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Brain matters…in social sciences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Here we offer a general introduction to cognitive neuroscience and provide examples relevant to psychology, healthcare and bioethics, law and criminology, information studies, of how brain studies have influenced, are influencing or show the potential to
Christopher D. Chambers   +4 more
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Still minding the gap? Reflecting on transitions between concepts of information in varied domains [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This conceptual paper, a contribution to the tenth anniversary special issue of information, gives a cross-disciplinary review of general and unified theories of information.
Bawden, D., Robinson, L.
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The general social survey-national death index: an innovative new dataset for the social sciences

open access: yesBMC Research Notes, 2011
Background Social epidemiology seeks in part to understand how social factors--ideas, beliefs, attitudes, actions, and social connections--influence health.
Smith Tom W   +4 more
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Energy research and social sciences: thinking outside the box [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
This paper aims at explaining the universality and broadness of the research in energy studies. Specifically, it wants to show that the energy research is not a solely engineering or natural sciences field and how it can be done in social sciences.
Strielkowski Wadim
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Multilevel compression of random walks on networks reveals hierarchical organization in large integrated systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
To comprehend the hierarchical organization of large integrated systems, we introduce the hierarchical map equation, which reveals multilevel structures in networks.
Bergstrom, C. T., Rosvall, M.
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Can Generative AI improve social science?

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023
Generative AI that can produce realistic text, images, and other human-like outputs is currently transforming many different industries. Yet it is not yet known how such tools might influence social science research. I argue Generative AI has the potential to improve survey research, online experiments, automated content analyses, agent-based models ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Self-esteem, general and sexual self-concepts in blind people [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: People with visual disability have lower self-esteem and social skills than sighted people. This study was designed to describe self-esteem and general and sexual self-concepts in blind people.
Azarbayejani, A.   +4 more
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Topics related to social sciences by authors from Slovenia in agriculture-and-life-sciences database CAB Abstracts

open access: yesActa Agriculturae Slovenica, 2011
Documents related to social sciences are processed/indexed by several field-specific (e.g. Sociological Abstracts) and general (Web of Science, Scopus) bibliographic databases.
Tomaž BARTOL, Marjan HOČEVAR
doaj   +1 more source

La sociologie française est-elle pragmatist compatible ?

open access: yesTracés, 2008
This article tries to answer a question: are social sciences in France pragmatist compatible? This article explores the uses and appropriations of pragmatism in French social sciences, focusing on two major intellectual examples in the past twenty years:
Romain Pudal
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Transdisciplinarity: two preliminary issues

open access: yesThe Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2013
Any discussion about transdisciplinarity presupposes some sort of recognition of the scientific disciplines and some agreement on how they are or should be grouped or classified.
Renato Coletto
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