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Human role in the concept of «Computational Leviathan»
Семиотические исследованияComputational sociology is a subfield of social philosophy that views social relations in the context of comparing them to a computer. «Computational Leviathan» is a concept of computational sociology that draws an analogy between society and social ...
Igor I. Keosidi
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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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Statistical Proof and Theories of Discrimination [PDF]
, 1986 We live in a tightly knit world. Our emotions, desires, perceptions and decisions are interlinked in our interactions with others. We are constantly influencing our surroundings and being influenced by others.
Laycock, Douglas
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Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digital platform (DP) enterprises have risen to the top of the global economy by inverting traditional business models. They earn money through matchmaking, transaction facilitation, and efficient orchestration of other stakeholders' resources.
Lukas R. G. Fitz, Jochen Scheeg
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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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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Conservation performance payments are becoming an increasingly popular instrument to tackle human–wildlife conflicts. In Sweden, Sámi communities practicing reindeer husbandry receive performance payments as compensation for reindeer losses caused by lynxes and wolverines.
Josef Kaiser +3 more
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Computational humor and Christie Davies’ basis for joke comparison
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017 While historically computational humor paid very little attention to sociology and mostly took into account subparts of linguistics and some psychology, Christie Davies wrote a number of papers that should affect the study of computational humor directly.
Julia Rayz
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Physicists, stamp collectors, human mobility forecasters [PDF]
, 2010 One of the two reviewers studied in high school to be a physicist. In the end, he became something else, but he never lost his awe of physics. The other reviewer never intended to become a physicist, but he sometimes asks himself why he didn’t become one.
Szakadát, István, Szántó, Zoltán
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The Industrial Revolution triggered rural abandonment in Europe and had a profound impact on land configuration and ecosystem dynamics, mainly the growth of forests at the expense of open agricultural habitats. However, rural abandonment has been asynchronous in space and time, depending on regional socio‐economic dynamics.
Joan Bauzà, Miquel Grimalt, Daniel Oro
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Cultivating biodiversity: When conservation in agricultural landscapes embodies farmers' values
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Efforts to conserve biodiversity in agricultural landscapes across Europe remain insufficient, as biodiversity further declines. This is sometimes ascribed to conservation policy failing to address the meanings and values that farmers attribute to the social and ecological contexts shaping their decisions influencing biodiversity.
Maria L. Kernecker +4 more
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