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Population, Migration, Living Standard and Social Pressure: A Modeling Approach from Thermodynamics [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2013 Human societies are complex thermodynamic systems. It is natural to ask to what extent results obtained from simple thermodynamic systems can be extended to provide insights into more complex thermodynamic systems.
Jing Chen
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No Fans–No Pressure: Referees in Professional Football During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2021 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, European elite football (a.k.a. soccer) leagues played the remaining season 2019/20 without or strongly limited attendance of supporters (i.e., “ghost games”).
Michael Christian Leitner +3 more
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Social Pressure in Networks Induces Public Good Provision
Games, 2021 I develop a dynamic model with forward looking agents, and show that social pressure is effective in generating provision in a public good game: after a small group of agents start contributing to the public good, other agents decide to contribute as ...
David Jimenez-Gomez
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Cover-up or true? does CSR disclosure really contribute to corporate environmental performance?
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 Do companies disclose their environmental social responsibility to demonstrate their good environmental performance or to cover up their poor environmental performance?
Feifei Yun, Tian Lan, Yu Chen
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Social Risks as the Source of Threats and Concerns: The Survey in the Czech Republic
Societies, 2021 The object of this research was to determine the subjective recognized social threats in the context of contemporary society. Given the growing number of people who feel threatened by certain social threats, there is a presumption that the risk is real ...
Ludmila Siarda Trochtová +2 more
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Do Data from Large Personal Networks Support Cultural Evolutionary Ideas about Kin and Fertility?
Social Sciences, 2021 The fertility decline associated with economic development has been attributed to a host of interrelated causes including the rising costs of children with industrialization, and shifts in family structure.
Gert Stulp, Louise Barrett
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Social factors affecting women's tendency to body management in Qom [PDF]
Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2020 The present study aimed to investigate the effect of social factors on women’s Body Management in Qom. The theoretical framework was based on various theories by Giddens, Goffman, Nan Lane, Cooley, and Homans. This study was based on a survey design, and
A. Babaiefard, T. Yoosefifar, Z. Amjadi
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Microcrédit et surendettement des femmes de la Haute-Guinée
Revue Internationale des Études du Développement, 2022 Following various payment crises that shook the microfinance sector in the 2009-2012 period, over-indebtedness has become a major concern. The case of Upper Guinea, which is studied here, illustrates this phenomenon.
Soumahila Bayo
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Social Pressure in Opinion Games [PDF]
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017 Motivated by privacy and security concerns in online social networks, we study the role of social pressure in opinion games. These are games, important in economics and sociology, that model the formation of opinions in a social network. We enrich the definition of (noisy) best-response dynamics for opinion games by introducing the pressure, increasing
FERRAIOLI, DIODATO, VENTRE, CARMINE
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Investigating the Effects of Work and Social Stress Factors on Job Performance of Auditors [PDF]
حسابداری سلامت, 2020 Introduction: Job stress is a stress that a particular person is under when performing a certain occupation, and which is created through interactions between work conditions and the characteristics of the worker.
M. Salehi Dashti, R. Saedi (Ph. D.)
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