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BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Most older people, and especially those in need of long-term care, suffer from one or more chronic diseases. Consequently, older people have an increased need of medical care, including specialist care.
Maike Schulz +8 more
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Examining Sentiment in Complex Texts. A Comparison of Different Computational Approaches
Frontiers in Big Data, 2022 Can we rely on computational methods to accurately analyze complex texts? To answer this question, we compared different dictionary and scaling methods used in predicting the sentiment of German literature reviews to the “gold standard” of human-coded ...
Stefan Munnes +7 more
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Migration is a phenomenon worldwide, with older migrants, particularly those with fewer socioeconomic resources, having an increased risk of developing adverse cognitive and health outcomes and social isolation.
Ana C. Teixeira-Santos +7 more
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Does Sociology Need Open Science?
Societies, 2021 Reliability, transparency, and ethical crises pushed many social science disciplines toward dramatic changes, in particular psychology and more recently political science. This paper discusses why sociology should also change.
Nate Breznau
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Does Antwerp Belong to Everyone? Unveiling the Conditional Limits to Inclusive Urban Citizenship
Social Inclusion, 2014 Recent theoretical discussions have indicated that citizenship is not only a way of being, but also a way of behaving. This article aims to show how attempts to regulate the behaviour of the citizenry can introduce a new topography of inclusion and ...
Nicolas Van Puymbroeck +2 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2019 Background The existence, usage and benefits of digital technologies in nursing care are relevant topics in the light of the current discussion on technologies as possible solutions to problems such as the shortage of skilled workers and the increasing ...
Tobias Krick +5 more
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Inequality and Inequity in Network-based Ranking and Recommendation Algorithms [PDF]
Sci Rep 12, 2012 (2022), 2021 Though algorithms promise many benefits including efficiency, objectivity and accuracy, they may also introduce or amplify biases. Here we study two well-known algorithms, namely PageRank and Who-to-Follow (WTF), and show to what extent their ranks produce inequality and inequity when applied to directed social networks.
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020 Background Elderly in need of long-term care tend to have worse health and have higher need of medical care than elderly without need for long-term care.
Maike Schulz +10 more
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The dilemma of “sustainable welfare” and the problem of the future in capacitating social policy
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2022 This article discusses a dilemma of welfare states in the ecological transition. While the principle of “sustainability” is increasingly accepted, there are very different concrete declinations of it.
Francesco Laruffa
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The Noborder Movement: Interpersonal Struggle with Political Ideals
Social Inclusion, 2017 Over the last decade, self-organized refugee protests in Europe have increased. One strand of activism in Europe, noborder, involves a transnational network of people who are heterogeneous with regards to legal status, race, or individual history of ...
Leslie Gauditz
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