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Growth and Diversification of Horticulture Crops in Karnataka

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2014
With the growth of technology, modernization, and changes in food habits, agricultural cropping pattern of the country has undergone a major shift in the recent past, moving away from the cereal to non-cereal crops cultivation, especially toward the ...
Komol Singha   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

D-Sempre: Learning Deep Semantic-Preserving Embeddings for User interests-Social Contents Modeling [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
Exponential growth of social media consumption demands effective user interests-social contents modeling for more personalized recommendation and social media summarization. However, due to the heterogeneous nature of social contents, traditional approaches lack the ability of capturing the hidden semantic correlations across these multi-modal data ...
arxiv  

Empowering newcomers? Power asymmetries and negotiations between newly arrived migrants and volunteers within buddy programmes

open access: yesInternational Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring
Research on buddy programmes for newly arrived migrants focuses predominantly on integration outcomes. However, the intervention is also prone to reproducing power imbalances.
Gaëlle Mortier   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Linking Higher Education and Social Change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
More than four thousand stories could be told about the remarkable individuals who received fellowships under the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP) between 2001 and 2010.
Joan Dassin   +2 more
core  

From polarization to reluctant acceptance–bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and the post-normalization of the climate debate

open access: yesJournal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 2019
The paper covers the public debate on BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage) between 2008 and 2018. Through a qualitative analysis of around 800 feature articles, editorials, and opinion pieces published in English, German, Swedish, Danish ...
Simon Haikola   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modeling Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks with Partial Differential Equations [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2013
Online social networks such as Twitter and Facebook have gained tremendous popularity for information exchange. The availability of unprecedented amounts of digital data has accelerated research on information diffusion in online social networks. However, the mechanism of information spreading in online social networks remains elusive due to the ...
arxiv  

Blogs as Elusive Ethnographic Texts

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2017
Burgeoning online environments offer completely new opportunities for ethnographic and other forms of qualitative research. Yet there are no clear standards for how we study online texts from an ethnographic perspective.
Liza C. Kurtz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Development of ‘Age Appropriate’ Living Environments: Analysis of Two Case Studies from a Social Work Perspective

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2019
As the growing number of older people, particularly in urban areas, and changing lifestyles are increasing the importance of continuing to live in the community (ageing in place), studies show that age-related planning of living environments is often ...
Carlo Fabian   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Social Media on Website Popularity: Differences between Public and Private Universities in Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yesWorld of Computer Science and Information Technology Journal (WCSIT), ISSN: 2221-0741, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 32-37, 2013, 2014
Social media has become something that is important to enhance social networking and sharing of information through the website. Social media have not only changed social networking, they provide a valuable tool for social organization, activism, political, healthcare and even academic relations in the university.
arxiv  

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and Human Social Factors in Climate Change Mitigation [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
Many complex real-world problems, such as climate change mitigation, are intertwined with human social factors. Climate change mitigation, a social dilemma made difficult by the inherent complexities of human behavior, has an impact at a global scale. We propose applying multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in this setting to develop intelligent ...
arxiv  

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