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Methodological Perspectives of Doing Afrocentric Dementia Research in Africa

open access: yesBrain Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates the methodological strengths and limitations inherent in conventional dementia research in Africa, where reliance on translated instruments and imported diagnostic rubrics has produced uneven evidence and ethical inadequacy.
Oluwagbemiga Oyinlola
wiley   +1 more source

Metadata Creation, Transformation and Discovery for Social Science Data Management: The DAMES Project Infrastructure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper discusses the use of metadata, underpinned by DDI (Data Documentation Initiative), to support social science data management. Social science data management refers broadly to the discovery, preparation, and manipulation of social science data ...
Lambert, Paul   +6 more
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A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Science Libraries: Interdisciplinary Collections, Services, Networks

open access: yes, 2010
This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon the professional skills, collections, and services within social science libraries.
IFLA Social Science Libraries Section
core   +1 more source

What Constitutes an Attractive Product‐as‐a‐Service Offer? Examining Consumer Preferences for (Circular) Business Patterns

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Little is known about consumer preferences for combinations of circular business model patterns, despite their potential to benefit the design of product services. This study examines consumer preferences for product‐as‐a‐service offers, combined with circular product attributes, across Sweden and the Netherlands.
Steven Sarasini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Generative AI on the Perpetuation and Detection of Greenwashing in Sustainability Reports: Insights From an Experiment

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our study, based around an experiment, examines the consequences when generative AI tools are used to create and assess sustainability disclosures. There are two key findings: (1) that generative AI greenwashes sustainability disclosures, with our study participants doing little to mitigate this, and (2) that our study participants viewed AI ...
Ruth Dimes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discourses in science fiction movies: science teaching and the production of meanings in the socio-environmental perspective

open access: yesACTIO: Docência em Ciências, 2018
This paper consists of discourse analysis of science fiction movies, with emphasis on the notions of environment, disciplinarity, neutrality and salvationism of Science.
Júlio César David Ferreira   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Can Private Equity Deliver on Its Societal Ambitions? What We Know and Don't Know About Environmental, Social, and Governance Factor Integration in Private Equity

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Private equity (PE) firms increasingly integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in investment decisions and raise impact funds to address sustainability challenges. We review and integrate the growing body of literature on why, when, and how PE fund managers incorporate ESG factors into their investment strategies and ...
Tjarda Molenaar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the nature of an ordinary bug : a new perspective on non-fiction research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
During a lecture in 1999, Geert Mak, a well-known Dutch writer of non-fiction, complained that in the complex relationship between fiction and literature, there are two common misconceptions.
Zajas, Pawel
core  

Decentering Cold War Social Science: Alva Myrdal’s Social Scientific Internationalism at UNESCO, 1950–1955

open access: yes, 2021
Set up in 1946, UNESCO's Department of Social Sciences (DSS) quickly became one of the key promoters of international social science during the early Cold War era.
Wisselgren, Per,, Per Wisselgren
core   +1 more source

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