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Proofs, proofs, proofs, and proofs [PDF]
In logic there is a clear concept of what constitutes a proof and what not. A proof is essentially defined as a finite sequence of formulae which are either axioms or derived by proof rules from formulae earlier in the sequence. Sociologically, however, it is more difficult to say what should constitute a proof and what not.
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"Meaning" as a sociological concept: A review of the modeling, mapping, and simulation of the communication of knowledge and meaning [PDF]
The development of discursive knowledge presumes the communication of meaning as analytically different from the communication of information. Knowledge can then be considered as a meaning which makes a difference. Whereas the communication of information is studied in the information sciences and scientometrics, the communication of meaning has been ...
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Labeling the Phrases of a Conversational Agent with a Unique Personalized Vocabulary [PDF]
Mapping spoken text to gestures is an important research topic for robots with conversation capabilities. According to studies on human co-speech gestures, a reasonable solution for mapping is using a concept-based approach in which a text is first mapped to a semantic cluster (i.e., a concept) containing texts with similar meanings. Subsequently, each
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Community and law: identifying the locus of law in community [PDF]
"Community and law approach" provides an illuminating insight into alternative legal orderings within a social unit. The comprehensiveness of legal systems within a community or a social unit, provides a suitable basis for a structural framework of ...
Yaylali, Mustafa
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A concern with questions of selfhood and identity has been central to penal practices in women's prisons, and to the sociology of women's imprisonment.
Rowe, Abigail
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Evaluating the linguistic coverage of OpenAlex: An assessment of metadata accuracy and completeness
Abstract Clarivate's Web of Science (WoS) and Elsevier's Scopus have been for decades the main sources of bibliometric information. Although highly curated, these closed, proprietary databases are largely biased toward English‐language publications, underestimating the use of other languages in research dissemination.
Lucía Céspedes+12 more
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F-formation Detection: Individuating Free-standing Conversational Groups in Images [PDF]
Detection of groups of interacting people is a very interesting and useful task in many modern technologies, with application fields spanning from video-surveillance to social robotics.
Chiara Bassetti+4 more
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Sustaining the “frozen footprints” of scholarly communication through open citations
Abstract This review examines the role of open citations in fostering transparency, reproducibility, and accessibility in scholarly communication. Through a critical synthesis of diverse sources—articles, proceedings, presentations, datasets, and blog posts—it explores the motivations behind citing, the evolving meanings of citations, and key ...
Zehra Taşkın
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Policy alienation of Dutch public sector professionals: an exploratory study [PDF]
Nowadays, many public professionals face identification problems towards public policies they have to implement; that is, they experience policy alienation.
Bekkers, V.J.J.M. (Victor)+2 more
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Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi+4 more
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