The Potentials and Limitations of Agent-Based Models for Urban Digital Twins: Insights From a Surveillance and Behavioral Nudging Simulation by Sarah Shtaierman, Catarina Fontes, Christoph Lütge

“…Building on Epstein’s threshold-based model of civil violence, the proposed simulation is informed by surveillance theories and contemplates methods for crowd monitoring and social control. …”
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Improving quality and safety in nursing homes and home care: the study protocol of a mixed-methods research design to implement a leadership intervention by Eline Ree, Terese Johannessen, Siri Wiig, Torunn Strømme, Ingunn Aase, Roland Bal, Karina Aase, Marianne Storm, Berit Ullebust, Elisabeth Holen-Rabbersvik, Line Hurup Thomsen, Anne Torhild Sandvik Pedersen, Hester van de Bovenkamp

“…Moreover, the study will build new theory on leadership interventions and the role of contextual factors in nursing homes and home care.…”
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Asygnosis and asygnotic networks by Edward M. Roche, Michael J. Blaine

“…They challenge traditional assumptions about rationality, causality, and the use of organizational structures as control mechanisms which form the basis of most social, economic and political theories. After developing the concept in detail of asyngnosis and asyngnotic networks, we apply it to current issues including unpredictable events that takes place without direct control such as the rise of spontaneous terrorism, and other social and political phenomenon such as the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street. …”
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Internal and external influences on role stereotype adherence and gender dynamics on engineering design teams by Anastasia M. Schauer, Jessie Liu, Christopher Saldaña, Katherine Fu

“…Findings can be used to inform curriculum development in hands-on design project courses and management of design groups in industry.…”
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Female Offenders at the Confluence of Medical and Penal Discourses: Towards a Gender-Specific Criminology (1860s-1920s) by Alice Bonzom

“…This polyphonic discourse incorporated many disciplines such as biology, psychiatry, anthropology and social science. This convergence of intellectual fields could be seen as gender-based. …”
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Using a digital health intervention “INTERCEPT” to improve secondary prevention in coronary heart disease (CHD) patients: protocol for a mixed methods non-randomised feasibility st... by Catriona Jennings, Irene Gibson, Marissa Corcoran, John William McEvoy, Lis Neubeck, Lisa Hynes, Faisal Sharif, David Wood, Andrew W Murphy, Molly Byrne

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EASTERN MYSTICISM AND TIMOTHY LEARY: HUMAN BEYOND THE CONVENTIONAL REALITY by T. V. Danylova

“…The complex multifaceted essence of human as a biological, psychological, social being has attracted the attention of researchers and has caused hot debates during centuries. …”
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Safeguarding in Sport: The Performative Compliance of International Sports Federations by Carole Gomez, Lucie Schoch

“…To support this concept, Bourdieu’s Theory of Fields and Goffman’s Interactionist Sociology were used. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to implementation of a home-based cardiac rehabilitation programme for patients with heart failure in the NHS: a mixed-methods study by Rod S Taylor, Paulina Daw, Samantha B van Beurden, Jet J C S Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Alexander Harrison, Sinead T J McDonagh, Patrick J Doherty, Colin J Greaves, Hasnain M Dalal, Grace E R Wood

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Conscientização política e prática teórica no ensino de sociologia: um relato de experiência by Robson da Costa de Souza, Jefferson Evânio da Silva, Joanildo Burity

“…This article will initially deal with the importance of Socio-Philosophical Studies in the context of high school teaching/learning processes, problematizing, from a broader discussion on school institutionalization, the epistemological and political issues involvedboth in the debate about the presence of disciplines such as Sociology and Philosophy in basic education as well as in the discussion on the use of methods and techniques for teaching sociological theories among students in the school system. Having as reference the experiences reported (and developed) in the scope of a discipline of Theories of Social Sciences offered by a Professional Master’s Degree, in the City of Recife (PE), we will then see how teaching sociology, in the school context, is related to the universe of research and knowledge production in Human Sciences, in general, and Social Sciences, in a specific way. …”
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Leaving the chasm behind: Autoethnography, creativity and the search for identity in academia by Pete Frederick Atherton

“…The findings support Bochner’s (1994) idea that social science research can benefit from deliberately value-laden stories alongside empirical data and theories. …”
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As correntes interacionistas e a sua repercussão nas teorias de Anthony Giddens e Bruno Latour by Karine Pereira Goss

“…Finally, besides reflecting on the contributions that the three currents have given to social science, it stresses that one of the ways for sociology to recover a creative perspective is to retrieve the theoretical knowledge in conjunction with the empirical study developed by interactionist schools.…”
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Editorial by Christian Gütl

“…The increased visibility and social media presence have also led to a further increase in page views and article downloads. …”
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Improved Dark Channel Defogging Algorithm for Defect Detection in Underwater Structures by Longsheng Bao, Chunyan Zhao, Xingwei Xue, Ling Yu

“…Underwater structures are crucial for national economic and social development. However, because of their complex environment, they are susceptible to damage during service. …”
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CRISIS OF TRUST IN GOVERNMENT: THE ROLE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS IN ITS RESTORATION by Larysa Samoilenko, Viacheslav Sharyi, Alina Zahrebelna

“…In particular, a deficiency of trust can lead to an increase in social tension, rising protest moods, and, as a consequence, the destabilization of the political situation. …”
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Explanation and design of mentoring in order to promote human resources activities in the National Company of Southern Oil-bearing Regions by Ali Ghasemi Ghasemvand, Vahid Chenari, Mehrdad Hamari, Seyyed Ali Akbar Ahmadi

“…It can be concluded that, according to the background of the research and by studying the opinion of the researchers and by studying the researches, mentoring improves the activities of Human resources include: socialization of training and development, performance management, career path and succession, and preservation and maintenance of human resources. …”
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Meta-analysis on the chronic effects of exercise on depression in older adults by Melanie Mack, Claudia Voelcker-Rehage, Pinelopi S. Stavrinou, Iuliia Pavlova, Yaël Netz, Burcu Kömürcü Akik, Antonia Kaltsatou, Sandra Haider, Christoforos D. Giannaki, Arzu Erden, Andreea Badache, Michel Audiffren

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A cidadania, o universalismo e a diferença by Paulo Manuel Costa

“…The systematization of the debate was made with reference to four thematic axes: first, the relationship to be established between the public sphere and the private sphere; as a function of this joint, which identity prevails in the political community; thirdly, what is the role assigned to political participation; and, finally, the reflexes that citizenship may have on social cohesion of the political community. The existence of a core of common values and principles is essential to the stability and cohesion of the community, but it must be able to incorporate the difference in order to develop an identity that can be shared by various cultural and ethnic groups and thus prevent exclusion, marginalization and oppression. …”
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Ontological and intercultural anthropology of health among the shuar peoples of Zamora-Chinchipe by Christian Tym

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Investigating causal relationships between entrepreneurial education and sustainable employment generation in Islamic Azad Universities in Tehran by Sana Abdulali, Mohammad Naghi Imani GelepordesariI, Asghar Sharifi

“…Sustainable employment generation Job creation was first noticed by economists, and all economic schools have described job creation in their theories since the 16th century. Joseph Schumpeter presented his theory of economic development in 1934, which coincided with the great economic depression, and his opinion about the central role of workers in creating profits was noticed, and for this reason, he was called the "Father of Work". …”
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