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Social Work in Social Farming in the Concept of Empowerment

open access: yesEuropean Countryside, 2022
This article aims to present social farming from the perspective of social work; it, therefore, explores the added value of agriculture. More specifically, it adapts the concept of empowerment to the conditions of working with participants with ...
Hudcová Eliška
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Interval-valued contractive fuzzy negations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this work we consider the concept of contractive interval-valued fuzzy negation, as a negation such that it does not increase the length or amplitude of an interval. We relate this to the concept of Lipschitz function. In particular, we prove that the
Bedregal, Benjamin   +4 more
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Using Group Concept Mapping to Develop a Conceptual Model of Housing and Community-Based Residential Settings for Adults With Severe Mental Illness

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
BackgroundMost existing conceptual models of residential environments and housing programs were developed over a decade ago or lack comprehensiveness.
Amélie Felx   +6 more
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WORK: DIMENSIONS, MEANINGS AND EXTENSION OF THE CONCEPT

open access: yesRevista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação, 2017
This article aims at the realization of theoretical reflections about the meaning and function of work in society. A visit to the classics, especially Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx, allows us to problematize the connotations of work, passing through a ...
Viviane Nascimento Silva   +2 more
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The Concept of ‘Work’ in CSCW [PDF]

open access: yesComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2011
The scope of CSCW, its focus on work, has been a topic of sporadic debate for many years — indeed, from the very beginning in the late 1980s. But in recent years the issue has become one of general concern. Most of this debate has been taking place in closed fora such as program committees, editorial boards, and email discussion groups, but over the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

What is an affordance and can it help us understand the use of ICT in education? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper revisits the concept of affordance and explores its contribution to an understanding of the use of ICT for teaching and learning. It looks at Gibson‟s original idea of affordance and at some of the difficulties long associated with the use of ...
Hammond, Michael
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A New Distribution-Free Concept for Representing, Comparing, and Propagating Uncertainty in Dynamical Systems with Kernel Probabilistic Programming

open access: yes, 2020
This work presents the concept of kernel mean embedding and kernel probabilistic programming in the context of stochastic systems. We propose formulations to represent, compare, and propagate uncertainties for fairly general stochastic dynamics in a ...
Diehl, Moritz   +3 more
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Description of the biofouling phenomena affecting membranes by the boundary flux concept [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Membrane fouling, showing up with a significant reduction of process productivity and membrane lifetime, is one of the main issues in membrane technologies and has been successfully described by the boundary flux concept. Although the concept was applied
Baiocco, Daniele   +3 more
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The user’s perspective

open access: yesJournal of Comparative Social Work
This article deals with issues of work inclusion, with a particular focus on the user’s perspective on work, and the work inclusion policy in Norway. An expanded concept of work is applied, which includes all human activities that contribute social value
Aud Kirsten A. Innjord
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Emerging work practices of ICT-enabled mobile professionals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Currently, mobility is a significantly pervasive term; the concept is being widely used in multiple discussions including social, economic, political, and technological debates.
Kakihara, Masao
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