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Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Building upon a process-and context-oriented information quality framework, this paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young users of age 18 and under search for information online, how they evaluate information, and how ...
Ashley Lee   +3 more
core  

Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Living on the Margins: Characteristics of Slum Neighborhoods of Ahvaz Metropolis [PDF]

open access: yesمسائل اجتماعی ایران
"Living on the margins" is made up of the conditions and circumstances and consequences of structural factors on the people left out of attention.
Shala Bagheri Miab   +2 more
doaj  

Efficacy, safety and cost‐effectiveness of CAR‐T therapy

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
CAR T‐cells demonstrate high efficacy in blood cancers, including ALL, MM and DLBCL. Innovations target solid tumours despite challenges such as antigen escape. Combination therapies enhance the delivery and infiltration of CAR T cells. Toxicity, cost and resistance remain major barriers to clinical use.
Emina Karahmet Sher   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organizational Institutionalism and Sociology: A Reflection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
[Excerpt] In 1991, DiMaggio and Powell observed: Institutional theory presents a paradox. Institutional analysis is as old as Emile Durkheim\u27s exhortation to study \u27social facts as things\u27, yet sufficiently novel to be preceded by new in much of
Tolbert, Pamela S
core   +1 more source

Impact of secured prescription implementation on ambulatory pregabalin use in France: A regional assessment in the French Nouvelle‐Aquitaine

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim The French authorities mandated the use of secure prescriptions for pregabalin on May 2021. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of this measure on pregabalin use and misuse in Nouvelle‐Aquitaine, a southwestern French region with around six million inhabitants.
Maika Munech‐Herran   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Sociological Perspective on Drug Mishandling in Contemporary Sesotho Literature: An Analysis of Brian Makara’s Poem ‘Sethethefatsi’ [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This study examines the social representation of drug abuse in Brian Makara’s poem “Sethethefatsi.” The prevalence of drug abuse among South African township youth has increased dramatically.
Soyiso Khetoa
doaj   +1 more source

IR theory, historical materialism, and the false promise of international historical sociology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The three-decades old call for an inter-disciplinary rapprochement between IR Theory and Historical Sociology, starting in the context of the post-positivist debate in the 1980s, has generated a proliferating repertory of contending paradigms within the ...
Teschke, Benno
core   +1 more source

Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sexual abuse and unwanted pregnancies amongst women and girls in Malawi during the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background Violence against women and girls increased during the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe. This study investigates the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to sexual abuse towards women and girls in Malawi and explores if there was
Lana Clara Chikhungu, Ugochi Nkwunonwo
doaj   +1 more source

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