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Impact of vertical integration on patients’ use of hospital services in England: an analysis of activity data

open access: yesBJGP Open
Background: 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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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

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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Searching for a "pedagogy of hope": teacher education and the social sciences

open access: yesPerspectives in Education, 2017
I analyse module outlines within a particular school of social sciences located in a faculty of education, and uncover the evolving systems of teaching social sciences in a teacher education curriculum.
Michael Samuel
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Mechanistic models in computational social science

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Inverse Generative Social Science: Backward to the Future

open access: yesJournal 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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Patterns of internationalization and criteria for research assessment in the social sciences and humanities

open access: yesScientometrics, 2016
This article investigates the developments during the last decades in the use of languages, publication types and publication channels in the social sciences and humanities (SSH).
G. Sivertsen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A cultural ecosystem service perspective on the interactions between humans and soils in gardens

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2021
Gardens are culturally shaped environments in which natural processes can be experienced. Thus, they offer insights into the relation people have with these processes and the biophysical domain.
Sandra Teuber
doaj   +1 more source

Psychosocial Outcomes in Patients With Endocrine Tumor Syndromes: A Systematic Review

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction The combination of disease manifestations, the familial burden, and varying penetrance of endocrine tumor syndromes (ETSs) is unique. This review aimed to portray and summarize available data on psychosocial outcomes in patients with ETSs and explore gaps and opportunities for future research and care.
Daniël Zwerus   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

La perspective d’une science sociale Sud/Sud

open access: yesSociologies
This 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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