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Mapping Monte Carlo to Langevin dynamics: A Fokker-Planck approach

open access: yes, 2006
We propose a general method of using the Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) to link the Monte-Carlo (MC) and the Langevin micromagnetic schemes. We derive the drift and disusion FPE terms corresponding to the MC method and show that it is analytically ...
D. P. Landau   +9 more
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From knowledge as domination to knowledge as governmentality: a theoretical rearticulation of power in late-modern knowledge regimes

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
The article addresses a central problem in contemporary sociology: the inadequacy of classical approaches to power in explaining how expert knowledge currently organizes forms of domination in societies marked by the expansion of expertocracy, neoliberal
Marcos Parada-Ulloa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Subject: Psychology and Sociology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Compiled by Susan LaCette.PsychologyandSociology.pdf: 3180 downloads, before Oct.
LaCette, Susan
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Methodological problems in Serbian sociology: Analysis of the Sociološki pregled / Sociological Review [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki Pregled, 2018
The importance of consideration of some methodological issues in a science is one of the indicators of the degree to which it is developed. The assumption of this paper, which is derived from everyday contact with sociological literature, is that ...
Stojšin Snežana S., Vidicki Vladan D.
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Measuring inequality in a cross-tabulation with ordered categories: from the Gini coefficient to the Tog coefficient [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This paper introduces the Tog coefficient, which can be used to measure the level of inequality in a cross-tabulation of two ordinal-level variables. The Gini coefficient is a standard measure of income inequality which has been adapted by other authors ...
Lampard, Richard
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Cognitive Processing of Verbal Quantifiers in the Context of Affirmative and Negative Sentences: a Croatian Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Studies from English and German have found differences in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences. However, little attention has been given to quantifiers that form negations.
Bogunović, Irena, Ćoso, Bojana
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The contribution of the sociology of quantification to a discussion of objectivity in economics

open access: yesÉconomie des conventions, 2012
In this chapter I analyse objectivity in economics from the perspective of the sociology of quantification as the result of 'investments in forms' supporting public action and the public discussion concerning collective ends and means to be pursued. Quantification is guaranteed by 'conventions of quantification' that are the outcome of controversies ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Social Informatics in Slovenia: Between Traditional Understanding and Unrealised Opportunities [PDF]

open access: yesDružboslovne Razprave
Social Informatics was established in 1984 as the first academic programme in the world with this title. Parallel to this, Social Informatics as a specific scientific activity at the intersection of sociology, computer science, and social science ...
Gregor Petrič
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Potential infinity, abstraction principles and arithmetic (Leniewski Style) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper starts with an explanation of how the logicist research program can be approached within the framework of Leśniewski’s systems. One nice feature of the system is that Hume’s Principle is derivable in it from an explicit definition of natural ...
Urbaniak, Rafal
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Use of axial tomography to follow temporal changes of benthic communities in an unstable sedimentary environment (Baie des Ha! Ha!, Saguenay Fjord) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In the upper layer of the sediment column, organic matter recycling is greatly influenced by bioturbation. However, there are many physical changes in the nature of the sediment that may disturb benthic communities and create a biogeochemical imbalance ...
Aller   +70 more
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