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Culture, Utility or Social Systems?:Explaining the Cross-National Ties of Emigrants from Borsa, Romania [PDF]

, 2009
Emigrants from Borşa, Romania, display two quite distinct patterns of ties with their community of origin: migration to Italy is discernibly transnational, with a strong reliance on migrant networks; while migration to the UK is more individualistic ...
Oana Ciobanu, Christina Boswell, Boswell, Christina, Ciobanu, Oana   +3 more
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Stability amidst student protests? Evaluating the strength of racially diverse social systems through Bronfenbrenner’s theoretical lens

Perspectives in Education
The complexity of race-related student protests is a challenge facing universities worldwide. Race-related protests disrupted a university campus in central South Africa in February 2016.
WP Wahl, Kingsley Chinaza Nwosu
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Provider and Parent Perspectives on Prioritizing the “Asking and Monitoring” Pediatric Cancer Psychosocial Standards of Care

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Standards for Psychosocial Care for Children with Cancer and Their Families (“Standards”) are evidence‐based guidelines for psychosocial care in pediatric oncology. Care related to the three “Asking and Monitoring” Standards—Assessment of Psychosocial Needs, Assessment of Financial Needs, and Monitoring Neurocognitive Problems ...
Julia B. Tager, Natalie Koskela‐Staples, Emily M. Pariseau, Michele Scialla, Kimberly Buff, Lori Wiener, Victoria Sardi Brown, Anne E. Kazak, Kimberly S. Canter   +8 more
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Chain Communication Systems [PDF]

, 2014
This article elaborates on large-scale chain communication between autonomous organisations and professionals focused on solving social problems. We introduce a dynamic chain concept combined with a special chain information strategy that may help us to ...
Software Systems, Grijpink, Jan, Grijpink, J.H.A.M., Sub Algemeen Software Systems   +3 more
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Female representation across mythologies

Condensed Matter Physics
Social groups have been studied throughout history to understand how different configurations impact those within them. Along with this came the interest in investigating social groups of both fictional and mythological works. Over the last decade these
M. Janickyj, P. MacCarron, Y. Yose, R. Kenna   +3 more
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Global Efforts to Reduce Paediatric Cancer Care Disparities in Radiotherapy: A Decade Change

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background We present an update on the status, needs and challenges faced by paediatric imaging and radiotherapy (RT) programmes globally after a previous survey conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 10 years prior. Methods We developed and distributed a 121‐question survey to radiation oncologists, medical physicists and ...
Raymond B. Mailhot Vega, Daniel J. Indelicato, Jeanette Parkes, Natia Esiashvili, Josué Hernández Benítez, Miriam Mikhail‐Lette, Olivera Cirajc Bjelac, Daniel Berger, Eva Ciurana, Yavuz Anacak, Lisbeth Cordero‐Mendez   +10 more
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Social learning for resilience in social–ecological systems [PDF]

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2017
Fostering of social learning is generally considered an important governance instrument to build resilience in social-ecological systems. Empirical studies addressing the contribution of social learning to resilience are scarce however, and do not provide direct evidence but infer this contribution from the impacts of social learning on system ...
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Neuropsychological and Educational Outcomes in Shwachman–Diamond Syndrome—A Report From the North American Shwachman–Diamond Syndrome Registry

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Shwachman–Diamond syndrome (SDS) is a rare autosomal recessive ribosomopathy characterized by bone marrow failure and multisystem involvement, with emerging evidence of associated neurocognitive impairment. Methods We conducted a retrospective study of 240 individuals with biallelic Shwachman–Bodian–Diamond syndrome (SBDS) mutations
Jane Koo, Melissa Gerstle, Leah Cheng, Richard Cooper, Katherine Coyne, Claire Dusa, Naomi E. Joffe, Diana Schwarz, Sarah Steltz, Akiko Shimamura, Kasiani C. Myers, Thea Quinton   +11 more
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Aquatorialities of the Arctic Region – A Systems Theoretical Analysis of Risks

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2013
In order to describe the Arctic system I propose using a concept functionally equivalent to territoriality, namely aquatoriality. Whether communicating about territoriality or aquatoriality, concepts and delimitations are both contingent to forms of ...
Gorm Harste
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Thinking Complexity with Harrison White: Towards Social Emergence via Indexical Language

Sociologica
Harrison C. White, a founding giant of the relational turn in Sociology, has left us a monumental model of social emergence based on the interplay of three primitives (identity, control, switching) and two principles (self-similarity, dispersion) of ...
Jorge Fontdevila
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