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The big data agenda : data ethics and critical data studies
"This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic contemporary overview of the field of critical data studies that reflects on practices of digital data collection and analysis. The book assesses in detail one big data research area: biomedical studies, fo…
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- 9781911534754
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- vi, 148p. : ill.
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- 005.7 RIC b
Understanding perspectivism : scientific challenges and methodological prospects
This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the view called perspectivism in the philosophy of science. The book brings together an array of essays that reflect on the methodological promises and scientific challenges of perspectivism in a variety of fields such as physics, biology, cognitive neuroscience, and cancer research, just for a few examples. What are…
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- 9781315145198
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- x, 200p. : ill.
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- 501 UND u
Knowledge manageation and big data : implications for sustainability, policy …
The evolution of knowledge management theory and the special emphasis on human and social capital sets new challenges for knowledge-driven and technology-enabled innovation. Emerging technologies including big data and analytics have significant implications for sustainability, policy making, and competitiveness. This edited volume promotes scientific research into the potential contributions k…
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- 9783039280094
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- IX< 402 p.
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- 300.285 LYT k
Managing social research: a practical guide
The recent Commission on the Social Sciences (2003) found it difficult, if not impossible to define social science other than in the broadest terms. 'In essence, then, we have come to see the social sciences as about "disciplined curiosity about societies in which we all live", leading to the creation and sharing of social knowledge.' The Commission felt the term social science was a misnomer …
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- 9780415355162
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- xi, 180 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- Social research today (Routledge (Firm))
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- 301.072 TAR m
Gender and STEM : understanding segregation in science, technology, engineeri…
This volume features thirteen original chapters on the causes and consequences of gender segregation in scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematics (“STEM”) occupations and fields of study. Although women have made great strides in equalizing access to labor markets and higher education, many STEM fields—particularly in the physical sciences and engineering—remain strongholds of…
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- 9783038971474
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- ix, 271p. : ill.
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- 510.71 GEN g
Transforming research methods in the social sciences: case studies from South…
editors, Sumaya Laher, Angelo Fynn and Sherianne Kramer.
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- 9781776143559
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- xiv, 442 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- 300.721 LAH t
Instructional scaffolding in STEM education : strategies and efficacy evidence
This book uses meta-analysis to synthesize research on scaffolding and scaffolding-related interventions in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education. Specifically, the volume examines the extent to which study quality, assessment type, and scaffolding characteristics (strategy, intended outcome, fading schedule, scaffolding intervention, and paired intervention) influe…
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- 9783319025650
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- xi, 144p. : ill.
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- 510.71 BEL i
The globalization of knowledge in history : based on the 97th Dahlem Workshop
Today scientific, technological and cultural knowledge is shared worldwide. The extent to which globalized knowledge also existed in the past is an open question and, moreover, a question that is important for understanding present processes of globalization. This book, the first volume of the series "Studies" of the "Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge," th…
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- 9783844222388
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- 866p. : ill.
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- 001.01 GLO g
Perspectives for the Next Generation of Virus Research: Spearheading the Use …
Infectious diseases are associated with approximately 20% of global mortality, with viral diseases causing about one third of these deaths. Besides newly emerging and re-emerging viral infections will continue to pose a threat to human survival globally. In this case scientific advances have greatly been increased to defend against those pathogens. For example, rapid genomic sequencing, proteom…
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- 9782889452156
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- 192p.: ill.
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- 616.01 YAM p
Interpretive social research : an introduction
This volume is a clear introduction to methods of data collection and analysis in the social sciences, with a special focus on interpretive methods based on a logic of discovering hypotheses and grounded theories. The chief methods presented are participant observation, open interviews and biographical case reconstruction. The special advantages of interpretive methods, as against other qualita…
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- 9783863953744
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- 246p. : ill.
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- 301 ROS i
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