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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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Washback Effect of University Entrance exams in Applied Mathematics to Social Sciences.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Curricular issues of subject Applied Mathematics to Social Sciences are studied in relation to university entrance exams performed in several Spanish regions between 2009-2014. By using quantitative and qualitative analyses, it has been studied how these
Luis J Rodríguez-Muñiz, Patricia Díaz, Verónica Mier, Pedro Alonso   +3 more
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Advances in Data and Network Sciences Applied to Computational Social Science

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Data Science, a cornerstone of modern research, focuses on extracting knowledge and insights from vast and often unstructured datasets [...]
Leonardo N. Ferreira
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Editorial: Applied computational social sciences

Frontiers in Big Data
Paolo Parigi, Kinga Makovi
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Commentary 2 to the manifesto for the marine social sciences: applied social science [PDF]

Maritime Studies, 2020
Marloes Kraan, Sebastian Linke, Linke Sebastian   +2 more
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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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