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Network explanations of the gender gap in migrants’ employment patterns: Use of online and offline networks in the Netherlands

open access: yesJournal of Family Research, 2021
Objective: We investigate the relation between having online and offline personal networks and employment for male and female migrants in the Netherlands.
Başak Bilecen, Verena Seibel
doaj   +1 more source

Personalizing access to learning networks [PDF]

open access: yesACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2008
In this article, we describe a Smart Space for Learning™ (SS4L) framework and infrastructure that enables personalized access to distributed heterogeneous knowledge repositories. Helping a learner to choose an appropriate learning resource or activity is a key problem which we address in this framework, enabling ...
Peter Dolog   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

On Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Networks in a Multilayered Reality: Clashing Interests in the Ethnic Enclave of Lloret de Mar

open access: yesSocieties, 2014
Over the last decade, the tourist destination of Lloret de Mar (Gerona, Spain) has experienced an increasing concentration of souvenir stores owned by a population of Indian origin.
Hugo Valenzuela-García   +5 more
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Upward Mobility in Education: The Role of Personal Networks Across the Life Course

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2021
How do individuals achieve upward mobility in education despite the well‐documented mechanisms that foster reproduction of inequalities? This question presents a fundamental puzzle for social science researchers and has generated an increasing body of ...
Nicolas M. Legewie
doaj   +1 more source

Temporalités de l’évolution des relations et des réseaux en contexte de mobilité internationale

open access: yesTemporalités, 2018
Migration studies have focused on the relational dimension of the migration process, but the subject has rarely been systematically studied using social network analysis.
Caterina Thomàs-Vanrell
doaj   +1 more source

Les quatre temps d’un séjour en résidence universitaire

open access: yesTemporalités, 2018
My aim has been to grasp the dynamics of small groups and personal networks from their genesis to their disappearance. To this end, since 2011, I have conducted ethnographic surveys in three student residences located in France, the United States and ...
Marion Ink
doaj   +1 more source

Neighbourhood-based social integration. The importance of the local context for different forms of resource transfer

open access: yesRaumforschung und Raumordnung, 2019
Due to their lack of financial resources, poor residents of deprived neighbourhoods are very much reliant on support and assistance from their personal networks. Studies refer to the key importance of neighbourhood contacts transcending social boundaries
Farwick Andreas   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

In Good Company? Personal Relationships, Network Embeddedness, and Social Inclusion

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2021
How do individuals’ networks of personal relationships affect their social in‐ and exclusion? Researchers have shown that micro‐level, informal relationships can be highly consequential for social inclusion, but in complex, contradictory ways: Personal ...
Miranda J. Lubbers
doaj   +1 more source

A Fault-Tolerant Scheme for Mobility Management in PCS Networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
[[abstract]]One of the most important and challenging issues in the design of personal communication service (PCS) systems is the management of location information.
Yang, Ming-Jeng;Yeh, Yao-Ming
core  

Personal area technologies for internetworked services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This article reviews wireless enabling technologies to support interworking of heterogeneous networks, and covers two relevant topics; personal area networks and multistandard terminals.
Williams, C   +19 more
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