Results 51 to 60 of about 1,068,937 (156)
Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2018 This article consists of four conversations which form a sort of map of the questions and problems which have marked the evolution of Cultural Studies, starting with an approach, close to structuralism, which holds that language is the key factor in ...
Juan Ricardo Aparicio
doaj +1 more source
Impact of empire expansion on household diet: the Inka in Northern Chile's Atacama Desert. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 The impact of expanding civilization on the health of American indigenous societies has long been studied. Most studies have focused on infections and malnutrition that occurred when less complex societies were incorporated into more complex ...
Sheila Dorsey Vinton +4 more
doaj +1 more source
An investigation into the effect of ageing on expert memory with CHREST [PDF]
, 2007 CHREST is a cognitive architecture that models human perception, learning, memory, and problem solving, and which has successfully simulated numerous human experimental data on chess. In this paper, we describe an investigation into the effects of ageing
Gobet, F, Lane, PCR, Smith, RL
core
Information Entropy-Based Metrics for Measuring Emergences in Artificial Societies
Entropy, 2014 Emergence is a common phenomenon, and it is also a general and important concept in complex dynamic systems like artificial societies. Usually, artificial societies are used for assisting in resolving several complex social issues (e.g., emergency ...
Mingsheng Tang, Xinjun Mao
doaj +1 more source
Improving Laws and Legal Authorities for Obesity Prevention and Control [PDF]
, 2009 This is the second paper in a two part series on the laws and legal authorities for obesity prevention and control. In this paper, the authors present the applicable laws and legal authorities that public health professionals and lawyers can consider ...
Gostin, Lawrence O. +1 more
core +3 more sources
Lost in Non-Translation: Politics of Misrepresenting Arabs
Arab Studies Quarterly, 2014 Undergraduate college students in the USA often encounter the Arab Middle East through novels translated into English. These novels are often presented by instructors and understood by students as stylized but accurate depictions of Arab societies as ...
Sally Gomaa, Chad Raymond
doaj +1 more source
Heterarchy as Complexity: Archaeology in Yoro, Honduras
, 2009 Based on archaeological evidence from the Cuyumapa Valley in Honduras, including the presence of multiple ballcourts, this paper argues that archaeologists need to pay more attention to Carole Crumley\u27s concept of heterarchy when considering social ...
Hendon, Julia A. +2 more
core
Linguistic correlates of societal variation: A quantitative analysis.
PLoS ONETraditionally, many researchers have supported a uniformitarian view whereby all languages are of roughly equal complexity, facilitated by internal trade-offs between complexity at different levels, such as morphology and syntax.
Sihan Chen +7 more
doaj +1 more source
Learned society attitudes towards open access [PDF]
Learned societies are “a critical part of the research environment ”, and many rely largely on subscription income from their journals publishing programme to support the other services they offer to their members in the promotion of their academic dis c
core
Advancing subsidy reforms: towards a viable policy package [PDF]
, 1999 Executive Summary: World subsidies may total some $800 billion, of which perhaps two-thirds occur in the developed economies of the OECD. Reforming subsidy regimes that damage the prospects for sustainable development is immensely complex. Simply calling
Finck von Finckenstein, D., Pearce, D.W.
core