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Expanding Research on Contextual Factors in Autism Research: What Took Us So Long?

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although autism is a childhood‐onset neurodevelopmental disorder, its features change across the life course due to a combination of individual and contextual influences. However, the influence of contextual factors on development during childhood and beyond is less frequently studied than individual factors such as genetic variants that ...
Marsha Mailick, Teresa Bennett, Leann Smith DaWalt, Maureen S. Durkin, Gordon Forbes, Patricia Howlin, Catherine Lord, Anat Zaidman‐Zait, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Vanessa Bal, Somer Bishop, Chung‐Hsin Chiang, Adriana DiMartino, Christine M. Freitag, Stelios Georgiades, Matthew Hollocks, Meng‐Chuan Lai, Matthew J. Maenner, Patrick S. Powell, Julie Lounds Taylor, Alycia Halladay   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Non-linear Dynamics of Sociological Reflections [PDF]

International Sociology, 12, (1997), 25-45, 2010
Actors are embedded in networks of communication: the relations of the actors can be represented as the rows of a matrix, while the column vectors represent their communications. The two systems are structurally coupled in the co-variation: each action can be considered as a communication with reference to the network.
arxiv  

Agentenbasierte Modellierung und Simulation

TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 2017
Der Beitrag führt in die Thematik ein und gibt einen Überblick über die theoretischen und methodischen Grundlagen der agentenbasierten Modellierung und Simulation (ABMS). Er stellt die Potenziale der neuen Methode dar und begründet, warum TA und ABMS von
Johannes Weyer, Michael Roos
doaj   +1 more source

Tolstoy's Mathematics in "War and Peace" [PDF]

arXiv, 2001
The nineteenth century Russian author Leo Tolstoy based his egalitarian views on sociology and history on mathematical and probabilistic views, and he also proposed a mathematical theory of waging war.
arxiv  

Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy, Colette Murray, Kylie Smith, Carmel Ward   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How can a cooperative‐based organization of indigenous fisheries foster the resilience to global changes? Lessons learned by coastal communities in eastern Québec

Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 32, Issue 6, Page 546-559, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Halieutic resources and small‐scale fisheries are globally under stress due to global changes. This phenomenon has very strong impacts on the socioeconomic situation of vast coastal areas worldwide and of the communities living there, whose economies rely on the ocean.
Marco Alberio, Marina Soubirou
wiley   +1 more source

Structural Cohesion: Visualization and Heuristics for Fast Computation [PDF]

Journal of Social Structure, 2015
Jordi Torrents, Fabrizio Ferraro
doaj   +1 more source

ON THE VALIDITY OF ONE SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

Pravo, 2019
The content of this paper includes an analysis of basic principles and validity of the Marxist sociological theory. In the Introduction, there is explained a problem of acquiring knowledge as well as the possibilities of establishing theories in social ...
Aleksandar Stevanović , Borislav Grozdić   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Theory of Scientific Practice [PDF]

arXiv, 2012
This paper avers that science is not demarcated from other disciplines by a specific unique methodology, but by its specific scientific rationality and rational grounds. In this context, the notion and structure of scientific reason are explicated. Four rational grounds of science are identified: the epistemological.
arxiv  

Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
wiley   +1 more source