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Birth Weight and Breastfeeding of the Child
Although this book focuses on adolescent girls, it seemed useful to address birth weight and breastfeeding practice immediately after birth, which...
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An ‘Epistemic Weight’ of Islamic Practical Theology in Contemporary Islamic Social Work
The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the main arguments in the development of Islamic social work practice. In this respect, Islamic practical...
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Exploring the relationships between learners’ social and cognitive presence patterns and peer support in digital social reading
This study explored how undergraduate students demonstrated cognitive and social presence in their written comments during asynchronous social...
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How the Social Gets Under the Skin: From the Social as Signal to Society as a Metabolic Milieu
Inflammation has risen to the forefront of biomedical research into many chronic diseases prevalent in industrialized countries, including mental,...
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Life Satisfaction and the Roles of Work, Family, and Social Factors in a Social Production Function Framework
Life satisfaction, through the cultivation of happiness and the avoidance of misery, is one of the ultimate outcomes of interest for the public...
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The Emergence of Social Folds: How the Environment Contributes to the Creation of Ambivalent Social Actors
The concept of “environment” is ambiguous in social theory. Sometimes it is wielded like a “tyrant” which moulds subjects as if they were a simple...
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Time-Restricted Eating: Effects on Body Weight and Cardiometabolic Health
Time-restricted eating (TRE) is a form of intermittent fasting that involves eating within a consistent ≤10-hour daily window. More than 100 clinical...
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Social Class and Social Cohesion Among American Jews
BackgroundDistinctions in social class and their implications for social cohesion have periodically emerged among American Jews, but they largely...
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A new method for multispace analysis of multidimensional social exclusion
Social phenomena are multidimensional and dependent on geographic space. Numerous methods are capable of representing multidimensional social...
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Five worlds of social reproduction after the new millennium: placing transitional China in a three-dimensional model of social reproduction
Since the late 2000s, China has accelerated reconstruction of the welfare state against the backdrop of the second transition. Following a...
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The Social Dimension of the European Union: A Means to lock out Social Competition?
In the process of European integration, the social dimension has to date been subordinated to presumed economic requirements. There have been no...
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Clinical Social Research and Social Intervention
This chapter delineates the scope of Clinical Social Research and Social Intervention and the organizational principles that govern it as a complex...
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Turbulent times for flemish social housing
Flanders has a relatively small but well targeted social housing stock. Social housing policy has been fairly stable since the devolvement of housing...
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Social Theory and Transgender: Beyond Polarization
This paper argues that social theory can cast light on some of the main themes in current debates about trans issues. It considers four such themes:...
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Social media-based social–psychological community resilience analysis of five countries on COVID-19
Community resilience (CR) has been studied as an indicator to measure how well a given community copes with and recovers from a given disaster....
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Measuring social vulnerability to natural hazards in China: a modified index approach
Climate-related disasters have adversely affected the livelihoods and well-being of people in both developed and develo** countries, including...
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Behavioural Endocrinology in the Social Sciences
Hormones are the endocrine system’s messengers and an important coordinating mechanism of the body’s growth, development, and functioning, with often...
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Multidimensional deprivations among social groups in rural India: A state level analysis
Based on the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) Multiple Indicator Survey (MIS) data of 2020–2021, the present study has been carried out to...
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Social Pathology: The Great Social Isolation and Regressive Individuality
In recent decades, the citizen’s individual presence has become increasingly associated with phenomena of social pathology, with the most important...
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Social justice: a comparative cross-cultural perspective
Using print and electronic sources, this paper explored the pervasiveness of issues of implicit bias and social justice with supporting examples from...