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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"social concepts"”.
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Studies of embodied cognition and metaphor
… affect how we understand and process abstract social concepts via the use of metaphors. According to this embodied perspective, bodily states or actions can cue metaphorically related social concepts and, in turn, influence our judgments in ways consistent with such physically experienced …
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Vigilis: Leveraging Language Models for Fraud Detection in Mobile Communications and Financial Transactions
… systems, attackers increasingly rely on social engineering to achieve their goals. These attacks are difficult to detect and prevent with existing security measures. To address this, we propose Vigilis, a fraud-protected application that employs advanced language models to counter such …
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The materiality of the kitchen house: building, food and history on Mere Lava, northern Vanuatu
… that materialise people's links to the land and social relationships. Nowadays on Mere Lava, a striking emphasis is put on the building or re-building of kitchen houses, n-ean̄ kuk, as architectural elements central to households. Drawing upon recent theories of material efficacy that consider …
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an end to the 'other' in landscape architecture: poststructural theory and universal design
… within the landscape, attempts to address social issues such as segregation by proposing an integrated accessibility and design for a diverse society. However, while proposing integration, it can be criticized as designing to the lowest common denominator and clinging to the idea of a …
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La justicia y el absurdo en el cuento latinoamericano contemporáneo.
… this study uses two intimately related social concepts: justice-as-rectification (from the Aristotelian tradition), that coincides with the ethical act defined by the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975); and the absurd employed by French philosopher Albert Camus …
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Medicalization as a Trojan Horse: Changes in Erectile Enhancement Advertising
… Trojan horse, sneaking in and maintaining older concepts of domination and violence. The background of hegemonic masculinity in erectile enhancement advertising is continued under the guise of medical professionalism. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis of ten erectile enhancement …
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Multi-dimensional personhood and the welfare state
… the range and nature of the “contestable social concepts” that lie behind thinking on welfare, and as a way of engaging with but problematizing the idea of welfare regimes, popularised by Esping-Anderson. It concludes by outlining a constructive response to the welfare state, by drawing on …
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Cortical Representation of Learning Social Interactions In Freely Moving Non-Human Primates
<p>The motivation and capacity to be social is necessary for human survival. Successful learning of complex, prosocial behavior stems from the ability to perceive and respond to visual cues, such as the body language and facial expressions, from others in our environment. This dependence on visual …
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Social-semantic knowledge and behavioural changes in frontotemporal dementia
… Recent research in FTD has begun to focus on social-semantic knowledge, and its relationship to the known behavioural changes in this disorder. The aims of the thesis were to (i) determine how social-semantic knowledge is affected in FTD in relation to general conceptual knowledge, (ii) …
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A comparative study of Libyan public housing
… Libya, development haschanged the physical and social concepts of the country. The housing sectorin particular has expanded tremendously as a result of the oil economy.While the social life remains largely unaltered. People accept modernarchitecture, but also wish to preserve their indigenous …
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Teorias sociais implícitas nos índices e sistemas de indicadores: uma contribuição estatística ao estudo do desenvolvimento
… a ser empregado na mensuração do desenvolvimento social a partir de informações públicas. Por outro lado, a evolução do pensamento científico sobre o desenvolvimento converge cada vez mais para uma percepção transdisciplinar, complexa e intangível. Nessa perspectiva, os atuais métodos utilizados …