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The Contribution of Applied Social Sciences to Obesity Stigma-Related Public Health Approaches [PDF]

Journal of Obesity, 2014
Obesity is viewed as a major public health concern, and obesity stigma is pervasive. Such marginalization renders obese persons a “special population.” Weight bias arises in part due to popular sources’ attribution of obesity causation to individual ...
Andrea E. Bombak
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Participant or professor centered learning? A comparative study in Applied Social Sciences [PDF]

RAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, 2008
The quantitative approach in the Business courses has distressed students searching for humanistic contents in Applied Social Sciences area of knowledge. One can observe this in the Materials and Patrimonial Properties Management course taught during the
Waldemar Hazoff Júnior, Antonio Carlos Aidar Sauaia   +1 more
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Editorial: Applied computational social sciences

Frontiers in Big Data
Paolo Parigi, Kinga Makovi
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Imperceptible body transformation in virtual reality: Saliency of self representation

iScience, 2023
Summary: Change blindness (CB) is the perceptual phenomenon whereby people are blind to dramatic changes in their visual environment. In virtual reality (VR) a person’s body can be substituted by a life-sized virtual one that moves synchronously with ...
Gizem Senel, Francisco Macia-Varela, Jaime Gallego, Hatice Pehlivan Jensen, Kasper Hornbæk, Mel Slater   +5 more
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Predicting party switching through machine learning and open data

iScience, 2023
Summary: Parliament dynamics might seem erratic at times. Predicting future voting patterns could support policy design based on the simulation of voting scenarios.
Nicolò Meneghetti, Fabio Pacini, Francesca Biondi Dal Monte, Marina Cracchiolo, Emanuele Rossi, Alberto Mazzoni, Silvestro Micera   +6 more
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The Relevance of Applied Social Sciences to Phronesis [PDF]

حکمت معاصر, 2020
This article is to study the relation between applied humanities and phronesis. The methodology is conceptual analysis, so in the first place, by providing the definition of application and praxis, the concepts of applied humanities and social sciences ...
Seyed mohammadreza Amiri Tehrani
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Sustainable social development promotes COVID-19 pandemic control

iScience, 2022
Summary: The rapid spread of COVID-19 had a negative impact on public health and economic recovery worldwide. There is a large and growing literature on pandemic prevention and control.
Shilan Feng, Yingjia Zhai, Wendong Wei, Ya Tan, Yong Geng, Weiye Nie   +5 more
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What Is It Like to Make a Prototype? Practitioner Reflections on the Intersection of User Experience and Digital Humanities/Social Sciences during the Design and Delivery of the “Getting to Mount Resilience” Prototype

Informatics, 2023
The digital humanities and social sciences are critical for addressing societal challenges such as climate change and disaster risk reduction. One way in which the digital humanities and social sciences add value, particularly in an increasingly ...
Ashlin Lee
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Social diffusion sources can escape detection

iScience, 2022
Summary: Influencing others through social networks is fundamental to all human societies. Whether this happens through the diffusion of rumors, opinions, or viruses, identifying the diffusion source (i.e., the person that initiated it) is a problem that
Marcin Waniek, Petter Holme, Manuel Cebrian, Talal Rahwan   +3 more
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Taking on the “new normal”: emerging psychologists' reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences, 2023
Purpose – Coronavirus (COVID-19) rapidly became the “new normal” with profound implications for everyone's daily life. In this paper, emerging psychologists from diverse cultural backgrounds discuss four main ways in which COVID-19 impacted diverse ...
Sarah Gradidge, Wai Meng Yap, Andrian Liem, Giselle Dass   +3 more
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