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Lazarsfeld's Legacy| Paul Lazarsfeld: Living in Circles and Talking Around Tables

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2022
This paper draws upon a series of interviews conducted with Paul Lazarsfeld and others who knew him, especially those who knew him as a young man in Vienna, the purpose of which is to demonstrate that his interest in mathematics and quantification is ...
David E. Morrison
doaj  

Cognition and Society. Treatment Forms at the Dawn of Feudalism: Señor and the Honorific Formulas with -ísimo

open access: yesVerba Hispanica, 2018
 The objective of this study is to delve into the origin of two treatment formulas: señor, from senior “older”, and those with the superlative suffix.
Andrzej Zieliński
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainability potential of app-based food loss measurement: Farmers' perspectives in southwestern British Columbia, Canada

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2022
Food loss is a systemic problem contributing to negative environmental, social, and economic impacts. However, despite food loss quantification being identified as critical for food loss prevention and reduction, there is a dearth of studies exploring ...
Alexander Hook, Tammara Soma
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Quantification of the propagation of rumors on social media

open access: yesCoRR, 2020
The propagation of a rumor (unverified information) on a social network is subject to several factors mainly related to the content of this information and especially to the behaviors (profiles) of the actors on this network that retransmit. This state of affairs may vary this propagation as the case may be, and this is what we call the depth of the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Quantification devices and political or social philosophy: thoughts inspired by the French State accounting reform [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Our various studies in the sociology of quantification have convinced us that it is possible to look at social or political philosophies and seemingly technical tools at the same time, considering them as a totality.
Eyraud, Corine
core   +1 more source

A Comparative Study of Automated Quantification in Digital Insurance

open access: yesInternational Journal of Digital Law and Governance
Insurance companies have always been at the forefront of developments in the processing of large volumes of data. This paper investigates in a comparative perspective the implications of the increasing reliance by insurers on automated quantification ...
Infantino Marta
doaj   +1 more source

Making data colonialism liveable: how might data’s social order be regulated?

open access: yesInternet Policy Review, 2019
Humanity is currently undergoing a large-scale social, economic and legal transformation based on the massive appropriation of social life through data extraction. This quantification of the social represents a new colonial move.
Nick Couldry, Ulises Mejias
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Serological Benefit of SARS‐CoV‐2 Vaccination Relative to Infection in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at risk of severe outcomes from SARS‐CoV‐2 (SCV2). In the post‐pandemic context, where most children have been infected with SCV2, there are limited data on whether vaccination remains beneficial in children with ALL.
Janna R. Shapiro   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying the role of social distancing, personal protection and case detection in mitigating COVID-19 outbreak in Ontario, Canada

open access: yesJournal of Mathematics in Industry, 2020
Public health interventions have been implemented to mitigate the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Ontario, Canada; however, the quantification of their effectiveness remains to be done and is important to determine if some of the social ...
Jianhong Wu   +4 more
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Human Factors Considerations for Quantifiable Human States in Physical Human–Robot Interaction: A Literature Review

open access: yesSensors, 2023
As the global population rapidly ages with longer life expectancy and declining birth rates, the need for healthcare services and caregivers for older adults is increasing.
Nourhan Abdulazeem, Yue Hu
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