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Addressing Risk Challenges in a Changing Financial Environment:the Need for Greater Accountability in Financial Regulation and Risk Management [PDF]
, 2011 The need for continuous monitoring and regulation is particularly attributed to, and justified by, the inevitable presence of risks and uncertainty – both in terms of certain externalities and indeterminacies which are capable of being reasonably ...
Ojo, Mariane.B.
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Ambivalence in digital health: co-designing an mHealth platform for HIV care [PDF]
, 2018 In reaction to polarised views on the benefits or drawbacks of digital health, the notion of ‘ambivalence’ has recently been proposed as a means to grasp the nuances and complexities at play when digital technologies are embedded within practices of care.
Darking, Mary +2 more
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Prepare your indicators: Economics imperialism on the shores of law and development [PDF]
, 2011 This article explores the influence of economics on the demand for, and deployment of, indicators in the context of the World Bank's investment climate campaign.
Amanda Perry-Kessaris +34 more
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Statistics and political violence: Reflections on the Social Conflict in 2009 in Guadeloupe
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2014 In early 2009, Guadeloupe experienced a 44-day strike against the high cost of living and against the illegitimate profits some actors realise in the Island’s economy.
Samuel Boris
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Feminists really do count : the complexity of feminist methodologies [PDF]
, 2010 We are delighted to be presenting this special issue on the topic of feminism and quantitative methods. We believe that such an issue is exceptionally timely.
Christina Hughes +5 more
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Statistics and social critique
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2014 This paper focuses on the history of the uses of statistics as a tool for socialcritique. Whereas nowadays they are very often conceived as being in the hands of the powerful, there are many historical cases when they were, on the contrary, used to ...
Alain Desrosières
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Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2019 A diversity of modes of quantification in contemporary societies have now been explored, following the path of scholars who inspired this field, such as Alain Desrosières.
David Demortain
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Los juegos políticos del cálculo
Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2019 A diversity of modes of quantification in contemporary societies have now been explored, following the path of scholars who inspired this field, such as Alain Desrosières.
David Demortain
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Observation as a method within the context of the debate about quantitative and qualitative approach [PDF]
Sociologija, 2015 Quantitative and qualitative orientations, as dominant in contemporary methodology of social sciences, are based on different forms, parts and types, data. They have their own epistemological specificity. They disintegrate classical sociological
Ilić Vladimir
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How to Evaluate Theory-Based Hypotheses in Meta-Analysis Using an AIC-Type Criterion
Entropy, 2022 Meta-analysis techniques allow researchers to aggregate effect sizes—like standardized mean difference(s), correlation(s), or odds ratio(s)—of different studies. This leads to overall effect-size estimates and their confidence intervals.
Rebecca M. Kuiper
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