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Social Control and Social Criticism: the nineteenth-century còmhradh [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The paper discusses the emergence of the còmhradh (dialogue)as the preferred prose genre for the discussion of social issues in the course of the century. It focuses on the way in which the còmhradh was used, first by the Rev.
Kidd, S.M.
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Controlled Information Fusion with Risk-Averse CVaR Social Sensors

open access: yes, 2017
Consider a multi-agent network comprised of risk averse social sensors and a controller that jointly seek to estimate an unknown state of nature, given noisy measurements. The network of social sensors perform Bayesian social learning - each sensor fuses
Bhatt, Sujay, Krishnamurthy, Vikram
core   +1 more source

Implementing Health‐Related Quality of Life Assessment in Pediatric Oncology: A Feasibility Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background There is growing interest in embedding health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) assessment and patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) within clinical cancer care. This study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of implementing an electronic PROM (ePROM) platform to measure HRQoL in children with cancer ...
Mikaela Doig   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Welfare state crisis: strategies of hegemony from the media discourse

open access: yesChasqui, 2018
This article explores the media narratives of economic adjustment policies on the welfare state in the Spanish context. The objective is to detect the discursive strategies present in the informative story with which the public managers inform about ...
María Concepción Mateos Martín   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A motion system for social and animated robots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper presents an innovative motion system that is used to control the motions and animations of a social robot. The social robot Probo is used to study Human-Robot Interactions (HRI), with a special focus on Robot Assisted Therapy (RAT).
goris, Kristof   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Treatment Decision‐Making Roles and Preferences Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Decision‐making (DM) dynamics between adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer, parents, and oncologists remain underexplored in diverse populations. We examined cancer treatment DM preferences among an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of AYAs and their parents.
Amanda M. Gutierrez   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parent Quality of Life at Two Years Following Their Child's Completion of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Parents of children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often experience significant caregiver burden and disruption to their well‐being. While parent quality of life (QoL) during treatment is well characterized, little is known about outcomes during early survivorship.
Sara Dal Pra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Menopausia y evolución

open access: yesIatreia, 2000
Se cuestiona una posible relación entre dos eventos asociados a “lo natural”. Al hacerlo, se establece un marco conceptual para cada uno de los eventos.
Darío Gil Torres
doaj  

Contextos (in)adequados para o engajamento cidadão no controle social

open access: yesRevista de Administração Pública, 2016
Resumo Esse trabalho partiu de um quadro bibliográfico sobre a influência do contexto nos objetos de análise, para compreender as características e as condições de atuação dos cidadãos nos municípios de Minas Gerais, visando abranger os aspectos que ...
Marjorie Sabioni   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social interactions dominate speed control in driving natural flocks toward criticality

open access: yes, 2013
Flocks of birds exhibit a remarkable degree of coordination and collective response. It is not just that thousands of individuals fly, on average, in the same direction and at the same speed, but that even the fluctuations around the mean velocity are ...
Bialek, William   +7 more
core   +1 more source

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