Search results for "Social agents"
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Fractal geometry for measuring and modelling urban patterns
2007
Urban growth generates nowadays patterns, which look rather irregular. Planning policy regrets the lack of compactness and density of these agglomerations, but controlling urban sprawl turns out to be difficult. Obviously a new type of spatial organisation emerges, which is rather the result of a self-organisation process to which a high number of social agents contribute. In the present contribution we focus on the use of fractal geometry which turned out to be a powerful instrument for describing the morphology of these patterns. After an introduction about the context of research, fractal models are presented, which serve as reference models for better understanding the spatial organisat…
Integración de la salud laboral con medios propios como mecanismo de participación y activación cultural
2019
espanolEl objetivo de este estudio es evaluar la relacion entre los distintos sistemas de integracion de la salud y seguridad laboral (SSL) y la participacion los agentes sociales. Utilizando la Encuesta Nacional de Gestion de Riesgos Laborales en las Empresas de 2014 (n=3.162) se comparan los niveles de participacion (pasiva, activa y prospectiva) segun el sistema de integracion de la SSL (medios propios, ajenos o combinados), estimando las odds ratio (OR) y los intervalos de confianza del 95% (IC95%) mediante regresiones logisticas crudas y ajustadas. Los resultados obtenidos muestran como la gestion con medios propios y combinados presenta mayor prevalencia de participacion activa tanto …
La Vinculación Ciencia-Sociedad: Estereotipos y Nuevos Enfoques
2016
[ES]: La importancia social de la ciencia ha evolucionado notablemente desde mediados del siglo XX, dando lugar a un cambio en el enfoque y desarrollo de la actividad científica. En este contexto, se ha producido un aumento notable de los estudios que analizan en profundidad los procesos de intercambio y transferencia de conocimiento que se producen entre los investigadores y los agentes sociales, en gran medida para su promoción desde las políticas científicas e institucionales. Este artículo describe la evolución de los enfoques sobre las relaciones ciencia-sociedad y analiza los principales elementos de los procesos de intercambio y transferencia de conocimiento mediante un estudio empír…
Cambios políticos y Psicología en la Argentina
2006
This paper has the purpose of characterizing the narrations in the design of Psychology considering his theoretical and academicals debates; his applied institutions, the indications of systematic professional formation and the periodical publcations. Such narrations will be analized according to the political and economic changes that took place in Argentine, since 1900 to 1957, when the formation in psychology gets his universitary inscription in Buenos Aires University. The peculiar instability of the political, social and economic situation imposes constant reorientations to the different propositions connected to the political, social and economic behavior of the actor-subject. This co…
Semiautomatic Behavioral Change-Point Detection: A Case Study Analyzing Children Interactions With a Social Agent
2021
The study of human behaviors in cognitive sciences provides clues to understand and describe people’s personal and interpersonal functioning. In particular, the temporal analysis of behavioral dynamics can be a powerful tool to reveal events, correlations and causalities but also to discover abnormal behaviors. However, the annotation of these dynamics can be expensive in terms of temporal and human resources. To tackle this challenge, this paper proposes a methodology to semi-automatically annotate behavioral data. Behavioral dynamics can be expressed as sequences of simple dynamical processes: transitions between such processes are generally known as change-points. This paper describes th…