Category: Social Sciences
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High urban flood risk and no shelter access disproportionally impacts vulnerable communities in the USA
Flood risk and access amalgamated We revisit the risk of flooding by studying FEMA’s Riverine Flood Risk Index and auto access to shelters in tandem. We use the Bivariate Local Indicator of Spatial Autocorrelation (BiLISA) clustering technique to spatially capture and visualize the characteristics of block groups under the concurrent influence of flooding risk and…
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The effects of children’s participation and co-creation in science
Engaging in collaboratively creating a science-oriented video game has yielded beneficial outcomes for participants, particularly children who have articulated their concerns, acquired scientific knowledge, applied it, expanded their understanding, and cultivated critical skills related to bullying. This positive influence stems from the equitable dialogue fostered among all participants during the Science Game Jam, the prevailing…
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Global agendas aim for equity but instead push people behind
Global agendas aim for equity but instead push people behind Continue Reading News Source: www.nature.com
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Psychological traits and public attitudes towards abortion: the role of empathy, locus of control, and need for cognition
The present study aimed to provide empirical evidence for the correlations between psychological factors and attitudes toward abortion. As introduced earlier, while it is common to find the involvement of psychology in everyday life attitudes and preferences, attitudes toward abortion are unique and drastically different. Given its unique nature, it lacks empirical evidence regarding whether…
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Weak central government, strong legal rights: the origins of divergent legal institutions in 18th-century Chinese and Japanese rice markets
Our model predicts that strong central governments (equivalent to central government with higher θ, k and f in the model) are less likely to offer legal protections (Result 3 & 4) than weak central governments (equivalent to central government with weak θ, k and f in the model). Moreover, a high level of legal protection…
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Do innovation and renewable energy transition play their role in environmental sustainability in Western Europe?
Acaravci A, Ozturk I (2010) On the relationship between energy consumption, CO2 emissions and economic growth in Europe. Energy 35(12):5412–5420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2010.07.009 Article Google Scholar Acaroğlu H, Güllü M (2022) Climate change caused by renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and economic growth: a time series ARDL analysis for Turkey. Renew Energy 193:434–447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.04.138 Article Google Scholar …
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“Listening to the zoom of a hornet”: Virginia Woolf’s feminist reflections on the sounds of military weapons and war violence
During the First World War, British civilians endured a myriad of German air raids, leading to an increased susceptibility to the sound of bombings. Meanwhile, some soldiers on the battlefield developed shell shock due to prolonged exposure to bomb explosions. Even after the war, they found themselves haunted by the lingering shadows of their traumatic…
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Willingness to pay for pesticide-free vegetables in Hokkaido, Japan: the relationship between appearance and pesticide use
In recent years, the problem of food loss has been severe worldwide, with an annual waste of 1.3 billion tons of food.Footnote 1 Meanwhile, Japan’s annual food loss in 2020 was approximately 5.2 million tons. Although Japan, with a low food self-sufficiency rate on a calorie basis (37% in 2020), imports numerous food items from…
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Exploring stakeholder engagement in urban village renovation projects through a mixed-method approach to social network analysis: a case study of Tianjin
This section consists of four subsections. First, it describes the implementation challenges, international experience, and the main processes of urban village renovation projects. Second, it reviews previous studies on stakeholders and their interrelationships in urban village renovation projects. Next, the application of Social Network Analysis (SNA) methods and their relevance to the research questions in…
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Making and interpreting: digital humanities as embodied action
Kirschenbaum notes that DH is more akin to a common methodological outlook (2012), which perhaps downgrades the significance of DH and its potential to be a new space in comprehending and forming the world. Some scholars question whether the centre and the boundaries of DH remain amorphous (McCarty, 2016); Svensson (2016), for example, describes DH…