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Showing 1 to 20 of 185 for “"Social scientists"”.
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Organizational behavior, social scientists, and Soviet foreign policymaking
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1991.
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Humanizing autonomy : social scientists' and engineers' futures for robotic cars
… robots in factories -- must operate in existing social spaces, which are complex and hard to control. Unlike household robots, these systems are also fast and dangerous. The fundamental problem of getting robots to interact in the world will be getting them to do the "right thing" -- according to …
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Meditations in an emergency : social scientists and the problem of conflict in Cold War America
… of the forms dissent could take within academic social science in the United States from roughly 1945-1970. The concept in question is "conflict." There are many stories one could tell about this concept and its transformations in postwar American social science, but in this dissertation I focus …
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Beyond “Data Thrifting”: An Investigation of Factors Influencing Research Data Reuse In the Social Sciences
… merely considered a “thrifting” activity where scientists shop around in data repositories considering only the ease of access to data.</p> <p>This research was driven by three main questions: 1) What are the factors that influence scientists’ research data reuse? 2) To what degree do these …
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Computing the Social: How Capitalism and Taste Shape Computational Social Science
… orders are significant drivers of computational social scientists’ theorizations. These aesthetic attachments shape how social phenomena are conceptualized by computational social scientists. This has implications for how scholarship has linked algorithmic injustices to cultures of computing: …
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Project Camelot and Military Sponsorship of Social Science Research: A Critical Discourse Analysis
"Project Camelot" was an ambitious social science research project conceived and funded by the Army, one whose scope and level of funding was unprecedented as of its inception in 1964. It was created in order to examine the potential for "internal war" and insurgency in the "developing countries" …
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Opening Participation through Participatory Technology Assessment: The Case of Nanotechnologies for Tomorrow's Society
… focuses explicitly on the initiating role that social scientists played in the project and how they performed participation. The dissertation proposes a critical reappraisal of the way in which participation in pTA is planned and implemented, which is explicitly political in character.
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Evangelical and Aboriginal Christianity on Baffin Island: A Case Study of Pond Inlet (Mittimatalik), 1929-1934
… reflects the growing awareness among social scientists of the ―simultaneity and interwoven complexity of the social, the historical, and the spatial, their inseparability and interdependence.
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A comparison of leisure theorists
<p>Social scientists express growing concern about man's capacity to achieve a state of existence greater than that of mere survival. "Popularizers" and writers of "social criticism" echo this concern. Obviously, because of scientific and technological changes, man's participation is needed less …
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An Object-Oriented Parallel Social Simulation Framework
Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) is a powerful social simulation technique that employs a bottom-up approach for opinion dynamics study. In this work, we develop a social simulation framework based on ABM. The framework supporting multiple features of interest to social scientists and experimenters. The …
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Social Media and Relationship Development
<p>The present study examined the use of social media to represent romantic relationships among a diverse, national sample (N=831) of Facebook users aged 20-37. Taken together, results from this study indicate that relationship representation via Facebook is associated with various aspects of …
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Maladjustment Among Victims of Bullying
… has garnered attention from educators, social scientists, and the public at large for nearly 50 years, but the dilemma persists. We have seen that bullying is a high-risk factor for psychological adjustment across the lifespan. The current study has surveyed college students to ascertain …
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Branch library location in the southern suburbs of Cape Town: a study of the influence of certain distance on the operation and location of five branch libraries in the southern suburbs of Cape Town
… Library, as an institution, public services. a social significance comparable with most other Strongly linked on the one hand with vital educational institutions but providing also for the recreational needs of increasing millions of people on the other public library services are now claiming …
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Contested connections: Networks and genre in twentieth-century British and Irish literature
… types of writing. My methodology derives from social scientists’ formulations of networks and from genre theories, particularly Paul Kincaid’s family resemblances approach to categorizing literature. Each chapter reevaluates both the broad parameters of various genres and specific …
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Structural Model Discovery in Temporal Event Data Streams
… of interest. This is a challenging problem for social scientists who are trying to identify high-level, conceptual patterns of human behavior from observational data (e.g., media streams). The presented research addresses how social scientists may derive patterns of human behavior captured in …
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'n Ondersoek na persoonlike indekseerstelsels, insluitende gerekenariseerde stelsels, met spesiale verwysing na die indekseringsbehoeftes van individuele akademici in Wes-Kaapland
… with an average of 2 492,76. According to Soper scientists tend to keep their documents at the workplace while humanists tend to keep their documents at home. Social scientists fall between these groups and keep some of their documents at the workplace and some at home. For scientists and social …
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Deconstructing the Teenage Pregnancy "Epidemic:" An Informed Approach to Caring for Marginalized Adolescents While Respecting Reproductive Autonomy
… and histories of reproductive coercion. Today, social scientists, health care providers, and public health professionals develop and celebrate programs that reduce rates of teen pregnancy, particularly programs that provide Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARCs) to teens in marginalized …
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Humanizing Computational Literature Analysis Through Art-Based Visualizations
… are issues that have long been discussed by social scientists. This work addresses these inequalities with two interrelated components. First, it contributes a sentiment and word frequency analysis task focused on gender-specific nouns and pronouns in 15,000 fictional works taken from the …
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Understanding affluent male NEETs (not in employment, education or training) by choice: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Social scientists have sought to understand young people who are NEET (16-24 year olds not in employment, education and training) in order to tackle social exclusion. Psychological research has been hampered by conceptual difficulties owing to the diversity of entry paths into NEET Following from …
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Anti-Americanism: an exploration of a contested concept in Western Europe
… is understudied and misunderstood by social scientists. Even within academia, studies of anti-Americanism are often polemic, and logically or methodologically flawed. Focusing on Western Europe, we argue that anti-Americanism is a public opinion phenomenon, and present a definition of …
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