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Exploring methodological innovation in the social sciences: the body in digital environments and the arts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this paper we examine methodological innovation in the social sciences through a focus on researching the body in digital environments. There are two strands to our argument as to why this is a useful site to explore methodological innovation in the ...
Jewitt, C, Price, S, Xambo, A
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Clinical Correlates of Anxiety and Depression After Diagnosis of a Pediatric Brain Tumor

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The prevalence and clinical correlates of symptoms of anxiety and depression in pediatric patients with brain tumors are not well described. We aimed to identify clinical characteristics that are correlated with elevated symptoms of anxiety and depression following initial diagnosis.
Bryony J. Lucas   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complexity Theory: An Overview with Potential Applications for the Social Sciences

open access: yesSystems, 2019
Systems theory has been challenged in the recent literature due to its perceived disconnection from today’s research and practice demands. Moving away from the reductionist frameworks and the complicated domain predominated by known unknowns and ...
John R. Turner, Rose M. Baker
doaj   +1 more source

Communicating the social sciences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This chapter reviews the sparse and somewhat scattered research literature that has specifically addressed the public communication of the social sciences (PCSS).
Cassidy, A
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Preoperative Cytopenia in Patients Affected by High‐Risk Neuroblastoma: Just a Matter of Platelets?

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims In patients affected by high‐risk neuroblastoma (HR‐NB), complete macroscopic resection (CMR) is associated with better outcomes. These patients are often cytopenic due to intensive induction regimens. The aim of the present study is to assess the impact of preoperative cytopenia on surgical outcome in patients with HR‐NB ...
Giorgio Persano   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Science, for What? Or: Science with Conscience - The Invisible College of Dissenting Nuclear Scientists

open access: yesAcademicus 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
doaj   +1 more source

Generalized Markovian Quantity Distribution Systems: Social Science Applications [PDF]

open access: yesSociological Science, 2020
We propose a model of Markovian quantity flows on connected networks that relaxes several properties of the standard compartmental Markov process. The motivation of our generalization are social science applications of the standard model that do not comport with its steady state predictions.
Friedkin, Noah, Proskurnikov, Anton
openaire   +5 more sources

"Triples" for information research skills : a multi-disciplinary approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper outlines a new approach to teaching reference/research skills. It was developed for PhD students but has been used successfully for teaching reference and search skills to students on a Masters in Library and Information Studies.
Poulter, Alan
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Relation of Adverse Childhood Experiences to Clinical and Patient‐Reported Outcomes for Adults With Sickle Cell Disease: A Registry Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are stressful or traumatic events prior to age 18 that are known to have a lasting impact on individuals’ health and well‐being. There is a gap in understanding the relationship between ACEs and Other Life Stressors and health status for adults with sickle cell disease (SCD).
Marsha Treadwell   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Sociological Study of the Process of Professional Identity Formation in Doctoral Students of Social Sciences in Iran [PDF]

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2019
Professional identity refers to a process that answers the question "who am I" during One has been studying for years at university. The PhD is the latest stage in the development of this kind of identity that has a great bearing on the career path of ...
G. Jafari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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