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Navigating Tourism Innovations in the Post-COVID-19 Era: A Case Study of Lithuania

Quaestiones Geographicae
The goal of this article is to uncover the innovative changes that have emerged in Tourist Information Centres (TICs) in Lithuania as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pociūtė-Sereikienė Gintarė, Liutikas Darius, Baranauskienė Viktorija   +2 more
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Advanced Smartphone-Based Sensing with Open-Source Task Automation

Sensors, 2018
Smartphone-based sensing is becoming a convenient way to collect data in science, especially in environmental research. Recent studies that use smartphone sensing methods focus predominantly on single sensors that provide quantitative measurements ...
Maximilian Ueberham, Florian Schmidt, Uwe Schlink   +2 more
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The ghost of Patrick Geddes:civics as applied sociology [PDF]

, 2005
In 1904 and 1905 Patrick Geddes (1905, 1906) read his famed, but today little-read, two-part paper, 'Civics: as Applied Sociology', to the first meetings of the British Sociological Society. Geddes is often thought of as a 'pioneer of sociology' (Mairet,
Law, Alex
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Alternative job search strategies in remote rural and peri-urban labour markets: the role of social networks [PDF]

, 2005
This paper examines the importance of informal methods (especially social networking) to the job search strategies used by unemployed people. It compares three areas: a small rural town; a larger, more sparsely populated, remote rural area; and a ...
Adams J., Anxo D., Beggs J.J., Boheim R., Brown D., Brown D.W., Chapple K., Geddes M., Granovetter M., Granovetter M., Hales J., Halfacree K.H., Hasluck C., Hofferth S.L., Hogarth T., Levesque M., Ooka E., Reimer B., Sanderson I., System Three, Thomas J.   +20 more
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Economic Measurements and Quality of Life in Mexico [PDF]

, 2004
Using the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), the article seeks to evaluate the quality of life in modern Mexico. The GPI employs the same indicators used to arrive at per capita GDP, but adds positive and negative monetary and non-monetary actors that ...
Danopoulos, Constantine P.
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Architects and designers meet sociologists to design urban space : reflection on the (im)possible crossing of disciplinary borders [PDF]

, 2018
Space as an academic concept occupies a place in various disciplines and professions. In each case it tends to be named, studied, understood and created in the appropriate conceptual apparatus, using the relevant methodology for the acquisition and ...
Nóżka, Marcjanna, Smagacz-Poziemska, Marta   +1 more
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Studentification, youthification, and gentrification, all at once? New-builds, newcomers, and near-campus change in a post-industrial city

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series
Higher education growth changes the neighbourhoods of university cities in multiple ways. The most evidenced way is studentification, although researchers also report youthification and gentrification.
Jakub Zasina, Wiktoria Jakubiak
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Queer Farmers: Sexuality and the Transition to Sustainable Agriculture [PDF]

, 2016
Intimate relationships are foundational to farm viability. Such relationships affect how farmers share tasks, earn income, and access land, yet the role of sexuality and heteronormativity in agriculture remains understudied.
Leslie, Isaac
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Rural children are more likely to live in cohabiting-couple households [PDF]

, 2009
As cohabiting increases nationwide, new data show that the growing rate of children in these households is most pronounced in rural areas. This brief analyzes recent U.S.
Lyons, Heidi, Manning, Wendy, O\u27Hare, William P., Porter, Meredith   +3 more
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Atlasul sociologic al schimbării sociale din România postcomunistă. Studii preliminare

Sociologie Românească, 2000
The analysis is focused on the dramatically changes among the Romanian active (labor force) population during the last ten years of the Twentieth century.
Dorel Abraham
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