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EMERGING THE EMERGENCE SOCIOLOGY: The Philosophical Framework of Agent-Based Social Studies [PDF]
, 2003 The structuration theory originally provided by Anthony Giddens and the advance improvement of the theory has been trying to solve the dilemma came up in the epistemological aspects of the social sciences and humanity.
Situngkir, Hokky
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Regional Shopping Objectives in British Grocery Retail Transactions Using Segmented Topic Models
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding the customer behaviours behind transactional data has high commercial value in the grocery retail industry. Customers generate millions of transactions every day, choosing and buying products to satisfy specific shopping needs.
Mariflor Vega Carrasco +4 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research evidence is mixed on the consequences of ability grouping policies, but most research has found an overrepresentation of disadvantaged social demographics in low‐ability groups. However, researchers have neglected to explain why ability grouping policies vary between countries.
Monica Reichenberg +2 more
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Fast Shortest Path Distance Estimation in Large Networks [PDF]
, 2009 We study the problem of preprocessing a large graph so that point-to-point shortest-path queries can be answered very fast. Computing shortest paths is a well studied problem, but exact algorithms do not scale to huge graphs encountered on the web ...
Castillo, Carlos +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study offers a comprehensive bibliometric and text‐mining overview of two decades of sustainability‐oriented entrepreneurship research. Drawing on 7563 peer‐reviewed articles from the Web of Science Core Collection, we map the field's evolution, thematic structure, and disciplinary convergence, identifying influential authors, networks ...
Giusy Sica +3 more
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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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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
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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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Local Convergence and Global Diversity: The Robustness of Cultural Homophily [PDF]
, 2007 Recent extensions of the Axelrod model of cultural dissemination (Klemm et al 2003) showed that global diversity is extremely fragile with small amounts of cultural mutation.
Flache, Andreas, Macy, Michael W.
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Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Vision problems reduce individuals' quality of life, and they also reduce their productivity as workers and consequently decrease their incomes. Most vision problems can be corrected with properly fitted eyeglasses, but many people with vision problems do not have such eyeglasses.
Paul Glewwe +3 more
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