Sociology topic list of research papers
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Desperately seeking reductions in health inequalities: perspectives of UK researchers on past, present and future directions in health inequalities research2015 / Kayleigh Garthwaite, Katherine E. Smith, Clare Bambra, Jamie Pearce
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Can Policy Be Risk-Based? The Cultural Theory of Risk and the Case of Livestock Disease Containment2014 / Dominic Duckett, Brian Wynne, Rob M. Christley, A. Louise Heathwaite, Maggie Mort, et al.
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The impact of SENAI's vocational training program on employment, wages, and mobility in Brazil: Lessons for Sub Saharan Africa?
Abstract This paper provides a comprehensive impact evaluation of the Brazilian National Service for Industrial Training (SENAI). We examine whether such a system could provide lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa, where most countries face rising...
2016 / Carlos Villalobos Barría, Stephan Klasen -
Future orientation climate in the school class: Relations to adolescent delinquency, heavy alcohol use, and internalizing problems
Abstract It is well known, based on previous research, that adolescents' thoughts and feelings about their future are related to the risk of delinquency, alcohol use as well as health. However, other well-known facts are that adolescents' actions...
2016 / Susanne Alm, Sara B. Låftman -
Cultural Ecosystem Services in Protected Areas: Understanding Bundles, Trade-Offs, and Synergies2016 / Judith M. Ament, Christine A. Moore, Marna Herbst, Graeme S. Cumming
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Affectivity as mediator of the relation between optimism and quality of life in men who have sex with men with HIV
Abstract Background/Objective: Increased life expectancy has made quality of life the primary objective in the care of chronic patients and people living with HIV. It found evidence of the link between optimism, quality of life ...
2016 / Pablo Vera-Villarroel, Arturo Valtierra, Daniela Contreras -
Registro notable de águila real (Aquila chrysaetos) en la Reserva de la Biosfera Tehuacán-Cuicatlán, Puebla, México
Resumen Se documentó la presencia de águila real (Aquila chrysaetos) mediante el fotorregistro más sureño del estado de Puebla en la Reserva de la Biosfera Tehuacán-Cuicatlán. La selva baja caducifolia y el matorral xerófilo de la reserva son tipos...
2016 / Verónica Farías, Omar Hernández, María del Coro Arizmendi, Oswaldo Téllez, Francisco Botello, et al. -
Gender differentials and old age survival in the Nairobi slums, Kenya
Abstract This paper examines gender differentials in survival amongst older people (50+ years) in the Nairobi slums and to the best of our knowledge is the first study of its kind in an urban African setting. The results provide evidence contrary to ...
2016 / Rachel Bennett, Gloria Chepngeno-Langat, Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham -
Increasing inequality in age of death at shared levels of life expectancy: A comparative study of Scotland and England and Wales
Abstract There is a strong negative correlation between increasing life expectancy and decreasing lifespan variation, a measure of inequality. Previous research suggests that countries achieving a high level of life expectancy later in time...
2016 / Rosie Seaman, Alastair H. Leyland, Frank Popham -
Validation of the Drinking Motives Questionnaire - Revised in six European countries2016 / Maria Fernandes-Jesus, Franca Beccaria, Jakob Demant, Lena Fleig, Isabel Menezes, et al.
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Using photovoice methods to explore older people's perceptions of respect and social inclusion in cities: Opportunities, challenges and solutions
Abstract Urbanisation and population ageing have contributed to recognise cities as important settings for healthy ageing. This paper considers opportunities, challenges and solutions of using photovoice methods for exploring how individuals...
2016 / Sara Ronzi, Daniel Pope, Lois Orton, Nigel Bruce -
Patogenicidad de especies de Fusarium asociadas a la pudrición basal del ajo en el centro norte de México
Resumen El ajo en México es uno de los cultivos de hortalizas más rentables, más del 83% de esta superficie es aportada por los estados de Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Sonora, Puebla, Baja California y Aguascalientes. La pudrición basal...
2016 / Juan C. Delgado-Ortiz, Yisa M. Ochoa-Fuentes, Ernesto Cerna-Chávez, Mariana Beltrán-Beache, Raúl Rodríguez-Guerra, et al. -
R&D and productivity in OECD firms and industries: A hierarchical meta-regression analysis
Abstract The relationship between R&D investment and firm/industry productivity has been investigated widely following seminal contributions by Zvi Griliches and others from late 1970s onwards. We aim to provide a systematic synthesis of the...
2016 / Mehmet Ugur, Eshref Trushin, Edna Solomon, Francesco Guidi -
The impact of limiting long term illness on internal migration in England and Wales: New evidence from census microdata
Abstract Previous research has suggested that poor health is associated with reduced migration; this knowledge stems from models based on past censuses, or longitudinal studies which imply that the factors influencing migration are the same between...
2016 / Sam Wilding, David Martin, Graham Moon -
Un estimador de error residual semiexplícito en cantidades de interés para un problema mecánico lineal
Resumen El objetivo de este trabajo es definir un método semiexplícito para estimar el error en cantidades de interés derivado de la resolución por elementos finitos de un problema de elasticidad lineal. En este proceso, se identifican dos etapas:...
2015 / R. Rosales, P. Díez -
The subjective wellbeing of migrants in Guangzhou, China: The impacts of the social and physical environment
Abstract China has witnessed a surge of rural-urban migrants over the past three decades. Although a plethora of literature has shed light on the low quality of migrants' lives, little research has been done to understand how migrants evaluate their ...
2016 / Yuqi Liu, Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu, Ye Liu, Zhigang Li -
Dysfunctional Effects of a Conflict in a Healthcare Organization / Дисфункциональный Аспект Конфликта В Организации Здравоохранения2016 / Ekaterina L. Raykova, Mariya A. Semerjieva, Georgi Y. Yordanov, Todor D. Cherkezov
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Prescription hypnotics in the news: A study of UK audiences
Abstract In 2012 the UK media reported the results of a paper in the British Medical Journal Open, including the finding that hypnotics increase the risk of ‘premature death’. Taking this media coverage as a case study, the paper explores UK...
2016 / Jonathan Gabe, Simon J. Williams, Catherine M. Coveney -
Successful ageing and multi-dimensional poverty: the case of Peru2015 / JAVIER OLIVERA, ISABELLE TOURNIER
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Spanish version of the Sexual Excitation/Sexual Inhibition Inventory for Women: Factorial structure, reliability and validity evidences
Abstract Background/Objective: The Dual Control Model suggests that sexual excitation and associated behaviors are the result of the balance between relatively independent excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms. Based on this...
2016 / M. Reina Granados, José María Salinas, Juan Carlos Sierra