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Fostering energy efficiency dynamics through ex-ante strategic niche management: the UK perspective [PDF]

, 2013
The United Kingdom building sector has been challenged to retrofit a huge stock of existing buildings in order to increase its adaptive capacity for climate change impacts.
Goulding, Jack Steven, Thakore, Renuka, Toogood, Mark   +2 more
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Immigration and the School System [PDF]

Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging effects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic.
Antonio Cabrales, Esther Hauk, Facundo Albornoz   +2 more
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Communicating the social sciences [PDF]

, 2008
This chapter reviews the sparse and somewhat scattered research literature that has specifically addressed the public communication of the social sciences (PCSS).
Cassidy, A
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Social Networks of Researchers in Business To Business Marketing: A Case Study of the IMP Group 1984-1999 [PDF]

Science is a social process that functions through social networks of researchers that form invisible colleges. Analysis of these social networks provides a means for examining the structure of relations among researchers.
Ian F. Wilkinson, Louise Young, Piera Morlacchi   +2 more
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Mining Urban Performance: Scale-Independent Classification of Cities Based on Individual Economic Transactions

, 2014
Intensive development of urban systems creates a number of challenges for urban planners and policy makers in order to maintain sustainable growth. Running efficient urban policies requires meaningful urban metrics, which could quantify important urban ...
Arias, Juan Murillo, Combes, Remi Tachet des, Grauwin, Sebastian, Hawelka, Bartosz, Ratti, Carlo, Sitko, Izabela, Sobolevsky, Stanislav   +6 more
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Reification and Recollection: Emancipatory Intentions and the Sociology of Knowledge [PDF]

Bonaparte Louis-Napoléon, Vaillant . Nominations de Recteurs. In: Bulletin administratif de l'instruction publique. Tome 13 n°153, septembre 1862. pp.
Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon, Vaillant
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Editorial: Novel sociological methods and practices of engagement across disability communities. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Landry D, Middelmann T, Abay R, Morgan H, Soldatić K.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Prison categorization policy in the United Kingdom. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Thomas S, Glazzard J.
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Institutions, Social Norms, and Bargaining Power: An Analysis of Individual Leisure Time in Couple Households [PDF]

We exploit time use data from Denmark and the United States to examine the impact institutions and social norms have on individuals' bargaining power within a household, hypothesizing that the more generous social welfare system and more egalitarian ...
Leslie S Stratton, Nabanita Datta Gupta
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A Bourdieusian Approach to the Demobilisation of Brazil's AIDS Movement. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn
Achcar HM.
europepmc   +1 more source