Francis Ltd's research while affiliated with University of California, Davis and other places

... In addition, Ireland preferred a rotating Council Presidency over the permanent model, as the former institutionally guarantees that small states can also hold his office (EurActiv, 2004). In order to promote their priorities, Ireland applied bargaining strategies and engaged in informal talks and confidential meetings with EU representatives (Dür & Mateo, 2006). After a long period of discussions, the Irish presidency succeeded in securing an agreement on a treaty establishing a constitution for Europe in 2004, including a consensus on the size and composition of the Commission, the voting system in the Council, and the scope of qualified majority voting (European Union, 2004). ...

... Second, specific beliefs about the policy and emotions, trust, and perceptions of legitimacy can be influenced by various contextual factors, such as urban form (Hysing and Isaksson 2015), congestion severity (Albalate and Bel 2009;Attard and Ison 2010), the functioning of the public transport system, air pollution levels (Wang et al., 2021), or car dependency (Gaunt et al. 2007;Kottenhoff and Freij, 2009). As Hysing and Isaksson (2015) conclude in their study on congestion charges in Stockholm and Gothenburg, in addition to local political conditions and procedural factors, local contextual conditions, in particular urban form, congestion levels, and the functioning of public transport, determined the different levels of acceptance of congestion charges in the two cities. ...

... 2008, Gadziński 2018. Jak wskazuje Rose (2006), chociaż telefony komórkowe wydają się oferować atrakcyjne perspektywy jako sondy do pomiarów ruchu, nadal istnieje wiele problemów, które trzeba rozwiązać. Należą do nich aspekty wpływające na dokładność i wiarygodność danych (w tym m.in. ...

... Thus, our results cover models with thresholds and kinks in , g, and h, which existing results cannot handle. In the case of discrete choice models, such features may occur if the decision-maker optimises subject to constraints; see, e.g., Cantillo and de Dios Ortúzar (2006). These models have traditionally been formulated in a parametric fashion; our theory demonstrates how they can be identified without parametric constraints. ...

... The elite class students were interested to read complex books. Burgess (2005) added that low-income mothers had fewer reading resources that resulted find their less privileged children in reading. Fenimore (2015) found a majority of non-Kuwaiti families were unable to buy a variety of materials to support their children's reading. ...

... Cities are responsible for two-thirds of the world's energy consumed and for up to 70% of greenhouse gas emissions (Bin et al., 2020). Problems of urban mobility are emerging while motorised vehicles remain the main means of urban transport across developing countries, and the number of registered vehicles is increasing every year (Israel Schwarzlose et al., 2014;Pucher et al., 2007). ...

... Increasingly, specific aspects of governance have been the subject of scientific articles. Thus, for example, contracting (Hansson, 2013), ownership (Mees, 2005), collaboration are topics typically found in the literature on public transport governance. Though contracts, ownership and collaboration do of course co-exist, the topics are more usually studied in isolation, while a comprehensive perspective on public transport governance is much more seldom found (although there are some notable exceptions such as Sørensen 2018; Sørensen and Longva, 2011;Hansson, 2021). ...

... People generally aim to choose a residential environment that matches their preferences (Bijker et al., 2012), a process that is often termed residential self-selection (Van Wee, 2009). Residential self-selection based on desired and expected travel behaviour has already been widely identified as a potentially important intermediary factor in the relationship between the physical environment and travel patterns (Bohte et al., 2009;Cao et al., 2009). Extending the notion of residential self-selection based on travel behaviour preferences to accessibility suggests that lower levels of spatial accessibility may not always translate into lower perceived accessibility. ...

... Delgado (1989) argues that disadvantaged individuals need to have their voices heard. In this regard, counter-storytelling is an important and essential tool in CRT because of its emphasis on the unspoken voice which often contradicts the same stories told by white people or other majority group members (Hylton, 2005). ...

... Although some elements of the treatment procedures were not consistently applied by the educators or typical peers, the intervention was sufficiently robust to enable the children with ASD to improve their turn-taking skills. Key words: autism, childcare, coaching, peer mediation, single-case research, touch screen technology I NCLUSION IN TYPICAL early childhood settings is considered to be the right of every child, including those with significant disabilities, and has also been identified as having benefits for both children with disabilities and their typically developing peers (Odom, Buysse, & Soukakou, 2011;Stahmer & Carter, 2005). Although no one would deny the right of children and families to access typical early childhood services such as preschools and childcare, most would acknowledge that successful inclusion should involve active intervention to promote engagement, social participation and child development (Odom et al., 2011). ...