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Better off households moving to more deprived areas: What is happening? Why?
Economic theories of residential location suggest that households tend to live in neighbourhoods with similar households. Yet in England we have seen...
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Gang Rule(s): Towards a Political Economy of Youth Gang Dynamics in Nicaragua
This article explores the longitudinal dynamics of youth gang transformation in urban Nicaragua. On the basis of an overview of successive gang...
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The “Social Brain,” Reciprocity, and Social Network Segregation along Ethnic Boundaries
How does segregation along ethnic boundaries emerge in social networks? Human evolution resulted in highly social beings, capable of prosociality,...
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The Uncanny Capital: Map** the Historical Spatial Evolution of Windhoek
This paper has traced the historic spatial development of Windhoek through five distinct socio-political epochs. These different periods’ spatial,...
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Spending and length of stay by tourists flying to the Canary Islands (Spain) using low-cost carriers
The AIM of this study is to examine and evaluate differences in expenditure and length of stay between tourists who use low-cost carriers and those...
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Colonial Influence on Local Relationships with Leisure and Environment in East Africa: Intersecting Two Literatures to Reflect on Domestic Ecotourism
In East Africa, settler-colonization during the Scramble for Africa period and the militarized conservation regimes that became a common feature of...
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Collecting, analyzing, and visualizing location-based social media data: review of methods in GIS-social media analysis
With billions of active users, social media platforms now generate spatial data on a massive scale, which presents researchers with opportunities to...
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Women’s Divergent Union Transitions After Marital Dissolution in the United States
In the United States, high marital instability calls for more research on union transitions after marital dissolution. Previous studies focus on...
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From Gods to God: Impacts of Historical Ecology in the Christian Co-Option of Hawaiian Sacred Spaces
Over an approximately 1,000-year settlement history, the distribution of Native Hawaiian cultural sites across the landscape has been driven, in...
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A New Composite Indicator for Assessing Energy Poverty Using Normalized Entropy
Using a unique or common measure of energy poverty is very limited for the true classification of a household being in energy poverty. Thus, this...
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Ein zweistufiges Modell zur Erklärung sozialen Handelns – Methodologische Grundlagen, statistische Modellierung und Anwendung auf kriminelles Handeln
Das Ziel der vorliegenden Studie besteht darin, innerhalb des Bezugsrahmens der analytischen Soziologie und ausgehend von einem Rational...
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Conclusions: Transrational Hope
This chapter concludes by furthering an understanding of the creative value of transrationality, and through examining the politics of self and its...
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Ancient Conflagration: a Reconstruction of a Middle Formative Fire at the Chiripa Mound, Bolivia
In this study, we assess competing interpretations of a burnt ceremonial structure from the terminal Middle Formative period (ca. 300–100 BCE) by...
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Participatory Budgeting: Models and Approaches
Participatory budgeting is a democratic approach to deciding the funding of public projects, which has been adopted in many cities across the world....
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How to choose an approach to handling missing categorical data: (un)expected findings from a simulated statistical experiment
The study is devoted to a comparison of three approaches to handling missing data of categorical variables: complete case analysis, multiple...
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Patient Perceptions of Illness Causes and Treatment Preferences for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Study
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a condition with high patient morbidity and mortality. Research shows that eliciting patient explanations...
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Understanding the Origins of International Migration
In this chapter, we discuss various ways in which the underlying reasons for migration might be understood. Our discussion is mainly structured...
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Rethinking Aging: Toward Trust Relations?
Trust is loaded with a range of problems for governments with older people with the issues uncovered in this book. For example, health legislation...
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Comparing Product Lifetime Extensions by Enhancing Consumers’ Expected Product Lifetime Among Different Durable Products
Product lifetime extension is a major strategy in a circular economy. Circular economy policies encourage the improvement of product designs for...
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Estimating Weights for the Active Ageing Index (AAI) from Stated Preferences: Proposal for a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE)
This chapter outlines how Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) could be used to estimate alternative weights for the Active Ageing Index (AAI) based on...