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Social Welfare and Social Control

open access: yesJapanese Sociological Review, 1994
In the field of welfare and health services for the aged and the disabled, a policy shift from institution-based services to community-based services has gradually introduced in Japan since the early 1980s. At the beginning of the 1980s, this policy shift tended to be seen as an outcome of “disability rights movement” in the 1970s.
openaire   +3 more sources

Identification of novel small molecule inhibitors of ETS transcription factors

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
ETS transcription factors play an essential role in tumourigenesis and are indispensable for sprouting angiogenesis, a hallmark of cancer, which fuels tumour expansion and dissemination. Thus, targeting ETS transcription factor function could represent an effective, multifaceted strategy to block tumour growth. The evolutionarily conserved E‐Twenty‐Six
Shaima Abdalla   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social media and self-control: The vices and virtues of attention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Self-control, the capacity to resist temptations and pursue longer-term goals over immediate gratifications, is crucial in determining the overall shape of our lives, and thereby in our ability to shape our identities.
Bermúdez, Juan Pablo
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Denunciation and Social Control [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Sociological Review, 2017
It has long been observed that centralized social control requires some level of cooperation from the populace. Without such assistance, control agents are unable to acquire the local knowledge necessary to locate and prosecute deviants. Yet why citizens cooperate with authorities, especially in the most repressive regimes, remains a puzzle.
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From social control to financial economics:The linked ecologies of economics and business in twentieth century America [PDF]

open access: yes
This article draws on historical material to examine the co-evolution of economic science and business education over the course of the twentieth century, showing that fields evolve not only through internal struggles but also through struggles taking ...
Fourcade, Marion, Khurana, Rakesh
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Social context prevents heat hormetic effects against mutagens during fish development

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This study shows that sublethal heat stress protects fish embryos against ultraviolet radiation, a concept known as ‘hormesis’. However, chemical stress transmission between fish embryos negates this protective effect. By providing evidence for the mechanistic molecular basis of heat stress hormesis and interindividual stress communication, this study ...
Lauric Feugere   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Balancing User Preferences by Social Networks: A Condition-Guided Social Recommendation Model for Mitigating Popularity Bias [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
Social recommendation models weave social interactions into their design to provide uniquely personalized recommendation results for users. However, social networks not only amplify the popularity bias in recommendation models, resulting in more frequent recommendation of hot items and fewer long-tail items, but also include a substantial amount of ...
arxiv  

PROBLEMS OF CONTROL IN THE SOCIAL SPHERE

open access: yesIJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences, 2017
The content is more broadly focused on that part of public relations where there is an increasing control deficit. The issue that draws attention and concentrates on itself the analysis is the operation of the administrative control system and its impact on the actions and performance of the executive authority.
Evgeniy Stoyanov   +2 more
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Quality Control in Online Courses: Using a Social Constructivist Framework [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
There has recently been increased interest in the quality of online courses. Faculty from the School of Education at Marquette University suggest using social constructivist theories in the design and development of online courses and in the training and
Schweizer, Heidi   +2 more
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