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Evolution of ungulate mating systems: Integrating social and environmental factors

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Ungulates exhibit diverse mating systems that range from monogamous pair territories to highly polygynous leks. We review mating systems and behaviors across ungulates and offer a new approach synthesizing how interacting factors may shape those mating ...
R. Terry Bowyer, Dale R. McCullough, Janet L. Rachlow, Simone Ciuti, Jericho C. Whiting   +4 more
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UNDERSTANDING THE RULE OF LAW AS A SOCIAL STATE IN THE DOMESTIC THEORY OF LAW

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The paper presents the author's vision of the theory of the social state as a model of an effective legal state. An effective state is considered as a societal system in which the process of changing relations and processes at the level of society is ...
I. Galstyan, R. Melekaev
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An agenda for fixing the social security/welfare benefits system [PDF]

, 2018
Social security/welfare benefits are a fundamental and critical element in tackling economic disadvantage but as Lister (2016) has noted, the current UK system is not preventing poverty, relieves it inadequately and the growing reliance on food banks ...
Batty, Sarah, Orton, Michael
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The role of control system in increasing corporate social performance: The use of levers of control [PDF]

, 2008
One important instrument to be used in the control system design is strategic behaviors that can lead to the expected organization performance.Referring to the extended definition of strategic behavior using stakeholder-based strategic behavior ...
Abdul Rahman, Azhar, Fauzi, Hasan
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Niklas Luhmann’s system theory: A critical analysis

RUDN journal of Sociology, 2019
This article considers the nature of the theoretical legacy - the system theory - of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. The author focuses on three topics: first, he briefly describes Luhmann’s ideas in the context of the contemporary sociological ...
J Šubrt
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Socially-Sensitive Systems Design: Exploring Social Potential [PDF]

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 2017
In human society, individuals have long voluntarily organized themselves in groups, which embody, provide and/or facilitate a range of different social concepts, such as governance, justice, or mutual aid. These social groups vary in form, size, and permanence, but in different ways provide benefits to their members.
Bellman, Kirstie, Botev, Jean, Hildmann, Hanno, Lewis, Peter R., Marsh, Stephen, Pitt, Jeremy, Scholtes, Ingo, Tomforde, Sven   +7 more
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Stripped of illusions? Exploring system justification processes in Capitalist and post-Communist societies [PDF]

, 2013
Sociologists and political scientists have often observed that citizens of Central and Eastern Europe express high levels of disillusionment with their social, economic and political systems, in comparison with citizens of Western capitalist societies ...
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Elaborating Naturalized Critical Realism: Response to Ruth Groff, Dave Elder-Vass, Daniel Little and Petri Ylikoski

Journal of Social Ontology, 2015
This paper is a reply to the discussions of Ruth Groff, Dave Elder-Vass, Daniel Little, and Petri Ylikoski of Tuukka Kaidesoja (2013): Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology (London: Routledge).
Kaidesoja Tuukka
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A system of mobile agents to model social networks

, 2006
We propose a model of mobile agents to construct social networks, based on a system of moving particles by keeping track of the collisions during their permanence in the system.
Hans J. Herrmann, J. J. Potterat, Marta C. González, Pedro G. Lind   +3 more
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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
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