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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 34 Number 3, Spring 1992 [PDF]
, 1992 12 - EAST L.A. STORY Jesuit-run Dolores Mission Alternative School is a last chance for East L.A.\u27s troubled teen-agers, many of whom are members of violent Latino gangs.
Santa Clara University
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Regional Shopping Objectives in British Grocery Retail Transactions Using Segmented Topic Models
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding the customer behaviours behind transactional data has high commercial value in the grocery retail industry. Customers generate millions of transactions every day, choosing and buying products to satisfy specific shopping needs.
Mariflor Vega Carrasco +4 more
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EncyclopediaMedical sociology is an applied research subfield within the field of sociology that was developed in the 1800s. It uses theories and research to examine the social, cultural, and political factors associated with health, illness, and healthcare and to ...
Elizabeth Jones, Shelia Malone
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SOCIAL PRACTICES OF NUTRITION AND PUBLIC HEALTH (ST. PETERSBURG AND THE LENINGRAD REGION)
Дискурс, 2018 The general definitions of health and social functions of nutrition, the structure of nutrition of residents of St. Petersburg and Leningrad (based on Rosstat and Petrostat statistics), dietary habits, social differences in diet, attitude to food are ...
Y. V. Veselov +2 more
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A Critical Analysis of the Medical Model As Used in the Study of Pregnancy and Childbirth [PDF]
One key concept in medical sociology/anthropology for the analysis of approaches to health and illness is the medical model. However, this medical model is not only applied at the analytical level, i.e.
Edwin van Teijlingen
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The Proceeding of The 1st International Conference on Sociology Education [PDF]
, 2015 UPI International Conference on Sociology Education (UPI ICSE) 2015 is the first conference held by Sociology Education Study Program, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, on October 12, 2015.
Faculty of Social Sciences Education, UPI +1 more
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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 +3 more
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND HEALTH PROMOTION: A CANADA FIT FOR CHILDREN?
International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2011 The 2011 Canadian election campaign demonstrates once again that while the health care debate is always a highly contested political issue, little of the discussion originates from, or is concerned with, citizens under 18 years of age.
Richard Mitchell
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Older and wiser? Men’s and women’s accounts of drinking in early mid-life [PDF]
, 2011 Most qualitative research on alcohol focuses on younger rather than older adults. To explore older people’s relationship with alcohol, we conducted eight focus groups with 36 men and women aged 35 to 50 years in Scotland, UK.
Carstairs V. +5 more
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