A Social Systems Approach to Self‐assessed Health and Its Determinants in the Digital Era
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DOI: 10.1002/sres.2545
Abstract: Placing self‐assessed health (SAH) and its determinants within a social systems framework, the current paper aims to investigate the influences of individual characteristics, environmental and socio‐economic factors on the way people rate their own health.… read more here.
Keywords: social systems; digital era; self assessed; health ... See more keywords
Groups, organizations, families and movements: The sociology of social systems between interaction and society
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DOI: 10.1002/sres.2685
Abstract: In enhancing a proposal by Luhmann, this contribution shows that it is possible to locate different types of systems between ‘face‐to‐face‐interaction’ and ‘society’: groups, organizations, families and protest movements. The common ground of these is… read more here.
Keywords: social systems; interaction society; groups organizations; sociology ... See more keywords
Integrating simulation and signal processing in tracking complex social systems
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DOI: 10.1007/s10588-018-9276-6
Abstract: Data that continuously track the dynamics of large populations have the potential to revolutionize how we study complex social systems. However, coping with massive, noisy, unstructured, and disparate data streams is not easy. In this… read more here.
Keywords: complex social; simulation signal; signal processing; social systems ... See more keywords
A Limit to Our Thinking and Some Unanticipated Moral Consequences: A Science of Conceptual Systems Perspective with Some Potential Solutions
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DOI: 10.1007/s11213-016-9394-3
Abstract: One paradox of modern society is the widespread use of highly complex mechanisms of economic and social self-regulation which produce a large number of unintended and often undesirable side-effects. Human conceptual systems (theories, policies, and… read more here.
Keywords: social systems; thinking unanticipated; complexity; conceptual systems ... See more keywords
Appraising the Epistemic Performance of Social Systems: The Case of Think Tank Evaluations
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DOI: 10.1017/epi.2020.16
Abstract: This article elaborates a conceptual framework to systematize the epistemic evaluation of social systems. This framework can be used to structure an evaluation or to characterize and assess existing ones. The article then uses the… read more here.
Keywords: social systems; appraising epistemic; think tank; think tanks ... See more keywords
Social‐Environmental Extremes: Rethinking Extraordinary Events as Outcomes of Interacting Biophysical and Social Systems
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DOI: 10.1029/2019ef001319
Abstract: Extreme droughts, heat waves, fires, hurricanes, floods, and landslides cause the largest losses in the United States, and globally, from natural hazards linked to weather and climate. There is evidence that the frequency of such… read more here.
Keywords: biophysical social; extraordinary events; extreme events; social environmental ... See more keywords
Characterization of Pan social systems reveals in-group/out-group distinction and out-group tolerance in bonobos
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2201122119
Abstract: Significance In striking contrast to chimpanzees, tolerant between-group interactions in bonobos, our other closest living relative, have been suggested as a pathway to understanding the evolution of human between-group peacemaking and cooperation. However, due to… read more here.
Keywords: pan social; social systems; group; group tolerance ... See more keywords
The suicide bomber as a medium of terrorist communication: a contribution from social systems theory
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DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2018.1529111
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper examines how suicide bombers are framed in terrorist communication, focusing on the empirical case of al-Qaeda’s suicide campaigns. Relying on the concept of media of communication in social systems theory, three main… read more here.
Keywords: social systems; terrorist communication; communication; systems theory ... See more keywords
Moral communication observed with social systems theory. An introduction
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DOI: 10.1108/k-01-2022-0059
Abstract: PurposeThe present article pertains to recent advances in social systems theoretical analyses of moral communication.Design/methodology/approachAn introduction to basic concepts and requirements for systems-theoretical approaches to morality and communication is provided, as is an introduction to… read more here.
Keywords: communication; observed social; systems theory; moral communication ... See more keywords
Leakage Models and Inference Attacks on Searchable Encryption for Cyber-Physical Social Systems
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DOI: 10.1109/access.2018.2800684
Abstract: Searchable encryption (SE) schemes, such as those deployed for cyber-physical social systems, may be vulnerable to inference attacks. In such attacks, attackers seek to learn sensitive information about the queries and data stored on the… read more here.
Keywords: social systems; leakage; inference attacks; cyber physical ... See more keywords
A New Cloudlet Placement Method Based on Affinity Propagation for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks
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DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.2974895
Abstract: Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS) integrates the cyber, physical and social spaces together. There are a large number of mobile users in CPSS that need low latency services. Fortunately, mobile edge computing (MEC) is a novel technology… read more here.
Keywords: number; physical social; cyber physical; new cloudlet ... See more keywords