These last years, main IT companies have build software solutions and change management plans promoting data quality management within organizations concerned by the enhancement of their business intelligence system. These offers are closely similar data governance schemes based on a common paradigm called Master Data Management. These schemes appear generally inappropriate to the context of co...

nowadays, the audience plays a key role in the interpretation of cultural products including movies. thus, discovering how the audience make sense of and interpret things can lead us to the social world underlying such interpretations. women are among audience who could have different readings based on their cultural and generational experiences and background. based on the interpretive paradig...

Stemming from a variety of methodological and practical needs and various degrees of understanding, the current practices in the field of intellectual capital (IC) reporting vary from case to case. Nevertheless, almost all of the IC models in use seem to prioritise the “measuring paradigm”, that is, the calculation, numbering, ranking, and quantification of IC and/or its sub-categories. We reit...

Despite many of the current social presence measures relying heavily on subjective post-test questionnaires, some researchers have identified the value of using online, behavioural measures. Gaze, and specifically mutual gaze, is known to be related to social perceptions of an interlocutor, as well as facilitating task performance during an interaction [1, 2, 17]. Second Life allows for the inv...

Over the last couple of decades, most neuroscientific research on social cognition has been dominated by a third-person paradigm in which participating subjects are not actively engaging with other agents but merely observe them. Recently this paradigm has been challenged by researchers who promote a second-person approach to social cognition, and emphasize the importance of dynamic, real-time ...

Impairments in social skills are central to mental disease, and developing tools for their assessment in mouse models is essential. Here we present the SocioBox, a new behavioral paradigm to measure social recognition. Using this paradigm, we show that male wildtype mice of different strains can readily identify an unfamiliar mouse among 5 newly acquainted animals. In contrast, female mice exhi...

Innovative and fruitful studies of social bonds have been developed in recent years, although the methods used to establish the existence of a social bond between two individuals have not evolved significantly. Two types of paradigms have been currently used: the separation-reunion paradigm, which evaluates the distress caused by the disruption of the social bond, and choice paradigms, which te...

Stress is a widely recognized risk factor for psychiatric and metabolic disorders. A number of animal models utilizing various stressors have been developed to facilitate our understanding in the pathophysiology of stress-related dysfunctions. The most commonly used chronic stress paradigms include the unpredictable chronic mild stress paradigm, the social defeat paradigm and the social depriva...

The concept of social capital is almost becoming a dominant paradigm in the understanding of the social world, gaining greater recognition among researchers and other development thinkers alike. In the UK, this concept, together with its synonyms like social networks, has equally found its expression in the urban environment, especially in the quest for a better understanding of urban regenerat...