Divisions of Labour: Sociology in search of a new jurisdiction
(2017)
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All Outputs (199)
Showdown in Schönau: a contest case study (2017)
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This chapter analyzes a referendum campaign as a case study of a contest. The referendum, held in 1996 in the small German town of Schönau, led to the replacement of the conventional electricity supplier by a firm founded by the local environmentalis... Read More about Showdown in Schönau: a contest case study.
Therapeutic communities (2017)
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Learning Outcomes: By the end of this chapter we hope that you will be able to: 1.Understand some of the core principles underlying Therapeutic Communities (TCs). 2.Identify the historic roots behind TCs in terms of providing an alternative therapeut... Read More about Therapeutic communities.
Evolution of consistent conjectures in semi-aggregative representation of games, with applications to public good games and contests (2017)
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In a semi-aggregative representation of a game, the payoff of a player depends on a player's own strategy and on a personalized aggregate of all players' strategies. Suppose that each player has a conjecture about the reaction of the personalized agg... Read More about Evolution of consistent conjectures in semi-aggregative representation of games, with applications to public good games and contests.
The influence of road marking, shape of central island, and truck apron on total and truck accidents at roundabouts (2017)
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© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, London. For in-service roundabouts where traffic volume has changed since design, road marking is an important factor affecting the safety and capacity of roundabouts. The principal aim of this study is to investigate... Read More about The influence of road marking, shape of central island, and truck apron on total and truck accidents at roundabouts.
Science Olympiad students: a case study of aspiration, attitude, and achievement (2017)
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How generational replacement undermined the electoral resilience of Fianna Fáil (2017)
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This chapter focuses on party switching. The civil-war cleavage that differentiated the two main Irish parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, has been gradually diminishing in importance in recent decades. This trend reached a crescendo in 2011, when th... Read More about How generational replacement undermined the electoral resilience of Fianna Fáil.
Product and labor market entry costs, underemployment and international trade (2017)
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We develop a small, open economy, two-sector model with heterogeneous agents and endogenous participation in a labor matching market. There are two types of agents: workers and entrepreneurs. Both populations are heterogeneous. Workers are distinguis... Read More about Product and labor market entry costs, underemployment and international trade.
Producer services and trade liberalization (2017)
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Trade liberalization and recent advances in communication and information technologies increasingly permit the trade of producer services across borders. This entry discusses research on the nature and importance of such trade, and on the consequence... Read More about Producer services and trade liberalization.
Promoting Healthy Adolescent Lifestyles Through Serious Games: Enacting a Multidisciplinary Approach (2017)
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© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. Long-term health risks associated with unhealthy lifestyles present a significant current and future burden for healthcare providers. Adolescence represents a critical time for intervention, as habits form... Read More about Promoting Healthy Adolescent Lifestyles Through Serious Games: Enacting a Multidisciplinary Approach.
Une corde de plus à l’arc de tout le monde’ : L’usage de la photographie chez Balzac et Hugo (2017)
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This illustrated article appeared in the first major publication on the photographic representation of the author, based in part on a landmark conference at the famous Cerisy-la-Salle venue in France in 2014. Demonstrating that Balzac’s and Hugo’s au... Read More about Une corde de plus à l’arc de tout le monde’ : L’usage de la photographie chez Balzac et Hugo.
Movement synchrony, joint actions, and collective agency in infancy (2017)
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Analysis of biochars for C,H,N,O and S by elemental analyser (2017)
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Analysis of biochars by hydropyrolysis (2017)
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Social work and care/case management in dementia (2017)
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© 2017 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Social work, like any professional or occupational group, is inseparable from the organizational and legislative context in which it takes place since this denes the parameters of practice. Prior to the introd... Read More about Social work and care/case management in dementia.
Inverting the flexicurity paradigm: the United Kingdom and zero hours contracts (2017)
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Labour and social security law studies have addressed the topic of the decline of the standard employment relationship mainly from the point of view of the growing number of atypical relationships. Only a limited number of studies have examined the i... Read More about Inverting the flexicurity paradigm: the United Kingdom and zero hours contracts.
Landscape Management (2017)
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The viewpoint taken for Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows exhibited 1831 (Tate T13896) obscures the city and emphasises the rural landscape; much of the middle ground consists of trees, shrubs and grassland. This allows us to explore the way Const... Read More about Landscape Management.