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Predicting (un)healthy behavior: A comparison of risk-taking propensity measures

Judgment and Decision Making, 2012
We compare four different risk-taking propensity measures on their ability to describe and to predict actual risky behavior in the domain of health.
Helena Szrek, Li-Wei Chao, Shandir Ramlagan, Karl Peltzer   +3 more
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Woodland clearance in the Mesolithic: the social aspects. [PDF]

, 2005
Did Mesolithic people regard the woodland as a wilderness or park? Previous models have portrayed the hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic as in tune with nature and making use of clearings to attract game.
Davies, P, Ladbrook, D, Robb, J.G
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Social constructions of gender roles, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS in two communities of the Western Cape, South Africa

SAHARA-J, 2006
The links between gender roles, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS risk are complex and culturally specific. In this qualitative study we investigated how women and men in two black communities in the Western Cape, South Africa, constructed their gender ...
Anna Strebel, Mary Crawford, Tamara Shefer, Allanise Cloete, Nomvo Dwadwa-Henda, Michelle Kaufman, Leickness Simbayi, Kgobati Magome, Seth Kalichman   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review of the monograph by O.V. Vasilyeva “Ethnicity and Society in the Re-public of Sakha (Yakutia): Sociological Analysis” (Yakutsk, 2020)

Историческая этнология, 2021
The article is devoted to the analysis of a new book – a monograph by O.V. Va-silyeva “Ethnicity and Society in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): Sociological Analy-sis”, published in 2020 in Yakutsk.
Gulnara F. Gabdrakhmanova
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Social Aspects in the Assessment of Biobased Value Chains

, 2020
Social Life-Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) is under continuous development. The Methodological Sheets for Subcategories in S-LCA are a set of guidelines commonly used for the performance of such assessments.
N. M. Marting Vidaurre, Ricardo Vargas‐Carpintero, Moritz Wagner, J. Lask, I. Lewandowski   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Book Reviews

SAHARA-J, 2006
Moving Mountains:The Race to Treat Global AIDS By Anne-Christine D'Adesky, London & New York:Verso, 2004, ISBN 1-84467-002-3, 473 pp. Reviewed by Nkululeko Nkomo.
Nkululeko Nkomo
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Usage-based Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Cognitive and Social Aspects

, 2020
Usage-based approaches focus on learning language through engaging in the interpersonal communicative and cognitive processes. They consider language as the best accomplishment of our social and cognitive competences which bridges society and cognition ...
Y. Javadi, Fakhereh Kazemirad
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Eye care utilization pattern in South Africa: results from SANHANES-1

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Eye examinations are recommended for all persons throughout life. However, there is disparity in the uptake of eye care services in different populations.
Kwadwo Owusu Akuffo, Ronel Sewpaul, Natisha Dukhi, Akosua Kesewah Asare, David Ben Kumah, Emmanuel Kofi Addo, Eldad Agyei-Manu, Priscilla Reddy   +7 more
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The Social and Political Aspects of Permanent Housing Provision for Earthquake Tsunami and Liquefaction Casualties in Palu City, Central Sulawesi

JKAP (Jurnal Kebijakan dan Administrasi Publik), 2022
An earthquake that struck Palu City, Central Sulawesi Province on September 28, 2018 rose potential problems. One of them is the permanent housing (huntap) provision for 6,504 earthquake-affected households.
Nursamsir Nursamsir, Indar Ismail Jamaluddin, Muhammad Iqbal, Ismanto Ismanto   +3 more
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Aspects of Sex Differences: Social Intelligence vs. Creative Intelligence [PDF]

, 2017
In this article, we argue that there is an essential difference between social intelligence and creative intelligence, and that they have their foundation in human sexuality.
Fellmann, Ferdinand, Redolfi Widmann, Esther   +1 more
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