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The hospital ‘superbug’: social representations of MRSA [PDF]
, 2006 The so-called ‘hospital superbug’ methcillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) became a topic of media and political concern from the middle of the 1990’s.
Joffe, H., Washer, P.
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Underestimated Cost of Targeted Attacks on Complex Networks
Complexity, 2018 The robustness of complex networks under targeted attacks is deeply connected to the resilience of complex systems, which is defined as the ability to make appropriate response to the attack. In this paper, we study robustness of complex networks under a
Xiao-Long Ren +3 more
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Students’ social representations about world culture
Вестник университета, 2022 The relevance of the problem under study stems from the interest that social representations have in modern science, as well as the role of students in the development of the modern world.
E. V. Zvonova, A. S. Gruzdeva
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Innovating thermal treatment of municipal solid waste (MSW): Socio-technical change linking expectations and representations [PDF]
, 2017 This paper combines two theoretical perspectives: future technological expectations mobilising resources; and social representations assimilating new ideas through anchoring onto familiar frames of reference.
Berti, Les Levidow, Levidow, Paul Upham
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Social representation of competition and fraud [PDF]
, 2013 Good citizenship includes fair competitive strategies. Dishonest competitive behaviour – such as fraud – can reflect the absence of one main characteristic of good citizenship as mindfulness of laws and social rules.
Orosz, Gábor, Roland-Lévy, Christine
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Social Representations of Intelligence
Psicodebate, 2016 The article stresses the relationship between Explicit and Implicit theories of Intelligence. Following the line of common sense epistemology and the theory of Social Representations, a study was carried out in order to analyze naive’s explanations about
Elena Zubieta, Jose Valencia
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Alcohol in the life narratives of women: Commonalities and differences by sexual orientation [PDF]
, 2013 Aim: The aim of this study was to explore social representations of alcohol use among women, with a focus on possible differences between sexual minority and heterosexual women.
Drabble, Laurie A, Trocki, K.
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Nordicom Review, 2011 This article argues that the theory of social representations can give valuable contributions to media research. It offers a new theory-based approach for studying how the media and citizens socially represent societal and political issues colouring our ...
Höijer Birgitta
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Structural and content characteristics of students’ social representations of success [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Акмеология образования. Психология развитияThe relevance of the study is due to the fact that young people’s ideas of success characterize their sphere of purposes and aspirations and serve as a regulator for their concept of self-determination and self-realization in a rapidly and ...
Arendachuk, Irina V. +2 more
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Homeless people's social representations about self-care [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020 Objectives: To capture and analyze the structure of homeless people’s social representations about self-care. Methods: Research based on the theory of social representations, with 122 people in street situation.
Dejeane de Oliveira Silva +5 more
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