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Personalized Persuasion for Social Interactions in Nursing Homes [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 This paper presents our preliminary investigation and approach towards a mixed physical-virtual technology for stimulating social interactions among and with older adults in nursing homes. We report on set of surveys, apps and focus groups aiming at understanding the different motivations and obstacles in promoting social interactions in ...
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This research explored how young adults (ages 18–25) learn to use financial records and the roles financial records play in their experiences in coming to see themselves as financially mature social actors. The contribution of this paper is a revised model of transitions theory that includes personal information management (PIM) as an ...
Robert Douglas Ferguson +2 more
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A transition in the Dutch wastewater system? : The struggle between discourses and with lock-ins [PDF]
, 2019 Recently, calls have increased for a paradigm shift or transition towards resource recovery and a circular economy in the Dutch wastewater system. However, we have observed diverging interpretations on the nature of the transition.
Ampe, Kasper +4 more
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The evidence ecosystem in South Africa: growing resilience and institutionalisation of evidence use
Palgrave Communications, 2019 The evidence-informed approach to policy-making and implementation is, at its core, about better decisions for a better future. It is focused on the effective use of scarce resources, on avoiding harm and maximising good.
Ruth Stewart +3 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
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Sociologies, 2018 How can one understand the recent rise of the concept of hospitality in a series of political debates, but also in theoretical questions, such as the urban one?
Jean-Louis Genard
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Circulación y conexión mundial de saberes
Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2012 The authors show how scientific and technological research in Latin America has become institutionalised and has given rise to science policy questions and debates. This development has become a subject of study.
Antonio Arellano Hernández +2 more
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Mapiranje zenskih studijev in studijev spola v akademskem polju v Sloveniji [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of the present paper is to map the development of women’s and gender studies (WGS) in the academic field in Slovenia. Slovenia is the first of the former Yugoslav state republics in which WGS have succeeded in entering the academic field and ...
Antić, Gaber, Milica
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European Journal of Health Economics, 2018 ObjectivesTo examine the costs of caring for community-dwelling patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia in relation to the time to institutionalisation.MethodsGERAS was a prospective, non-interventional cohort study in community-dwelling patients
M. Belger +9 more
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Voting by Hands Promotes Institutionalised Monitoring in Indirect Reciprocity [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Indirect reciprocity based on reputation is a leading mechanism driving human cooperation, where monitoring of behaviour and sharing reputation-related information are crucial. Because collecting information is costly, a tragedy of the commons can arise, with some individuals free-riding on information supplied by others.
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