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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractContextual Analyses of Attitudes toward Persons with Physical DisabilitiesChristopher M. Amissah, Christopher K. Gadosey, Kingsley Nyarko, Collins B. AgyemangSocial desirability bias associated with attitudinal research can be minimized through contextual analyses. This study assessed attitudes toward persons with physical disabilities in three social contexts: Dating, marriage and workplace. It also examined the effects of social contact on attitudes. Using a cross-sectional survey, 202 Ghanaians were purposively sampled to respond to the Disability Social Relations Generalized Disability (DSRGD) scale. … …Current Research in Psychology, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 8 Jan 2018 · 16,709 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractLove in Crisis? How Young Women’s Ideas and Experiences of Intimate Relationships are Reshaped by Conditions of Economic Austerity in GreeceJulia Kazana-McCarthyThis study seeks to examine intimate relationships and attitudes towards such ties, among Greek young women (n = 36). In the wake of challenging structural situations surrounding the effects of economic austerity in Greece, the accounts of these young women are understood with reference to their options on finding and sustaining intimate relationships. It is argued that these accounts are … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 16, Issue 1 · 1 Jan 2021 · 6,501 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTowards a Frame of Reference for Smart City Strategy Development and GovernanceZineb Korachi, Bouchaib BounabatDespite the importance of the smart city concept, few works address how to define and implement smart cities in a clear manner. Furthermore, the smart city literature provides heterogeneous studies and solutions; this heterogeneity creates misunderstanding regarding the smart city definition and strategy. Moreover, stakeholders have multiple and conflicting interests and concerns, which also increase the ambiguity regarding the smart … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 16, Issue 10 · 28 Oct 2020 · 7,216 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSupervised Machine Learning Model-Based Approach for Performance Prediction of StudentsAbdul Razaque, Abrar M. AlajlanPredicting students’ performance is one of the crucial issue for learning contexts, since it helps to develop alternative recommendation systems for academically weak students. Thus, several methods and practices have been applied for educational improvement. However, most of the existing methods do not determine the performance of the students. In this study, we have studied the execution of six machine … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 16, Issue 8 · 28 Aug 2020 · 7,089 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractData Warehouse Design to Support Social Media Analysis in a Big Data EnvironmentCarlos Roberto Valêncio, Luis Marcello Moraes Silva, William Tenório et al.The volume of generated and stored data from social media has increased in the last decade. Therefore, analyzing and understanding this kind of data can offer relevant information in different contexts and can assist researchers and companies in the decision-making process. However, the data are scattered in a large volume, come from different sources, with different formats and are rapidly … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 16, Issue 2 · 20 Feb 2020 · 8,229 accessesView PDFCite
Literature ReviewOpen accessIn the abstractWork-Family Conflict: A Synthesis of the Research from Cross-National PerspectiveFrancis AnnorChanging demographic trends occurring in the work and family spheres have made combining work and family responsibilities an increasingly challenging task for employees in virtually every nation. However, previous studies on work-family conflict have focused predominantly on Western and developed nations, with little attention to the experience of work-family conflict across different national contexts. Only recently have studies begun to … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 1 · 12 Nov 2015 · 8,083 accessesView PDFCite
Case ReportOpen accessIn the abstractSocial Psychology and Performative Interventions in Human Systems. The GENERATIVE MethodAlessio Nencini, Alessandro Meneghini, Marco PratiThe purpose of this paper is to describe the GENERATIVE method, a methodology for promoting change in human systems (i.e., contexts involving human interactions, such as organizations, communities, institutions). The first part of the paper is focused on the description of the interactionist and constructionist epistemological background adopted. The second is dedicated to the presentation of human systems as socially … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 1 · 29 May 2015 · 7,420 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractFinding What You Expect to See: Theoretical Modeling in PsycholinguisticsKathleen AhrensProblem statement: Theories of language processing rely upon experimental evidence to support or reject their hypotheses. Yet it is often the case that conflicting theories flourish alongside each other for decades, with voluminous experimental evidence to support their respective hypotheses. Approach: In this study, I suggest it is imperative for researchers to move beyond their own experiments and results to … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 3 · 18 May 2012 · 8,232 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractWorldviews in Isan-Thai StoriesJaruwan Thammawat, Pathom Hongsuwan, Wajuppa TossaProblem statement: This study aimed to investigate two-fold: To present worldviews in Isan-Thai Stories and to explain the connections between the worldviews and their societal contexts. Approach: Following the methodology of folklore studies, both oral and written versions of Isan-Thai stories were analyzed in order to find out their structures, contents, motifs and contexts. The 76 stories which were chosen … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2009 · 7,534 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDeep Learning Approach for Human Action Recognition Using Gated Recurrent Unit Neural Networks and Motion AnalysisNeziha Jaouedi, Noureddine Boujnah, Med Salim BouhlelHuman action recognition is a computer vision task. The evaluation of action recognition algorithms relies on the proper extraction and learning of the data. The success of the deep learning and especially learning layer by layer led to many imposing results in several contexts that include neural network. Here the Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) with hidden unit has demonstrated advanced … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 15, Issue 7 · 29 Jul 2019 · 8,023 accessesView PDFCite