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On the Utilization of Social Animals as a Model for Social Robotics [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 Social robotics is a thriving field in building artificial agents. The possibility to construct agents that can engage in meaningful social interaction with humans presents new challenges for engineers. In general, social robotics has been inspired primarily by psychologists with the aim of building human-like robots.
Miklósi, Ádám, Gácsi, Márta
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A consumer and social welfare model based on the writings of Shibani (750-805 AD, 131-189 AH) [PDF]
PSL Quarterly Review, 2016 The work analyses the writings of Shibani, considering their relevance for contemporary Islamic economics. The novelty of Shibani’s earnings model is its integration of Zakat and other social giving in the social welfare function, which makes the ...
Hassan B. Ghassan
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The legitimacy of increasing marginal utility in social services: The case of university examinations [PDF]
Ekonomski Anali, 2010 The concept of utility became rightfully recognized in economic theory with the introduction of decreasing marginal utility. However a question that arises is: does an increasing consumption of goods always and without exception lead to diminishing ...
Filipić Petar
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Gestion et management public, 2017 Cette recherche vise à mettre en évidence les processus qui conduisent les acteurs de l’ESS à s’engager dans l’évaluation de l’utilité sociale (ÉUS) mais aussi à en présenter les principaux enjeux qu’ils soient affichés ou non dans le cadre d’une gouvernance territoriale.
Christelle Perrin, Manel Benzerafa
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Assessment of Transparency and Openness of a Public Utility Company (Institution, Organization) as a Guarantee of Effective Use of Local Finance and Territorial Development [PDF]
Problemi Ekonomiki, 2020 Features and modern operating conditions of utility companies (institutions, organizations), in particular, the processes of democratization, decentralization, openness of society,necessitate improving the system of indicators that define requirements ...
Nechayeva Iryna A.
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Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2015 В настоящее время, при оценке эффективности аптечных учреждений не учитывается ее социальный результат. Анализ деятельности аптек и их принадлежность к системе здравоохранения позволили считать необходимым предложение методики определения социальной ...
Michael Evgenevich Volchanskiy +3 more
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Trace Me If You Can: An Unlinkability Approach for Privacy-Preserving in Social Networks
IEEE Access, 2021 Privacy in social networks has been a vast active area of research due to the enormous increase in privacy concerns with social networking services. Social networks contain sensitive information of individuals, which could be leaked due to insecure data ...
Kah Meng Chong, Amizah Malip
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Fairness requires deliberation: The primacy of economic over social considerations
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 While both economic and social considerations of fairness and equity play an important role in financial decision-making, it is not clear which of these two motives is more primal and immediate and which one is secondary and slow.
Guy eHochman +3 more
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Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2022 This study arrives at a representation for ‘utility from decision making’ that is robust to modeling of any of ‘social interactions’, ‘economic activities’, or with social interactions interwoven with economic activities, modeling of ‘socioeconomic ...
Oghenovo A. Obrimah
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iScience, 2023 Summary: This study answers an important policy question related to energy efficiency transition tendencies and the role that control of corruption and regulatory quality can play, using the Stochastic Frontier and Panel Markov-Switching techniques with ...
Charity Dzifa Akorli, Philip Kofi Adom
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