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BJGP OpenBackground: Debate surrounding the organisation and sustainability of primary care in England highlights the desirability of a more integrated approach to patient care across all settings.
Catherine Saunders +3 more
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Academicus International Scientific Journal, 2019 The main contention of this essay is that sciences can be seen as belonging to two broad categories: a) demonstrative; b) interpretative. Demonstrative, or «tough», sciences are «natural» sciences; interpretative sciences are philosophy, history, all the
Franco Ferrarotti
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Still minding the gap? Reflecting on transitions between concepts of information in varied domains [PDF]
, 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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What have the social sciences ever done for equity in health policy and health systems?
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018 Background The social sciences can be defined as the scientific study of human society and social relationships. Main text A number of underpinning disciplines within the social sciences, notably sociology, social psychology and anthropology, as well as ...
Trisha Greenhalgh
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Inverse Generative Social Science: Backward to the Future
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2023 The agent-based model is the principal scientific instrument of generative social science. Typically, we design completed agents-fully endowed with rules and parameters-to grow macroscopic target patterns from the bottom up. Inverse generative science (iGSS) stands this approach on its head: Rather than handcrafting completed agents to grow a target ...
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Mechanistic models in computational social science
Frontiers in Physics, 2015 Quantitative social science is not only about regression analysis or, in general, data inference. Computer simulations of social mechanisms have an over 60 years long history. They have been used for many different purposes—to test scenarios, to test the
Petter eHolme, Fredrik eLiljeros
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La perspective d’une science sociale Sud/Sud
SociologiesThis critical text on the discourse of critical sociology of the social sciences in the societies of the Maghreb-Mashrek, deconstructs the myth of the decline of the human sciences in Arab societies and attempts to explain this constantly unhappy ...
Kamel Chachoua
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Explanation and Understanding Revisited [PDF]
, 2017 "Explanation and Understanding" (1971) by Georg Henrik von Wright is a modern classic in analytic hermeneutics, and in the philosophy of the social sciences and humanities in general.
Raatikainen, Panu
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen +23 more
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Language and argumentation in the controversy economic [PDF]
, 2010 This article offers an approach to the general structure of the controversy in economy. In our case we adopted a perspective to study a particular aspect of the rhetoric that comes from the context of a particular controversy: the controversy on the ...
Estrada, Fernando
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