Measures of social connectedness in adult populations: a systematic review by Ruth Plackett, Joe Hulin, Clara Mukuria, Mark Clowes, Sheena E. Ramsay, Liam Spencer, Emma A. Adams, Jennifer Dykxhoorn, Kate Walters, David P. J. Osborn, Victoria Zamperoni, Oliver Jones, Scott Weich

“…Studies based on UK adult general populations (16–65 years) or other English language speaking countries with similar cultures (US, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand) were included. Psychometric evidence was extracted relating to six general domains: conceptual model, content validity, reliability, construct validity, scoring and interpretability, and respondent burden and presentation. …”
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LLM-AIDSim: LLM-Enhanced Agent-Based Influence Diffusion Simulation in Social Networks by Lan Zhang, Yuxuan Hu, Weihua Li, Quan Bai, Parma Nand

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The Political Realities of Social Science Research with Focusing on the book of Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Parvin Ghasemi

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Designing of a Personality Based Emotional Decision Model for Generating Various Emotional Behavior of Social Robots by Ho Seok Ahn

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Surveying the UNIPREP Orientation Program at the University of New South Wales: The Beginning of the Transition Process Into University by Julie Erskine

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Systematic review of health and social outcomes among Indigenous People exposed to the child welfare system: a protocol by Margaret Robinson, Flint D. Schwartz, Tara M. Pride, Sherry H. Stewart, Sean P. Mackinnon

“…Our objective is to assess whether Indigenous People who have been exposed to a child welfare system personally or intergenerationally (ie, parents and/or grandparents) within Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA (CANZUS countries) and the circumpolar region are at an increased risk for negative health and social outcomes compared with other exposed and non-exposed groups.Methods and analysis We will undertake a comprehensive exploration of literature documenting health and social outcomes for Indigenous individuals with personal or intergenerational exposure to a child welfare system. …”
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Reinvestigating social vulnerability from the perspective of Critical Disaster Studies (CDS): directions, opportunities and challenges in Aotearoa disaster research by Shinya Uekusa, Matthew Wynyard, Steve Matthewman

“…Disaster scholars here must also reckon with the structural violence of colonisation. Aotearoa New Zealand has a unique hazard profile, and it has unique social infrastructures that can help deal with them. …”
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Social smart city research: interconnections between participatory governance, data privacy, artificial intelligence and ethical sustainable development by Samad Rasoulzadeh Aghdam, Samad Rasoulzadeh Aghdam, Behnaz Bababei Morad, Behnam Ghasemzadeh, Behnam Ghasemzadeh, Behnam Ghasemzadeh, Mazdak Irani, Aapo Huovila

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Hook, line, and social media: crowd-sourced images reveal size and species patterns of ocean sunfishes (Tetraodontiformes, Molidae) from California to Alaska by Tor Mowatt-Larssen, Tierney M. Thys, Jackie Hildering, Eric J. Caldera, Ellen E. Biesack, Jan R. McDowell, Marianne Nyegaard, Marianne Nyegaard

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Book review: Kinship care: Fostering effective family and friends placements. Elaine Farmer and Sue Moyers London, Jessica Kingsley Publications, 2008. 254pp, ISBN 978 1 84310 631... by Leon Fulcher

Conference reflections: EUSARF 2012 by Laura Steckley

An exploration of the impression management and dialogical potential of arts organisations by Angelique Nairn, Deepti Bhargava

“…We, therefore, conducted a thematic analysis to examine if this was also the case with a New Zealand arts organisation.On examining New Zealand Opera’s Facebook™ posts and their accompanying comments; this study found that social media was only being used for one-way impression management, without any dialogic intention to stimulate the public into authentic engagement.…”
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Understanding mariners’ tsunami information needs and decision-making contexts: A post-event case study of the 2022 Tonga eruption and tsunami by Sara E. Harrison, Rachel V. Lawson, Lucy Kaiser, Sally H. Potter, David Johnston

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There’s (not) an App for that: situating smartphones, Excel and the techno-political interfaces and infrastructures of digital solutions for COVID-19 by Luke Heemsbergen, Catherine Bennett, Monique Mann

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Does Preendoscopy Rockall Score Safely Identify Low Risk Patients following Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage? by Matthew R. Johnston, Iain A. Murray, Michael Schultz, Peter McLeod, Nathan O’Donnell, Heather Norton, Chelsea Baines, Emily Fawcett, Terry Fesaitu, Hin Leung, Jeong-Yoon Park, Adibah Salleh, Wei Zhang, José A. García

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Different Approaches to requesting Consent for Routine data linkage in Neonatal follow-up (ACORN): protocol for a 2×2 factorial randomised trial by Jane E Harding, Barry Milne, Jenny Rogers, Greg Gamble, Jane Marie Alsweiler, Christopher McKinlay, Gavin Brown, Aakash Bajirao Rajay, Caroline Anne Crowther, Nike Franke, Trecia Wouldes

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Determining barriers and facilitators to engagement for families in a family-based, multicomponent healthy lifestyles intervention for children and adolescents: a qualitative study by Yvonne C Anderson, Paul L Hofman, Cervantée EK Wild, Ngauru T Rawiri, Esther J Willing

“…Objectives Recruitment and retention in child and adolescent healthy lifestyle intervention services for childhood obesity is challenging, and inequalities across social groups are persistent. This study aimed to understand the barriers and facilitators to engagement in a multicomponent assessment-and-intervention healthy lifestyle programme for children and their families, based in the home and community.Design Qualitative interview-based study of past users (n=76) of a family-based multicomponent healthy lifestyle programme in a mixed urban–rural region of New Zealand. …”
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Appetite Response among Those Susceptible or Resistant to Obesity by Rachel C. Brown, Rebecca T. McLay-Cooke, Sara L. Richardson, Sheila M. Williams, David R. Grattan, Alexandra W.-A. H. Chisholm

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Unintended Sunburn: A Potential Target for Sun Protection Messages by Geraldine F. H. McLeod, Anthony I. Reeder, Andrew R. Gray, Rob McGee

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