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Open AccessWhere to after COVID-19? Systems thinking for a human-centred approach to pandemics
Whilst policymaking will always remain a highly political process, especially amidst crises, evidence-based pandemic management can benefit from adopting a socioecological perspective that integrates multi- an...
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A Decentralized Sociology for Digital Society
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Open AccessScience and values: a two-way direction
In the science and values literature, scholars have shown how science is influenced and shaped by values, often in opposition to the ‘value free’ ideal of science. In this paper, we aim to contribute to the sc...
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Open AccessInteraction between water, crop residue and fertilization management on the source-differentiated nitrogen uptake by rice
Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) is an effective water-saving practice for rice cultivation that may however promote nitrogen (N) losses compared to continuous flooding (CF). The interaction between water, c...
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Open AccessHow is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research
Participatory and collaborative approaches in sustainability science and public health research contribute to co-producing evidence that can support interventions by involving diverse societal actors that rang...
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Automated Content Writing Tools and the Question of Objectivity
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What Can AI Learn from Medicine?
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Digital Society is a Choice
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Loss-of-function variants in MID1 are the most common cause of Opitz G/BBB syndrome (OS). The interpretation of intronic variants affecting the splicing is a rising issue in OS.
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Open AccessConnecting ethics and epistemology of AI
The need for fair and just AI is often related to the possibility of understanding AI itself, in other words, of turning an opaque box into a glass box, as inspectable as possible. Transparency and explainabil...
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Urban Slum Upgrading: A Model for Expeditious Estimation of the Cost of Interventions
More than a billion people around the world live in slums in undignified and precarious living conditions. These are places of high poverty characterized by overcrowding, poor housing facilities and inadequate...
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Socio-Markers and Information Transmission
The health sciences have seen an unprecedented development since the ‘molecular turn’: we are now able to obtain very fine-grained information about health and disease, by identifying and validating bio-marker...
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Research, Development and Innovation Projects for Territorial Cohesion in Inland Marginal Areas: Economic Analysis of Social and Cultural Benefits
To counteract the phenomena of demographic decline and marginalisation of inland areas, there is an urgent need for strategies and policy interventions to prevent the loss of a vast historical and cultural her...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building
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Open AccessPhilosophy of science in practice in ecological model building
This article addresses the contributions of the literature on the new mechanistic philosophy of science for the scientific practice of model building in ecology. This is reflected in a one-to-one interdiscipl...
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On the Phenomenon of Depopulation of Inland Areas
The demographic decline of inland areas is a phenomenon that, especially in recent decades, has reached significant dimensions in many European countries and the world. This phenomenon involves about 60% of th...
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Hydrogeological Damage: An Overview on Appraisal Issues
The growing frequency of hydrogeological instability reflects the fragility of many territories, due to their geological, geomorphological, and hydrographic conformation. In addition, human actions, such as co...
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Transport Infrastructures and Economic Development of the Territory
Transport infrastructures offer a fundamental contribution to the economic and social development of a country. These, branching out over the territory, allow the movement and transport of people and goods wit...
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Open AccessExperimental practices and objectivity in the social sciences: re-embedding construct validity in the internal–external validity distinction
The experimental revolution in the social sciences is one of the most significant methodological shifts undergone by the field since the ‘quantitative revolution’ in the nineteenth century. One of the often va...
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COVID-19 heralds a new epistemology of science for the public good
COVID-19 has revealed that science needs to learn how to better deal with the irreducible uncertainty that comes with global systemic risks as well as with the social responsibility of science towards the publ...
