Access the Unified Health System actions and services from the perspective of judicialization by Raquel de Souza Ramos, Antonio Marcos Tosoli Gomes, Denize Cristina de Oliveira, Sergio Corrêa Marques, Thelma Spindola, Virginia Paiva Figueiredo Nogueira

“…Method: qualitative study based on Social Representations Theory, involving 40 professionals, at a teaching hospital and at the center for the regulation of beds and procedures in Rio de Janeiro. …”
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Stretching the Elastic: UK Peace Activists’ Understandings of Social Change by Emma O’Dwyer, Neus Beascoechea Seguí

“…Informed by social representations theory, we conducted interviews with UK peace activists, to examine how they made sense of social change dynamics in the context of their activism, and how the beliefs, opinions, and perceptions of other people (meta-representations) were implicated in these understandings. …”
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Multi-Exposure Image Fusion Techniques: A Comprehensive Review by Fang Xu, Jinghong Liu, Yueming Song, Hui Sun, Xuan Wang

“…In recent years, with the further development of image representation theories such as multi-scale analysis and deep learning, significant progress has been achieved in this field. …”
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Social representations of sexuality developed by women in the context of Aids by Solange Gurgel Alexandre, Maria Lúcia Duarte Pereira, Raquel Santos Monte, Eysler Gonçalves Maia, Jemima Samela Marques Barbosa, Sammya Karla Borges Moura

“…This was a research with qualitative approach, based on Social Representations Theory, carried out in Fortaleza-CE, Brazil, with 44 women, 22 diagnosed with and 22 diagnosed without HIV/AIDS. …”
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Hvordan kan man lære lederskab by Poula Helth

“…The project is based on the assumption that too much of the social theory is unprocessual (Massumi 1997) and that leaders therefore have to learn to become more process oriented thorough their professional leadership training i.e. based on a non-representational theory, that is an approach to understanding the world where we to have to look at the how and not the what (Thrift 2008). …”
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The concept of a scale in accounting measurement by Saltiel Wedzerai Musvoto, Daan Gouws

“…This study compares the practices of accounting measurement with the principles of the representational theory of measurement to determine if the attributes of accounting phenomena are measured on well-founded scales. …”
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Social representations of oncological patients’ illness process under palliative care at home by Michele Rodrigues Matos, Rosani Manfrin Muniz, Michele Cristiene Nachtigall Barboza, Aline da Costa Viegas, Juliana Amaral Rockembach, Luiz Guilherme Lindemann

“…Moscovici’s Social Representations Theory and thematic analysis were used. Results: the process of becoming ill brings losses and restrictions in what concerns daily life and earning capacity. …”
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Fenomenologia in "prima" e in "terza" persona: Searle e Dennett critici di Husserl by Federica Buongiorno

“…This change leads to problematic consequences concerning mainly (i) the distinction between a mental act and its content, and the related criticism of the representational theory of mind; (ii) the Cartesian Theater argument and the related Homunculus argument as well as the claim that the notion of subjectivity needs to be dismantled; (iii) the rejection of the Unconscious. …”
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Neural representation of newly instructed rule identities during early implementation trials by Hannes Ruge, Theo AJ Schäfer, Katharina Zwosta, Holger Mohr, Uta Wolfensteller

“…These findings inform representational theories on how the prefrontal cortex supports behavioral flexibility specifically by enabling the ad-hoc coding of newly instructed individual rule identities during their first-time implementation.…”
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Perceptions of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among HIV-negative and HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) by Rusi Jaspal, Christos Daramilas

“…Data were analysed using qualitative thematic analysis and social representations theory from social psychology. The following three themes are discussed: (1) uncertainty and fear, (2) managing relationships with others, and (3) stigma and categorization. …”
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"Svag elev" som social representation i Statens offentliga utredningar by Therese Friberg

“…Through social representations theory, this study suggests that classifications and social representations of pupils as “weak” have been present during the last century. …”
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Social Representations of Insects as Food: An Explorative-Comparative Study among Millennials and X-Generation Consumers by Roberto Fasanelli, Ida Galli, Roberta Riverso, Alfonso Piscitelli

“…The aim of the research here presented is to describe and compare the social representations of entomophagy co-constructed and circulating among different groups of consumers. Social representations theory (SRT) allows us to understand a social reality that the individual builds based on his own experience in everyday life symbolic exchanges, whose primary function is to adapt concepts and abstract ideas using objectification and anchoring processes. …”
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Empowered but Endangered? An Analysis of Hegemonic Womanhood in Indian Gender Advocacy Campaigns by Keshia D’silva, Eemeli Hakoköngäs

“…By employing thematic analysis and conceptual tools of the social representations theory into the analysis of 250 gender advocacy videos published on YouTube, we answer the following questions: a) How are dangers to women in India discussed in recent video campaigns? …”
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Orientarsi tra le nuvole: cartografie, atlanti e pratiche mappanti nel racconto a fumetti by Giada Peterle

“…The proposed transdisciplinary approach is based on the encounter between geography and geocriticism, comics studies and post-representational theories in cartography. Through a ‘carto-centred’ reading of both Italian and international case studies, the comic book is interpreted as a map inolving author and reader in an orientation practice.…”
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TV Series Narration of Free Will and Activism of Human Agency Case Study; »Could Happen to You« Series by Mahdi Montazer Ghaem, Zohre Alikhani

“…Hence, a brief introduction of the concept in Islamic thought and its implications has offered at first, to recognize the implied conflict between absolute determinism and absolute discretion in the practical part of this research. Adopting representational theory approach, we have used a combination of discourse analysis approaches and Greimas actantial model to analyze the serial dialogs about free will and underlying structure of activism, respectively. …”
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Reflections on the Popularity of ‘Conspiracy Mentalities’ by Serge Moscovici

“…Specifically, Moscovici considers conspiracies as a form of counterfactual history implying a more desirable world (in which the conspiracy did not take place) and suggests that social representations theory should tackle this phenomenon. He explicitly links conspiracy theories to works of fiction and suggests that common principles might explain their popularity. …”
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Hybridity, Reflexivity and Mapping: A Collaborative Ethnography of Postcolonial Gameplay by Stephanie de Smale, Sybille Lammes

“…Drawing on postcolonial geography, science and technology studies (STS), non-representational theory and game studies, we argue that games, through their playful, explorative and emergent qualities, are a powerful means of rethinking and reimagining colonial (hi)stories in this postcolonial era (Lammes, 2009, 2010) including issues of spatio-temporality, cartography and the hybrid relation between women and machines.…”
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The Brain Dynamics of Linguistic Computation by Elliot eMurphy

“…Computational-representational theories are used as a guide in investigating the neurobiological foundations of the human ‘cognome’ – the set of computations performed by the nervous system – and new directions are suggested for how the dynamics of brain (the ‘dynome’) operates and execute linguistic operations. …”
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Presenting Archaeoacoustics Results Using Multimedia and VR Technologies by Till Rupert

“…It proposes that such integration of visual and sonic modelling using interactive digital technologies is effective as a non-representational theory approach to compliment empirical studies, allowing understanding that goes beyond numerical analysis and binary dialectics to engage directly with the material of archaeological sites in an embodied manner, and address the real-world complexities of acoustic ecologies and their contexts.…”
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Lebenswelt, Leiblichkeit und Resonanz: Eine raumphänomenologisch-rekonstruktive Perspektive auf Geographien der Alltäglichkeit by T. Dörfler, E. Rothfuß

“…In contrast to this proposition, the analytically endorsed and empirically examined theorems of phenomenology have recently been challenged by “post-phenomenology” and “non-representational theory”. These approaches raise – though both argumentatively and empirically unproven – their voice against pretended limitations of “classical” phenomenology in arguing with “imagined” limits of meaning and understanding. …”
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