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Social prediction: a new research paradigm based on machine learning
The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2021 Sociology is a science concerned with both the interpretive understanding of social action and the corresponding causal explanation, process, and result. A causal explanation should be the foundation of prediction.
Yunsong Chen +4 more
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Land, 2021 The relationship between urban green spaces (UGS) and residential development is complex: UGS have positive and negative immediate impacts on residents’ well-being, residential location choice, housing, and land markets.
Nina Schwarz +9 more
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Automatic Pectoral Muscle Removal and Microcalcification Localization in Digital Mammograms [PDF]
Healthcare Informatics Research, 2021 Objectives Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women, and microcalcification (MCC) clusters act as an early indicator. Thus, the detection of MCCs plays an important role in diagnosing breast cancer.
Kevin Alejandro Hernández Gómez +2 more
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Reason-based explanations and analytical sociology. A rejoinder to Boudon
Papers, 2014 The paper discusses Raymond Boudon’s theory of ordinary rationality as well as his assessment of the so-called “analytical sociology”. On the first point, the paper argues that, in order to combine the realism of an unconstrained conception of ...
Gianluca Manzo
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“An ethnographic seduction”: how qualitative research and Agent-based models can benefit each other [PDF]
, 2010 We provide a general analytical framework for empirically informed agent-based simulations. This methodology provides present-day agent-based models with a sound and proper insight as to the behavior of social agents — an insight that statistical data ...
Agar MH +21 more
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Landscape in the Economy of Conspicuous Consumptions \ud [PDF]
, 2010 Psychological states side by side with the bounded rational expectations among social agents contributes to the pattern of consumptions in economic system.
Situngkir, Hokky
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Nature Communications, 2018 A population bottleneck 5000-7000 years ago in human males, but not females, has been inferred across several African, European and Asian populations. Here, Zeng and colleagues synthesize theory and data to suggest that competition among patrilineal kin ...
Tian Chen Zeng +2 more
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Social inequalities in climate change-attributed impacts of Hurricane Harvey
Nature Communications, 2022 New study shows that up to 50% of properties flooded after hurricane Harvey flooded because of climate change, with low-income and Latina/x/o neighborhoods experiencing higher climate change-attributed impacts.
Kevin T. Smiley +5 more
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Brokering or Sitting Between Two Chairs? A Group Perspective on Workplace Gossip
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Brokerage is a central concept in the organization literature. It has been argued that individuals in broker positions—i.e., connecting otherwise disconnected parts within a firm’s social network—can control the flow of information.
José Luis Estévez +3 more
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AirKit: A Citizen-Sensing Toolkit for Monitoring Air Quality
Sensors, 2021 Increasing urbanisation and a better understanding of the negative health effects of air pollution have accelerated the use of Internet of Things (IoT)-based air quality sensors.
Sachit Mahajan +2 more
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