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Impact of social complexity on outcomes in cystic fibrosis after transfer to adult care. [PDF]
Pediatr Pulmonol, 2018 Objective This study evaluates the roles of medical and social complexity in health care use outcomes in cystic fibrosis (CF) after transfer from pediatric to adult care.
Crowley EM +4 more
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The diversity of social complexity in termites. [PDF]
Proc Biol SciSociality underpins major evolutionary transitions and significantly influences the structure and function of complex ecosystems. Social insects, seen as the pinnacle of sociality, have traits like obligate sterility that are considered ‘master traits’, used as single phenotypic measures of this complexity. However, evidence is mounting that completely
Revely L +4 more
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Complexity in Economic and Social Systems [PDF]
Entropy, 2021 During recent years we have witnessed a systematic progress in the understanding of complex systems, both in the case of particular systems that are classified into this group and, in general, as regards the phenomenon of complexity [...]
Stanislaw Drozdz +2 more
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The complexity of social coordination [PDF]
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2012 Coordination is a challenging everyday task; just think of the last time you organized a party or a meeting involving several people. As a growing part of our social and professional life goes online, an opportunity for an improved coordination process arises. Recently, Gupta et al.
Konstantinos Mamouras +4 more
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Background In many countries, including in the United Kingdom (UK), COVID-19 social distancing measures placed substantial restrictions on children’s lives in 2020 and 2021, including closure of schools and limitations on play.
Graham Moore +8 more
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Unsafe sex is one of the main morbidity and mortality risk factors associated with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in young people. Behavioral change interventions for promoting safe sex have lacked specificity and theoretical elements ...
Manuel Armayones Ruiz +6 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2021 Background Over ten years on from a randomised controlled trial and subsequent national roll-out, the National Exercise Referral Scheme (NERS) continues to be routinely delivered in primary care across Wales, UK.
Kelly Morgan +3 more
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A Framework to Understand Attitudes towards Immigration through Twitter
Applied Sciences, 2021 Understanding public opinion towards immigrants is key to prevent acts of violence, discrimination and abuse. Traditional data sources, such as surveys, provide rich insights into the formation of such attitudes; yet, they are costly and offer limited ...
Yerka Freire-Vidal +2 more
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Social complexity: patterns, processes, and evolution [PDF]
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2019 Animal and human societies exhibit extreme diversity in the size, composition and cohesion of their social units, in the patterning of sex-specific reproductive skew, in the nature of parental care, in the form and frequency of cooperation and in their competitive regime, creating a diversity of socially complex societies.
Peter M. Kappeler +3 more
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Public Health Research, 2023 Background E-cigarettes are a popular smoking-cessation tool. Although less harmful than tobacco, use of e-cigarettes by non-smokers should be prevented. There is concern about the use of e-cigarettes by young people and that e-cigarettes may renormalise
Moore Graham +12 more
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