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On the run: perspectives on long distance running. [PDF]
The aim of this study was to develop a deeper understanding of the experiences of long distance runners. An etlmographic research design was adopted to understand the nature of the social world of long distance runners through interviews and ...
Shipway, Richard
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Social Distancing via Social Scheduling
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2023 Motivated by the need for social distancing during a pandemic, we consider an approach to schedule the visitors of a facility (e.g., a general store). Our algorithms take input from the citizens and schedule the store's discrete time-slots based on their importance in visiting the facility. We consider indivisible customer job requests that take single
Deepesh Kumar Lall +2 more
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Social Distancing Network Creation
Algorithmica, 2023 AbstractDuring a pandemic people have to find a trade-off between meeting others and staying safely at home. While meeting others is pleasant, it also increases the risk of infection. We consider this dilemma by introducing a game-theoretic network creation model in which selfish agents can form bilateral connections.
Friedrich, Tobias +3 more
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Design and Simulation of Manufacturing Organizations Based on a Novel Function-Based Concept
Applied Sciences, 2022 Historically, researchers and managers have often failed to consider organizations as a sum of functions leading to a set of capabilities that produce a product that can serve society’s needs. Furthermore, functions have increased with the development of
Mareike Winkler +2 more
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The Biopolitics of Social Distancing [PDF]
Social Media + Society, 2020 As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, new technologies are being leveraged to enforce social distancing requirements. I explore social distancing through the theoretical lens of Michel Foucault’s biopolitics, with an emphasis on recognizing unauthorized movement and controlling circulation.
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Mapping gender stereotypes: a network analysis approach
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionStereotypes have traditionally been considered as “mental pictures” of a particular social group. The current research aims to draw the structure of gender stereotypes and metastereotype schemes as complex systems of stereotypical features ...
Ángel Sánchez-Rodríguez +2 more
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Behavioral Sciences, 2019 The objective of the present study is to analyze non-professional soccer players’ preferences regarding coach leadership style and motivational climate and to determine the relationship of these variables with players’ satisfaction, sport ...
Concepción Calvo, Gabriela Topa
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Psychological Topics, 2021 The rising age of retirement may result in a larger number of workers with health problems. This is important since health is a key element in all aspects of life, including work.
José-María Figueredo +3 more
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Reclaiming the social from ‘social distancing’ [PDF]
Social Anthropology, 2020 It is hard to reconcile a discipline that is founded on the slow, measured reasoning of ethnographic fieldwork with reactive commentary on current affairs But all the while the neoliberal university has made many of the social sciences increasingly introspective, one consequence of the COVID‐19 pandemic is that we are in a historical moment which ...
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Social aspects associated with modern distance learning programmes [PDF]
The repositioning of the distance learning as a mode of course delivery is largely backed up by the recent advancements in communication technologies.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +2 more
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