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Researchers have recognized that aspects of social justice are present in library efforts by acknowledging the importance of using library programs and services to promote social justice and the significance of social justice for the LIS field. However, while public libraries have indicated a strong interest in reaching underserved communities, they may not yet possess a thorough understanding of various aspects of social justice, especially the concepts of equity, engagement, and empowerment, despite the increasing focus on social justice's centrality in the library science field. This work-in-progress study presents a grounded theory analysis of twenty semi-structured interviews that were conducted as part of an existing study with library staff and their community partners (staff who work at organizations with which the libraries partner to offer outreach programs in the community). The analysis explores and unpacks practitioners' language to demonstrate a complex, multifaceted portrait of how these practitioners describe equity, engagement, and empowerment. These practitioners express both broad and individual approaches to this social justice work in an effort to offer equal treatment to the whole community while also recognizing individual barriers. Moreover, they underscore the importance of a role for the community to play in achieving their own goals and strengthening connections between community members and institutions. This analysis yields a critical semantic foundation of social justice concepts, situated in practitioner understanding and prior research in social justice.

Agricultural systems are embedded in wider social-ecological processes that must be considered in any complete discussion of sustainable agriculture. Just as climatic profiles will influence the future viability of crops, institutions, i.e., governance agreements, rural household and community norms, local associations, markets, and agricultural ministries, to name but a few, create the conditions that foster sustainable food systems. Because discussions of agricultural sustainability often overlook the full range of social dimensions, we propose a dual focus on a broad set of criteria, i.e., human health, labor, democratic participation, resiliency, biological and cultural diversity, equity, and ethics, to assess social outcomes, and on institutions that could support diversified farming systems (DFS). A comparative analysis of case studies from California's Central Valley, Mesoamerican coffee agroforestry systems, and European Union agricultural parks finds that DFS practices are unevenly adopted within and among these systems and interdependent with institutional environments that specifically promote diversified farming practices. Influential institutions in these cases include state policies, farmers' cooperatives/associations, and organized civic efforts to influence agroenvironmental policy, share knowledge, and shape markets for more 'sustainable' products. The Californian and Mesoamerican cases considers organic and fair trade certifications, finding that although they promote several DFS practices and generate social benefits, they are inadequate as a single strategy to promote agricultural sustainability. The complex governance and multifunctional management of Europe's peri-urban agricultural parks show unexpected potential for promoting DFS. Unless DFS are anchored in supportive institutions and evaluated against an inclusive set of social and environmental criteria, short-term investments to advance diversified agriculture could miss a valuable opportunity to connect ecological benefits with ...

November 22-23, 2018, Madrid, Spain ; Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment is a medical procedure to evaluate the physical, social and psychological status of elder patients. One of its phases consists of performing different tests to the patient or relatives. In this paper we present the challenges to apply Automated Planning to control an autonomous robot helping the clinician to perform such tests. On the one hand the paper focuses on the modelling decisions taken, from an initial approach where each test was encoded using slightly different domains, to the final unified domain allowing any test to be represented. On the other hand, the paper deals with practical issues arisen when executing the plans. Preliminary tests performed with real users show that the proposed approach is able to seamlessly handle the patient-robot interaction in real time, recovering from unexpected events and adapting to the users' preferred input method, while being able to gather all the information needed by the clinician. ; This work has been partially funded by the European Union ECHORD++ project (FP7-ICT-601116) and the TIN2015-65686-C5 Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad project. Javier García is partially supported by the Comunidad de Madrid (Spain) funds under the project 2016-T2/TIC-1712.

Coastal social-ecological systems (SES) are home to over 500 million people and one of the most productive and diverse ecosystems in the world. In recent years, coastal SES are experiencing severe threat from an increasing population, resource exploitation, and global environmental change (e.g. climate change), which have devastating societal impacts in coastal areas. Despite several global, national, and local initiatives, there is a growing consensus that coastal resources are depleting and increasing conflicts in coastal areas. Recognizing the global call to understand social–ecological interactions for implementing development practices, this special issue features a suite (seven) of articles advancing the understanding of the sustainability of social and ecological interactions within coastal areas through theoretical SES approaches and related analytical methods. In this editorial of this special issue, we also argued that coastal area needs to define from SES perspectives, which have received less attention compared to ecological and social perspectives. We hope that this special issue will stimulate the debate and further thinking of how coastal SES can be managed sustainably by conceptualizing and understanding the complex dynamics (interaction, feedback) of SES.

Developments in political education in the austrian school system in the national, european, international and global context. Possible potentials through the use of digital media. History and current situation of political education in austrian schools

This online experimental study examined the impact of viewing disclaimer comments attached to idealized social media images on 18- to 25-year-old American women's ( N = 164) body dissatisfaction, mood, and perceptions of the target. Furthermore, this study also tested whether thin ideal internalization or appearance comparison tendency moderated any effect. Viewing idealized images taken from social media had a negative influence on women's body image, with or without the presence of disclaimers. Disclaimer comments also had no impact on women's mood. They did, however, impact perceptions of the target, with women forming a less positive impression of the target if she attached disclaimer comments to her social media images. Thus, the results of this study suggest that the use of disclaimer comments or labels on social media may be ineffective at reducing women's body dissatisfaction.

The Swiss StudentLife Study (SSL Study) is a longitudinal social network data collection conducted in three undergraduate student cohorts (N1 = 226, N2 = 261, N3 = 660) in 2016−2019. The main goal of the study was to understand the emergence of informal student communities and their effects on different individual outcomes, such as well-being, motivation, and academic success. To this end, multiple dimensions of social ties were assessed, combining computer-based surveys, social sensors, social media data, and field experiments. The dynamics of these social networks were measured on various time scales. In this paper, we present the design and data collection strategy of the SSL Study. We discuss practical challenges and solutions related to the data collection in four areas that were key to the success of our project: study design, research ethics, communication, and population definition.

A fundamental feature in the evolution of social insects is the separation of castes, and the presence of wide differentiation between castes indicates a more advanced degree of sociability. In this study, we evaluated factors that indicate the reproductive status of females in colonies of the social wasp Polistes versicolor. The reproductive status of each female was examined by measuring nine morphometric characters, by the cuticular chemical profile, insemination and by her relative age. We conclude that in P. versicolor colonies there are 3 female groups that show cuticular chemical profile difference. The first group belong to females with ovarioles filamentous, typical of workers; the second is females with ovarioles intermediates; and the third is a group of queens, which are older females, inseminated and with greater degree of ovarian development found among all females. On the other hand, there was no significant morphological differences between these female groups. Therefore, although no significant morphological differences among females there are other factors such as the cuticular chemical composition that is an indicative of reproductive physiological condition of female in the colony.

FRONT COVER; BEYOND THE NATION-STATE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 THE WORLD POLITY AND POLITICAL CULTURE; THE WORLD POLITY AND THE DIFFUSION OF WORLD CULTURE; DECOUPLING AS NORMAL; DECOUPLING AND SOCIAL CHANGE; GLOBALIZATION AND NATIONAL POLITIES; DIMENSIONS OF GLOBALIZATION AND THEIR EFFECTS; THE DISPERSION OF CHARISMA; MODELS OF NATIONHOOD AND CITIZENSHIP: THE NATION-STATESOLCITIZEN MODEL; ''GUARDIAN STATES'': THE ROLE OF POLITICAL ELITES; NEW MODELS OF NATIONHOOD: FROM NATIONAL CITIZEN TO GLOBAL CITIZEN; FROM ''MELTING POT'' TO ''MOSAIC''

A nivel internacional, la economía social y solidaria ha cobrado relevancia en las últimas décadas por su potencialidad para contribuir a la generación de empleo, la inclusión social y el desarrollo de sus comunidades. Su capacidad de favorecer estos objetivos, sin embargo, se encuentra condicionada por la visión que posee el Estado nacional de la economía social y solidaria y el papel que las políticas públicas le asignan en la estrategia de lucha contra el desempleo y la exclusión social. En este marco, el artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación sobre las políticas públicas nacionales que incorporan referencias a la economía social y solidaria, vigentes en Argentina durante el período 2003-2013. La hipótesis de esta investigación plantea que las políticas públicas bajo análisis poseen una visión instrumental de la economía social y solidaria en la medida en que la incorporan por su contribución coyuntural a la creación de empleo e ingresos de la población en condiciones de exclusión. Los resultados de la investigación corroboran esta hipótesis y muestran cómo este enfoque restringe la efectividad de las políticas públicas de incidir de manera estructural en las condiciones socioeconómicas de las personas beneficiarias por un lado y, por otro, sobre la capacidad de la economía social y solidaria de impulsar procesos de transformación sociopolítica.

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Sicherungssysteme, Parteineigung.

Themen: Wichtigste Probleme in Deutschland; Parteipräferenz
(Sonntagsfrage); Einstellung zu einer Erhöhung bzw. Senkung der Steuern
und Beiträge zur Sozialversicherung zur Sicherung bzw. Reduzierung der
sozialen Sicherungssysteme; präferierter Umfang der Erhöhung bzw.
Senkung; vermutete Position der Parteien SPD, CDU, CSU, die Grünen, FDP
und PDS zu einer entsprechenden Erhöhung bzw. Senkung; Split 1:
Beurteilung des Reformvorschlages zur gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung,
dass alle gesetzlich Krankenversicherten einen gleichen Beitrag zahlen
sollen, unabhängig von der Einkommenshöhe (Gesundheitsprämie oder
Kopfpauschale); Parteien, die am ehesten diesen Reformvorschlag
vertreten; Beurteilung des Reformvorschlages, dass sich alle Personen
(auch Beamte und Selbständige) gesetzlich krankenversichern müssen und
alle einen gleichen Beitrag zahlen sollen, unabhängig von der
Einkommenshöhe (Bürgerpauschale); Parteien, die am ehesten diesen
Reformvorschlag vertreten; Beurteilung des Reformvorschlages, dass alle
Personen auf alle Einkommensarten einen bestimmten Prozentsatz als
Krankenversicherungsbeitrag zahlen sollen (Bürgerversicherung);
Parteien, die am ehesten diesen Reformvorschlag vertreten; Split 2:
Vertauschen der Abfragefolge von Bürgerversicherung, Kopfpauschale und
Bürgerpauschale; Parteien, die am ehesten für die Beibehaltung des
bisherigen Systems sind; Befragter ist in einer gesetzlichen
Krankenkasse versichert; Kenntnis der Summe des monatlichen
Arbeitnehmerbeitrages zur gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung; Einstellung
zu einer Aufnahme der Türkei in die EU; Parteien, die eine Aufnahme der
Türkei in die EU befürworten bzw. ablehnen; Selbsteinschätzung auf
einem Links-Rechts-Kontinuum.

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erstem Wohnsitz in Ostdeutschland); abgeschlossene Berufsausbildung;
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Haushaltsvorstands; Gesellenprüfung des Haushaltsvorstands;
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Haushaltsmitglieds; Konfession; Kirchgangshäufigkeit; Arbeitslosigkeit
und von Arbeitslosigkeit Bedrohte im Bekanntenkreis; Parteineigung und
Parteiidentifikation.

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