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Healthcare through social computing: a case for public–private collaboration
Valverde, Jose A. - In: International Journal of Management and Network Economics 1 (2009) 3, pp. 343-355
Lately, a new trend has specially outreached on the Information Society that of Social Computing. Starting from a citizen-focused model of health seamless provision of services, this paper analyses some current Web 2.0 initiatives on the Health sector. These opportunities would not be fully...
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Wirkung kommunaler Investitionen in die Tourismusinfrastruktur am Beispiel Sachsens
Kauffmann, Albrecht - In: Review of Regional Research 31 (2011) 1, pp. 57-73
The mass of investments into infrastructure for tourism in the so-called “New States” (Neue Länder) of the Federal … effects of local public investment into infrastructure for tourism supported by investment grants on the local employment in …
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Tourismus als eine Möglichkeit zur Erhöhung des ländlichen Einkommens? Ergebnisse einer Fallstudie in Bałtów, Südostpolen
Gramzow, Andreas - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2006
partnership undertook initiatives to stimulate the regional economy by creating a tourism infrastructure. This paper presents a …. In 2004, the regional partnership also applied for the pilot measure to implement the EU Initiative Leader+. The tourism …
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Evaluating the Regional Impact of a New Road on Tourism
Ferri, Javier - In: Regional Studies 38 (2004) 4, pp. 409-418
Ferri J. (2004) Evaluating the regional impact of a new road on tourism, Reg. Studies 38, 409-418. The aim of this work … contributed to expanding hotel tourism in the Valencia region. Some of the most important tourist destinations in Spain, both … that the impact on tourism of the motorway has been varied and depends on three factors: (1) the origin of the tourism; (2 …
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Economic Change and the Labour Market in Britain's Seaside Towns
Beatty, Christina; Fothergill, Stephen - In: Regional Studies 38 (2004) 5, pp. 459-478
even the sectors of the local economy most closely linked to tourism show growth in employment. …
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Western Financial Agents and Islamic Ethics
Fang, Eddy; Foucart, Renaud - In: Journal of Business Ethics 123 (2014) 3, pp. 475-491
This paper investigates Western professional bankers’ perceptions of Islamic finance. Exploiting data from an original survey, we carry out a principal component analysis (PCA) to characterize the main dimensions on which financial agents diverge. The PCA extracts five dimensions—accounting...
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Somebody may scold you! A dictator experiment
Festré, Agnès; Pierre, Garrouste - HAL - 2015
In this contribution, we investigate the effects of observation-only and observation with feedback from a third-party, in a one-shot dictator game (DG). In addition to a baseline condition (DG), a third-party anonymous subject is introduced who either silently observes or observes and gives...
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A CONNECTIONIST ABM OF SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION PROCESSES
ROOY, DIRK VAN - In: Advances in Complex Systems (ACS) 15 (2012) 06, pp. 1250077-1
This paper introduces a connectionist Agent-Based Model (cABM) that incorporates detailed, micro-level understanding of social influence processes derived from laboratory studies and that aims to contextualize these processes in such a way that it becomes possible to model multidirectional,...
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ПРОБЛЕМА ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ В СВЕТЕ ГЛОБАЛИЗАЦИИ И МОДЕРНИЗАЦИОННЫХ СТРАТЕГИЙ // PROBLEM OF IDENTITY IN THE LIGHT OF GLOBALIZATION AND MODERNIZATION STRATEGY...
Vinogravov, D.V. - In: The Russian Academic Journal 15 (2011) 1
В статье освещены теоретические вопросы развития понятия идентичности, которое не возможно без рассмотренияпонятия идеология. На этом понятии, как мне...
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The formation of conventional expectations under strong uncertainty: a reply
Koutsobinas, Theodore T. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) January, pp. 125-132
Purpose – This paper aims to reply to Dequech's comment in the International Journal of Social Economics on the analysis of the formation of conventional expectations under strong uncertainty, which was proposed in the present author's 2004 article in the International Journal of Social...
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