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Information practices of disaster preparedness professionals in multidisciplinary groups [PDF]

, 2010
OBJECTIVE: This article summarizes the results of a descriptive qualitative study addressing the question, what are the information practices of the various professionals involved in disaster preparedness?
Briggle, Byström, Case, Clements-Nolle, Currie, Dervin, Drabek, Drabek, Fisher, Fourie, Grefsheim, Jalba, Lurie, Marincioni, McCreight, Miles, Patton, Perry, Potter, Quantarelli, Rebmann, Sandelowski, Sandelowski, Sauer, Savolainen, Scott, Taylor, Tierney, Trainor, Van Fleet-Green   +29 more
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Evaluation of an integrated system for classification, assessment and comparison of services for long-term care in Europe: the eDESDE-LTC study [PDF]

, 2013
The harmonization of European health systems brings with it a need for tools to allow the standardized collection of information about medical care. A common coding system and standards for the description of services are needed to allow local data to be
Alvarez-Galvez, Javier, Dimitrov, Hristo, Gutiérrez-Colosía, Mencia R, Johnson, Sonia, Kalseth, Birgitte, Lagares-Franco, Carolina, McDaid, David, Romero, Cristina, Romá-Ferri, Maria, Salinas-Perez, Jose A, Salvador-Carulla, Luis, Sprah, Lilijana, Tibaldi, Giuseppe, Weber, Germain   +13 more
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« Un plus un, ça ne fait pas toujours deux » : le codage médical en coulisse

Histoire, Médecine et Santé, 2022
While the field of big data in health is filled with codes of various types, social sciences have shown little interest in the more “traditional” codes that make up the International Classifications of Diseases. Yet these codes are the building blocks of
Émilie Bovet
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Adoption knowledge: a citizen-scientific use of FamilySearch to understand Peruvian adoption

Tapuya, 2022
This article analyzes the citizen-scientific work conducted by a Peruvian adoptee, co-author Milagros Caroline Forrester, who is collecting, archiving, coding, and analyzing the birth records of Peruvian adoptees she encounters through her ongoing review
Jessaca Leinaweaver, Milagros Caroline Forrester   +1 more
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Text as big data: Develop codes of practice for rigorous computational text analysis in energy social science

Energy Research & Social Science, 2020
Augmenting traditional social science methods with computational analysis is crucial if we are to exploit the vast digital archives of text data that have become available over the past two decades. In this journal, Benites-Lazaro et al. (2018) showcase this in an application of topic modeling and other computational methods to an actor-specific ...
Finn Müller-Hansen, Max Callaghan, Jan Minx   +2 more
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Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed: Social science perspectives on the harms of HIV criminalization in Canada

Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2023
The criminalization of HIV non-disclosure represents a significant issue of concern among people living with HIV, those working across the HIV sector, public health practitioners, and health and human rights advocates around the world. Recently, the government of Canada began a review of the criminal law regarding HIV non-disclosure and invited ...
Colin Hastings, Martin French, Alexander McClelland, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Barry Adam, Laura Bisaillon, Katarina Bogosavljevic, Marilou Gagnon, Saara Greene, Adrian Guta, Suzanne Hindmarch, Angela Kaida, Jennifer Kilty, Notisha Massaquoi, Viviane Namaste, Patrick O’Byrne, Michael Orsini, Sophie Patterson, Chris Sanders, Alison Symington, Ciann Wilson   +20 more
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Methodological challenges for collaborative learning research [PDF]

, 2007
Research on collaborative learning, both face-to-face and computer-supported, has thrived in the past 10 years. The studies range from outcome-oriented (individual and group learning) to process-oriented (impact of interaction on learning processes ...
Arnseth, Arvaja, Barron, Beers, De Wever, De Wever, Elliot, Frank Fischer, Hmelo-Silver, Hmelo-Silver, Jan-Willem Strijbos, Kumpulainen, Naidu, Roschelle, Schrire, Stahl, Stahl, Strijbos, Strijbos, Strijbos, Strijbos, Webb, Weinberger, Weinberger, Zemel   +24 more
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Gamification, social problems, and gender in the teaching of social sciences: Representations and discourse of trainee teachers.

PLoS ONE, 2019
This paper analyses the representations and discourse of 41 trainee teachers on the inclusion of gaming elements in education and their potential contribution to covering social problems in the curriculum, and to education on and for gender equality ...
Delfín Ortega Sánchez, Isabel María Gómez Trigueros   +1 more
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Why people attend science festivals : interests, motivations and self-reported benefits of public engagement with research [PDF]

, 2014
As a form of public engagement, science festivals have rapidly expanded in size and number over recent years. However, as with other domains of informal public engagement that are not linked to policy outcomes, existing research does not fully address ...
Buckley N, Bultitude K, Dawson E, Derrett R, EUSCEA, Furuta M, Goffman E, Holliman R, Holliman R, House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, Irwin A, Irwin A, Jensen E, Jensen E, Jensen E, Jensen E, Kitzinger J, Kitzinger J, National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement, Research Councils UK, Research Councils UK, Stilgoe J, Strauss A, Wagoner B, Wagoner B   +24 more
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Medical Anthropology Courses and Concepts Tested on the MCAT: A Content Analysis of 40 U.S. Course Syllabi

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development, 2021
The Association of American Medical Colleges recommends students seeking to enter medical school complete courses in the social sciences. Despite calls to teach social science—including anthropology—in pre-medical curriculum, little is known about what ...
Tyler J Stodola, Sean P Bruna
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