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Controlled Information Fusion with Risk-Averse CVaR Social Sensors [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2017
Consider a multi-agent network comprised of risk averse social sensors and a controller that jointly seek to estimate an unknown state of nature, given noisy measurements. The network of social sensors perform Bayesian social learning - each sensor fuses the information revealed by previous social sensors along with its private valuation using Bayes ...
Bhatt, Sujay, Krishnamurthy, Vikram
arxiv   +3 more sources

Social Choice and Popular Control [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In democracies citizens are supposed to have some control over the general direction of policy. According to a pretheoretical interpretation of this idea, the people have control if elections and other democratic institutions compel officials to do what ...
Ingham, Sean
core   +1 more source

Social welfare and social control [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter provides an illustration of the elements of what may be considered to be heterodox economic thinking on the nature of social welfare and social control, and the relationships between them. We assume that social welfare relates to a class of functions, such as education, economic security, health care, and housing, which are provided by, or
Cumbers, Andrew, McMaster, Robert
openaire   +2 more sources

Social support, social control and health behavior change in spouses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Our work on support processes in intimate relationships has focused on how partners in committed relationships help one another contend with personal difficulties, and how partners elicit and provide support in their day-to-day interactions.
Bejanyan, Kathrine   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Popular participation in the management of SUS: construction of an intervention project for strengthening social control./Participação popular na gestão do SUS: construção de um projeto de intervenção para fortalecimento do controle social

open access: yesDiversitas Journal, 2020
Objective: To present the construction of an intervention planning to strengthen social control in a health unit of the Maceió-Alagoas family. Method: It consists of a research-action study whose product was the construction of an intervention project ...
Claudio José dos Santos Júnior   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards Social Identity in Socio-Cognitive Agents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Current architectures for social agents are designed around some specific units of social behaviour that address particular challenges. Although their performance might be adequate for controlled environments, deploying these agents in the wild is difficult.
arxiv   +1 more source

Civil control in local government: theory and practice

open access: yesПроблеми Законності, 2014
This article discovering in systematic way analysis of the theoretical and practical aspects of civil control in local government, the problems of monitoring the activities of agencies and local government officials, also author proposed areas of ...
О. А. Смоляр
doaj   +1 more source

Report on Sustainability: The UB’s Commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals. 2021-2022 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Podeu consultar la versió en català i anglès a recurs relacionatThe Report on sustainability includes the main actions carried out during the academic year (in this case 2020-2021) in relation to ethical commitment and social responsibility.
Universitat de Barcelona. Oficina de Control Intern, Riscos i Responsabilitat Social
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¿Bajo las riendas del teléfono móvil? Control social, normalización y resistencia Sob as rédeas do telefone móvel? Controle social, normalização e resistência Under the reins of mobile phone? Social control, normalization and resistance

open access: yesPsicologia & Sociedade, 2010
Los teléfonos móviles son una tecnología constitutiva de las relaciones sociales, inclusiva y cuyas prácticas asociadas participan en la formación del sujeto común en nuestros días, por medio del control social, la normalización y la resistencia ...
Felipe Andrés Corredor Álvarez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond America's War on Drugs: Developing Public Policy to Navigate the Prevailing Pharmacological Revolution

open access: yesAIMS Public Health, 2015
This paper places America's “war on drugs” in perspective in order to develop a new metaphor for control of drug misuse. A brief and focused history of America's experience with substance use and substance use policy over the past several hundred years ...
Andrew Golub   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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