Water insecurity is human: why social science must be at the core of water security research and practice by Amber Wutich

“…However, reliance on such systems is inherently a feature of unjust, inequitable water governance. Social scientists have a valuable role to play in explaining these dynamics, addressing water system failures, and developing more equitable water solutions.…”
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A frustratingly easy way of extracting political networks from text. by Naim Bro

“…This study demonstrates the use of GPT-4 and variants, advanced language models readily accessible to many social scientists, in extracting political networks from text. …”
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Communication network analysis by Gideon de Wet

“…The emphasis is not on the effects of communication, but rather on what is taking place among system members. Lastly, social scientists and development communication researchers in particular are encouraged to use network analysis in con junction with or in support of other methodological orientations in community development research. granted lay the Panther (dated 2010 …”
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‘We have opened a can of worms’: using collaborative ethnography to advance responsible artificial intelligence innovation by Andrés Domínguez Hernández, Richard Owen

“…With the recent rapid developments in artificial intelligence (AI), social scientists and computational scientists have approached overlapping questions about ethics, responsibility, and fairness. …”
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Évolution des registres de l’action, de la ruse à la mobilisation de la notion « droit » par les habitants des bidonvilles au Maroc by Habiba Essahel

“…This angle represents an innovative approach to the subject of Moroccan slums, which is, incidentally, widely documented by social scientists and urban researchers.…”
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Social Mobility in the Balkans: Border Policing Practices Are Potentially Letting Through Mostly the Members of the “Elite Club” by Tibor Bardóczy

“…This topic is currently one of the most important ones among scholars from different fields of study, especially among social scientists. Although it has been almost eighty years since the end of the Second World War, certain regions are not peaceful even now. …”
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The Relevance of Ibn Khaldun’s Economic Thought in the Contemporary World by Siti Kholifatul Rizkiah, Abdelkader Chachi

“…Ibn Khaldun’s economic thought, in his phenomenal book Al-Muqaddimah (The Prolegomenon), has been the subject of interest for many social scientists, including some economists of our era. …”
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The Influence of the Works by Levas Vladimirovas on Researchers by Elena Macevičiūtė

“…The qualitative results collected by an open-ended questionnaire from l 8 respondents (mainly Lithuanian humanitarian and social scientists) were analysed using the historical categories of the past, present and future and the subject categories characterising the field of information and communication sciences. …”
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Participatory Budgeting and Financial Accountability in Kabale District Local Government by Perpetua, Arinaitwe

“…Content analysis supported qualitative analysis while frequencies and percentages supported, supported by Special Package for Social Scientists (SPSS V 20) aided quantitative analysis. …”
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Identification of Soil and Water Conservation Technologies Used on Different Landscape Positions in Maziba Sub-catchment by Ndemere, Julius, Mary makokha, Tenywa Moses

“…Statistical analysis of the data collected was done using special packages for social scientists (SPSS 17.0) statistical software and Microsoft Excel 2007. …”
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TIKSLIEJI MOKSLAI IR VISYBIŠKAS SOCIALINĖS TIKROVĖS SUPRATIMAS by Leo Näpinen

“…Therefore the integral understanding of the social reality in all its complexity and diversity remains the task of social scientists themselves. What is needed is the co-operation between exact and historical sciences, and not the attempt to replace one by the other. …”
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The Documentation Status Continuum and the Impact of Categories on Healthcare Stratification by Tiffany Denise Joseph

“…This has implications for various outcomes that social scientists examine amid increasing anti-immigrant sentiment in the US and beyond.…”
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Monetary Incentives and Labour Performance; A Case Study of Coffee Factories in Rukungiri District. by Edward, Muhwezi Bendera

“…The gathered data were tabulated and entered using Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS).The study found a positive relationship between monetary incentives and labour or employee performance and recommended that coffee factories should consider their specific business goals and management objectives while using performance related pay system. …”
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Green Sourcing and Environmental Sustainability in Selected Manufacturing Entities in Kampala District, Uganda by Rugasira, Jack, Moses, Agaba, mbito, Jotham, Makumbi, Rita, Kyotuheire, Jill, Asiime, Jane

“…The researcher applied Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) to test all four hypotheses. The results are presented in terms of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics in terms of correlation analysis, simple regression and multiple regression analysis models. …”
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Genetic ancestry and the colonial legacies of race in genomics: a cross-disciplinary dialogue by Ernesto Schwartz-Marin, Tayyaba Jiwani, Sarah Abel, Yulia Egorova, Amade M’charek, Diogo Meyer, Andrés Moreno Estrada, Katharina Schramm, Peter Wade, Michel Naslavsky, Michel Naslavsky

“…In fact, contemporary genomics initiatives have often ended up reinforcing ethnocentric and nativist conceptions of difference, drawing intense criticism from activists and critical social scientists. This roundtable brings leading population geneticists grappling with the question of genetic identity and ancestry, especially in the global South, together with some of the most prominent scholars of race in genomics. …”
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Green Manufacturing and Environmental Sustainability in Selected Manufacturing Entities in Kampala District, Uganda by Rugasira, Jack, Moses, Agaba, Byarugaba Mbiito, Jotham, Makumbi, Rita, Kyotuheire, Jill, Asiimwe, Jane

“…The researcher applied Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) to test all four hypotheses. The results are presented in terms of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics in terms of correlation analysis, simple regression and multiple regression analysis models. …”
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Contribution des organisations non gouvernementales écologistes à l’aménagement des forêts sacrées en Côte d’Ivoire : l’expérience de la Croix Verte by Jonas Ibo

“…Because of its innovative and prospective character, the Green Cross experiment call out the scientific community, notably the social scientists. This study aims at analysing the Côte d’Ivoire Green Cross experience. …”
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Teaching Academic English Corpus Trough Word-formation by Irina B. Korotkina

“…The paper presents a well-designed and approbated course of academic vocabulary for social scientists, analyses relationships between linguistic studies and teaching academic vocabulary, and discusses the ways of increasing the effectiveness and clarity of teaching by more systematic study of classical elements, enhancing students’ analytical skills through innovative methodology and using the advantages of similarities between Russian and Latin word-formation. …”
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TIKSLIEJI MOKSLAI IR VISYBIŠKAS SOCIALINĖS TIKROVĖS SUPRATIMAS by Leo Näpinen

“…Therefore the integral understanding of the social reality in all its complexity and diversity remains the task of social scientists themselves. What is needed is the co-operation between exact and historical sciences, and not the attempt to replace one by the other. …”
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Migration humaine et diffusion de variétés de riz by Mathieu Fribault

“…While Portères' ethnobotanical work was not mobilized in later studies, we wish to prove the pertinence of rehabilitating it in order to question the history of the Baga people, as it is currently understood by social scientists. The Baga ethnic group seems to have emerged from a double process, both from an ancient settlement whose modalities are opposed to the Portères hypothesis, and from a complex process of accretion of migrants seeking refuge, the result of the centuries of violence that characterize the sub-region, sometimes with marronage. …”
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