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“Being Nice” as Modus Vivendi in Classrooms: A Collective Behavior Approach to Deviant Behavior in Primary Schools

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study of first‐year primary school draws on Goffman's concept of “collective behavior” to examine how order is established and disrupted through the mutual adjustment of all participants' actions. We employed a multi‐method longitudinal design, using semi‐standardized observations and qualitative interviews with teachers and children at three ...
Doris Bühler‐Niederberger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Policy Uncertainty and Structural Transformation in Africa: The Conditional Role of Human Resource Development

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study has investigated two objectives. First, it examines the unconditional impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on Africa's structural transformation. Second, it explores the conditional role of human resource development in the nexus between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and structural transformation.
Ekene ThankGod Emeka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors influencing the nature of client complaint behaviour in the aftermath of adverse events

open access: yesVeterinary Record, Volume 196, Issue 6, 15/22 March 2025.
Abstract Background Negative veterinary client complaint behaviour poses wellbeing and reputational risks. Adverse events are one source of complaint. Identifying factors that influence adverse event‐related complaint behaviour is key to mitigating detrimental consequences and harnessing information that can be used to improve service quality, patient ...
Julie Gibson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An integrated integral projection model (IPM2) to disentangle size‐structured harvest and natural mortality

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
An IPM2—a combination of an integrated population model and integral projection model—creates a synergistic modelling framework useful for disentangling multiple size‐structured demographic rates and understanding the effectiveness of invasive European green crab removal efforts.
Abigail G. Keller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reinforcement learning algorithm based on minimum state method and average reward

open access: yesTongxin xuebao, 2011
In allusion to the problem that Q-Learning,which was used discount reward as the evaluation criterion,could not show the affect of the action to the next situation,AR-Q-Learning was put forward based on the average reward and Q-Learning.In allusion to ...
LIU Quan1   +4 more
doaj  

Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
wiley   +1 more source

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