment. The article applies a Gramscian-inspired framework to track the gradual and uneven process under which neoliberal economic ideas became common sense in the Danish context. This framework challenges some of the assumptions of the ideational focus of much constructivist literature, and offers an alternative analysis focused on the legitimating role of economic ideas. As much of the ideational change took place after policy adaptions to international economic developments, the Danish case provides little support for the theory of the causal power of ideas. Rather, it seems as though economic models and ideas are imported as ‘after the fact’ legitimations of changes in policy.

Overlapping prison/community tuberculosis outbreaks in Costa Rica revealed by alternative analysis of suboptimal material

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Jbara ◽  
Marta Herranz ◽  
Pedro J. Sola‐Campoy ◽  
Cristina Rodríguez‐Grande ◽  
Álvaro Chiner‐Oms ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Alternative Analysis ◽  
Prison Community

Rail noise grade separation alternative analysis case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 263 (4) ◽  
pp. 2842-2850
Author(s):  
Paul Burge ◽  
Jim Cowan
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Alternative Analysis ◽  
Noise And Vibration ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Commuter Rail ◽  
Grade Crossing ◽  
Grade Separation ◽  
The City

The San Francisco Bay Area has an existing commuter rail system that brings commuters from southern regional communities into the downtown city center. One of the communities served by commuter rail service is the City of Palo Alto, CA, which includes four active grade crossings, each requiring train horn sounding for each train event. The City wished to evaluate various options to eliminate the noise generated from horn soundings by creating road/rail grade separations at each existing grade crossing and other possible noise and vibration control elements. The alternatives included crossing closures, rail bed trenching, viaducts, roadway underpasses, and tunnels. A noise and vibration study was undertaken to provide an analysis of which alternatives would provide better reductions in noise and vibration in the surrounding community. The study included an assessment of existing noise levels and predicted future noise and vibration levels for construction and operation of each proposed alternative using current established noise and vibration methodology. The results of this study included comparisons of the noise and vibration associated with each of the of the proposed alternatives that could be used in conjunction with other studies considering cost, traffic, safety, aesthetics and other factors to select an overall preferred alternative.

scholarly journals Alternative analysis of transient infiltration experiment to estimate soil water repellency

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Alagna ◽  
Massimo Iovino ◽  
Vincenzo Bagarello ◽  
Jorge Mataix‐Solera ◽  
Lubomir Lichner
Keyword(s):  
Soil Water ◽  
Water Repellency ◽  
Soil Water Repellency ◽  
Alternative Analysis ◽  
Infiltration Experiment

Double polarized neutron-proton scattering and nucleon-nucleon tensor force: An alternative analysis

2002 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Tornow ◽  
C. R. Gould ◽  
D. G. Haase ◽  
J. R. Walston ◽  
B. W. Raichle
Keyword(s):  
Tensor Force ◽  
Nucleon Nucleon ◽  
Proton Scattering ◽  
Alternative Analysis ◽  
Polarized Neutron
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