Sociometric network analysis in illicit drugs research: A scoping review. by Naomi Zakimi, Alissa Greer, Martin Bouchard, Arshpreet Dhillon, Alison Ritter

“…<h4>Background</h4>Sociometric or whole network analysis, a method used to analyze relational patterns among social actors, emphasizes the role of social structure in shaping behaviour. Such method has been applied to many aspects of illicit drug research, including in the areas of public health, epidemiology, and criminology. …”
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Legal status of the cities of Galicyna in the nineteenth century (on the example of Stanislavov) by Ilyn L., Kaleniuk O.

“…Moreover, such changes led to the socio-economic growth of the city, changes in the social structure of the population, and the introduction of new principles of self-government based on the norms of administrative law. …”
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Nonparametric analysis of inter‐individual relations using an attention‐based neural network by Takashi Morita, Aru Toyoda, Seitaro Aisu, Akihisa Kaneko, Naoko Suda‐Hashimoto, Ikuma Adachi, Ikki Matsuda, Hiroki Koda

“…The proposed method successfully recovered the latent relations behind the simulated data and discovered female‐oriented relations in the real data, which are in accordance with the previous generalizations about the macaque social structure. The proposed method does not exploit any behavioural patterns that are particular to Japanese macaques, and researchers can use it for location data of other animals. …”
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PENIAPHOBIA AS A COMPONENT OF THE DESTRUCTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA DISCOURSE IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION by Margarita D. Lagutkina, Zhang Yi, Chang Thi Thu Huong

“…The authors attribute peniaphobia to one of the universal social stigmas that affect the social structure and culture of the community, recognizing that media discourse is actively using open public Internet communication to control public consciousness gently. …”
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Assessing the dynamics of  Mycobacterium bovis infection in three French badger populations by Calenge, Clément, Payne, Ariane, Réveillaud, Édouard, Richomme, Céline, Girard, Sébastien, Desvaux, Stéphanie

“…We developed a Bayesian model of prevalence accounting for the spatial structure of the cases, the imperfect and variable sensitivity of the diagnostic tests, and the correlation of the infection status of badgers in the same commune caused by local factors (e.g., social structure and proximity to infected farms). This model revealed that the prevalence increased with time in one cluster (Dordogne/Charentes), decreased in the second cluster (Burgundy), and remained stable in the third cluster (Bearn). …”
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Areas for action to promote positive forms of masculinities in preventing violence against women: a concept mapping study in Spain by Ariadna Cerdán-Torregrosa, Belén Sanz-Barbero, Daniel La Parra-Casado, Carmen Vives-Cases

“…Unequal gender relations produce differentiated positions in the social structure; gender roles that position men and women differently are defined and which are at the root of VAW. …”
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Accelerated expansion of NATO into the Balkans as a consequence of Euro-Atlantic Discord by S. Gajić, E. G. Ponomareva

“…Long before COVID-19, Brexit became a serious stress test for the economy and social structure of the European Union. Dramatic changes took place on the other side of the Atlantic too, resulting in the shocking victory of staunch anti-globalist Donald Trump. …”
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Identifying the Factors That Drive Health Service Utilization Among Healthy and Non‐Healthy Agers in a Sample of Older Ethiopians: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Amare Belachew, Nicolas Cherbuin, Nasser Bagheri, Richard Burns

“…This study aims to identify factors influencing health service use among healthy and non‐healthy agers, utilizing the Andersen‐Newman model that describes predisposing (including demographic characteristics, social structure, and health beliefs), enabling (related to the logistical aspects of obtaining care, such as personal and community resources), and need factors (referring to the individual's perceived and evaluated health status). …”
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An explorative qualitative study of barriers to the use of health and mental health services among migrant female sex workers in Germany and needs for action by Anastasiia Lotysh, Hürrem Tezcan-Güntekin, Olivia Kalinowski, Gizem Kaya, Franziska Kroehn-Liedtke, Hristiana Mihaylova, Meryam Schouler-Ocak, Wulf Rössler

“…The patient level was related to the patient characteristics: social structure variables, health beliefs and attitudes, personal enabling resources, community enabling resources, perceived illness, and personal health practices. …”
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Stigmatization of people with mental illness – a matter of milieu-specific worldviews? Results from a population-based survey in Germany by Jenny Spahlholz, Eva Baumann, Sven Speerforck, Sven Speerforck, Christian Sander, Christian Sander, Matthias C. Angermeyer, Georg Schomerus, Georg Schomerus

“…However, the extent of differentiation between the milieu groups was less pronounced regarding the desire for social distance towards people with schizophrenia than towards people with depression.ConclusionOur findings suggest that socio-cultural and socioeconomic dimensions of the society can be used for both describing heterogeneous societies and illuminating the underlying social structure of stigma. In addition to making blind spots more visible (i.e., schizophrenia), milieu-specific knowledge could be useful in deciding which intervention components are most appropriate for which milieu groups and how to apply them successfully.…”
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Effects of social determinants on children’s health in informal settlements in Bangladesh and Kenya through an intersectionality lens: a study protocol by Helen Elsey, Alastair H Leyland, Linsay Gray, Laura Dean, Bachera Aktar, Zahidul Quayyum, Penelope Phillips-Howard, Ivy Chumo, Caroline Kabaria, Blessing Mberu, Samuel Saidu, Lana Whittaker, Lakshmi K Josyula, Md Imran Hossain Mithu, Ross Forsyth, Eliud Kibuchi, Varun Sai, Sureka Garimella, Proloy Barua, Noemia Teixeira de Siqueira Filha, Tasmiah Selim, Ibrahim Gandi

“…Some of SDoH characteristics to be considered will include those of children, head of household, mothers and social structure characteristics of household. The primary outcomes will be whether a child had diarrhoea, cough, fever and acute respiratory infection (ARI) 2 weeks preceding surveys.Ethics and dissemination The results will be disseminated in international peer-reviewed journals and presented in events organised by the Accountability and Responsiveness in Informal Settlements for Equity consortium and international conferences. …”
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Social context affects tissue-specific copper distribution and behaviour of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) by Sienna L. Overduin, Shaun S. Killen, Alex M. Zimmer, Jenelle D. McCuaig, Lucy Cotgrove, Isabel Aragao, Kelly J. Rozanitis, Kurt O. Konhauser, Daniel S. Alessi, Tamzin A. Blewett

“…If disruption to an animal’s social structure occurs and prevents social buffering, an elevated metabolic rate and thus ventilation frequency and gill permeability are likely. …”
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Educide amid conflict: the struggle of the Palestinian education system by Dalal Iriqat, Rula Alousi, Tahani Z. Aldahdouh, Alaa AlDahdouh, Iman Dankar, Dima Alburai, Mohamed Buheji, Abdo Hassoun

“…Evidence indicates that such deliberate targeting aims to destabilize Gaza’s social structure and hinder long-term development. The findings highlight the urgent need for international accountability to halt these acts, safeguard education as a fundamental right and rebuild Gaza’s education system to ensure resilience and continuity amid conflict. …”
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Self-Organized Societies: On the Sakoda Model of Social Interactions by Pablo Medina, Eric Goles, Roberto Zarama, Sergio Rica

“…We characterize the behavior and the social structures appearing from a model of general social interaction proposed by Sakoda. …”
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The Certainty of Uncertainty. A Discussion of Patrik Aspers’ Book by Bruce G. Carruthers

“…Patrik Aspers’ recent book on uncertainty offers a welcome opportunity to explore how risk and uncertainty are socially structured. I summarize and discuss Aspers’ contribution.…”
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The crisis of the concept of society: historiosophical and sociological search by Irena Eglė Laumenskaitė

“…One of them is the problem of the agent of social reality, without reducing it to social structures or to social individuals as a set of social roles, which are imputed on him/her by society. …”
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“Taking advantage of emptiness”? by Pier Paolo Viazzo, Roberta Clara Zanini

“…This insight is closely reminiscent of recent anthropological work which suggests that cultural creativity needs space to express itself and that “thick” culture and strong social structures are less favourable to the blooming of creativity than thin and impoverished cultures and weak social structures. …”
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Modernisation des réseaux dans le Mexique révolutionnaire et postrévolutionnaire. Marcelo Portillo, entre communauté paysanne et parti politique by Évelyne Sanchez

“…From the path of a local actor in the Mexican Revolution, the article analyzes the impact of the emerging social structures linked to the revolution –agrarians groups and political parties– to understand the specific mechanisms of irruption of modernity within the villages. …”
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МИРОВОЗЗРЕНЧЕСКИЕ ТРАНСФОРМАЦИИ В ЭПОХУ ПОСТИНДУСТРИАЛЬНОГО ОБЩЕСТВА by R. Y. Chyhur

“…Information society is proposed to consider as a stage of social development, which is characterized by comprehensive information of social structures and which is replacing the post-industrial. …”
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CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY by E. S. Zinovieva

“…The spread of technology leads to the globalization of social structures and relations that are tied to them, which initially had a local origin. …”
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