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Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law
, 2005 When the probability of measuring a particular value of some quantity varies inversely as a power of that value, the quantity is said to follow a power law, also known variously as Zipf's law or the Pareto distribution.
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Human Rights and the Forgotten Acts of Meaning in the Social Conventions of Conceptual Jurisprudence [PDF]
, 2014 This essay claims that a rupture between two languages permeates human rights discourse in contemporary Anglo-American legal thought. Human rights law is no exception.
Conklin, William
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The entropic basis of collective behaviour [PDF]
, 2014 We identify a unique viewpoint on the collective behaviour of intelligent agents. We first develop a highly general abstract model for the possible future lives these agents may encounter as a result of their decisions.
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Bulletin of Kharkiv National University of Internal AffairsThe article emphasises that for the actors of the security and defence sector, solving various communication situations is a constant and important task which can become difficult to perform if the social intelligence abilities are not sufficiently ...
S. V. Kharchenko, O. V. Koldashov
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Social correlates of leisure-time sedentary behaviours in Canadian adults
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2017 Research on the correlates of sedentary behaviour among adults is needed to design health interventions to modify this behaviour. This study explored the associations of social correlates with leisure-time sedentary behaviour of Canadian adults, and ...
S. Huffman, M. Szafron
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Animal cruelty by children and juveniles: Case studies in veterinary forensic and legal practice [PDF]
Veterinarski GlasnikThe criminal offense of animal killing and abuse was introduced into the Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia in 2006, and in 2009, the Animal Welfare Law was adopted.
Davitkov Dajana +2 more
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Cultural Violence represented in Indonesia and American Literatures
SHS Web of Conferences, 2018 This article is aimed at describing the lives of dominated people of both Indonesia and America. Among the dominated people in Indonesian community are Indonesian Chinese people, and those in American community are African American people. The discussion
Mu’in Fatchul, Effendi Rustam
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Is there any such thing as a social or behavioural science? : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Philosophy at Massey University [PDF]
, 1985 The type of explanation characteristic of science is causal, and it is natural to think that this type of explanation is appropriate for all events, no matter what their nature. It is this global assumption that is questioned in this thesis. Chapter One
Russell, Michael Gordon
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Gender diversity on corporate boards: an empirical investigation of Italian listed companies [PDF]
, 2017 In recent years, there has been a growing consensus that gender diversity could improve the economic and social performance of companies—although progress has been painfully slow. In Italy, Law n.
Coluccia, Daniela +2 more
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SAGE OpenThe implementation of China’s Social Insurance Law may increase the burden of social insurance contributions on enterprises, potentially affecting their production behaviour.
Bomin Liu, Cai Zhang, Junwei Zhang
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