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Retrofit Poverty: Socioeconomic Spatial Disparities in Retrofit Subsidies Uptake

Buildings & Cities, 2020
Framed in the concept of distributional justice, retrofit poverty may be understood as the inequality of opportunity to improve the energy performance of the home.
Nicola Willand, Trivess Moore, Ralph Horne, Sarah Robertson   +3 more
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Designing healthy communities: creating evidence on metrics for built environment features associated with walkable neighbourhood activity centres

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2017
Background Evidence-based metrics are needed to inform urban policy to create healthy walkable communities. Most active living research has developed metrics of the environment around residential addresses, ignoring other important walking locations ...
Lucy Dubrelle Gunn, Suzanne Mavoa, Claire Boulangé, Paula Hooper, Anne Kavanagh, Billie Giles-Corti   +5 more
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Sentiment Lexicon Adaptation with Context and Semantics for the Social Web [PDF]

, 2017
Sentiment analysis over social streams offers governments and organisations a fast and effective way to monitor the publics' feelings towards policies, brands, business, etc.
Bollen, Feng, Lin, Shaffer, Thelwall, Turney, Turney, Weaver   +7 more
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Does context really collapse in social media interaction? [PDF]

, 2020
'Context collapse' (CC) refers to the phenomenon widely debated in social media research, where various audiences convene around single communicative acts in new networked publics, causing confusion and anxiety among social media users.
Blommaert, Jan, Szabla, Malgorzata
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The impact of tool selection on back and wrist injury risk in tying steel reinforcement bars: a single case experiment

Construction Economics and Building, 2019
The paper explores the risk of work-related musculoskeletal injury in tying steel reinforcement bars. Three tools are compared to determine the extent to which ergonomic tools can reduce the risk of injury to the back and wrist in steel-tying.
Helen Lingard, Isaac Selva Raj, Noel Lythgo, Olga Troynikov, Chris Fitzgerald   +4 more
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Key Components of Musical Discourse Analysis [PDF]

, 2013
Musical discourse analysis is an interdisciplinary study which is incomplete without consideration of relevant social, linguistic, psychological, visual, gestural, ritual, technical, historical and musicological aspects.
Agawu, Agawu, Alim, Alim, Barry, Barry, Baxter, Baxter, Becker, Becker, Bezemer, Bezemer, Bhatia, Bhatia, Bhatia, Bhatia, Bhatia, Bhatia, Bhatia, Bhatia, Blommaert, Blommaert, Bonini, Bonini, Bowker, Bowker, Bradby, Bradby, Bradby, Bradby, Bullz, Bullz, Crystal, Crystal, Cutler, Cutler, Davidson, Davidson, De, De, DeWall, DeWall, Doffman, Doffman, Dunyasheva, Dunyasheva, Evgeniya Aleshinskaya, Fairclough, Fairclough, Fairclough, Fairclough, Gunnarsson, Gunnarsson, Halloran, Halloran, Hargreaves, Hargreaves, Hitchcock, Hitchcock, Ibrahim, Ibrahim, John, John, Kemp Muhl, Kemp Muhl, Kreyer, Kreyer, Kurkul, Kurkul, Kyle, Kyle, Latham, Latham, London, London, Mackay, Mackay, Moore, Moore, Morgan, Morgan, Mudryan, Mudryan, Murphey, Murphey, Murphy, Murphy, Paltridge, Paltridge, Paul, Paul, Pavlovová, Pavlovová, Pennycook, Pennycook, Pettijohn, Pettijohn, Roy, Roy, Sawyer, Sawyer, Sawyer, Sawyer, Skrebnev, Skrebnev, Solomon, Solomon, Swales, Swales, Tagg, Tagg, Walser, Walser, Welch, Welch   +114 more
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Business and social entrepreneurs in the UK : gender, context and commitment [PDF]

, 2011
Objectives: What sort of people become social entrepreneurs, and in what way do they differ from business entrepreneurs? This question is important for policy because there has been a shift from direct to indirect delivery of many public services ...
Fidelma Ashe, Jonathan Levie, Mark Hart
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Associations between loneliness and perceived support among young persons in Sweden, based on self-reported data from the health behavior in school-aged children (HBSC) survey

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
Loneliness among young persons is an increasing concern in Sweden and internationally, yet knowledge about its relation to perceived social support remains limited.
Emma Edberg Matei, Pernilla Garmy, Eva-Lena Einberg, Tide Garnow, Joakim Ekstrand   +4 more
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Think Fast!: Vervet Monkeys Assess the Risk of Being Displaced by a Dominant Competitor When Making Foraging Decisions

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Foraging animals need to quickly assess the costs and benefits of different foraging decisions, including resource quantity, quality, preference, ease of access, dispersion, distance, and predation risk.
T. Jean M. Arseneau-Robar, T. Jean M. Arseneau-Robar, T. Jean M. Arseneau-Robar, Karyn A. Anderson, Karyn A. Anderson, Eric N. Vasey, Eric N. Vasey, Pascale Sicotte, Julie A. Teichroeb, Julie A. Teichroeb   +9 more
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An exploratory analysis of the interactions between social norms and the built environment on cycling for recreation and transport

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background There is growing evidence of the public health benefits of promoting cycling. The ways that the built environment and perceived social norms independently influence cycling participation is well established.
Matthew Bourke, Toni A Hilland, Melinda Craike   +2 more
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