Dissertations / Theses: 'Social sciences Science Social sciences Science'

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Gauthier, Roberto. "La représentation de la science chez les finissants de sciences humaines au collégial /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1995. http://theses.uqac.ca.

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Nadrowski, Karin, Daniel Seifarth, Sophia Ratcliffe, Christian Wirth, and Lutz Maicher. "Identifiers in e-Science platforms for the ecological sciences." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-101319.

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In the emerging Web of Data, publishing stable and unique identifiers promises great potential in using the web as common platform to discover and enrich data in the ecologic sciences. With our collaborative e-Science platform “BEFdata”, we generated and published unique identifiers for the data repository of the Biodiversity – Ecosystem Functioning Research Unit of the German Research Foundation (BEF-China; DFG: FOR 891). We linked part of the identifiers to two external data providers, thus creating a virtual common platform including several ecological repositories. We used the Global Biodiversity Facility (GBIF) as well the International Plant Name Index (IPNI) to enrich the data from our own field observations. We conclude in discussing other potential providers for identifiers for the ecological research domain. We demonstrate the ease of making use of existing decentralized and unsupervised identifiers for a data repository, which opens new avenues to collaborative data discovery for learning, teaching, and research in ecology.

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Olmos, Peñuela Julia. "Science-Society interactions in the social sciences and humanities:empirical studies of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/31653.

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Las interacciones entre los agentes del sistema de innovación son una pieza clave para el fomento del intercambio de conocimiento, los procesos de aprendizaje y el proceso innovador. El análisis de las interacciones entre universidades y organismos públicos de investigación (ciencia) y los agentes del entorno social (sociedad) ha recibido una gran atención en la comunidad científica, entre otras razones, porque los resultados de estas interacciones pueden tener implicaciones en el diseño de las políticas de ciencia e innovación y en la gestión de la organización. En esta tesis se analizan las interacciones entre los investigadores del área de ciencias sociales y humanidades (CCSSHH) y los agentes sociales, dado que es un colectivo que ha sido escasamente estudiado desde esta perspectiva y presenta características específicas respecto a otros ámbitos científicos. Los tres estudios que componen la tesis abordan aspectos diferentes del tema objeto de estudio y se basan en datos empíricos obtenidos mediante encuestas y entrevistas realizadas en el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). El primer estudio pretende averiguar si la utilidad del conocimiento producido en las CCSSHH es menor que en las STEM (acrónimo inglés para ciencia, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas), tal como los enfoques de las políticas científicas al uso parecen presuponer al establecer medidas basadas en indicadores difíciles de aplicar a este colectivo (licencias de patentes, contratos de I+D con empresas, creación de spin off). El análisis empírico realizado muestra que los resultados de las investigaciones en CCSSHH no son menos útiles que los de las STEM porque, en ambos casos, hay agentes sociales interesados en ellos. Sin embargo, se aprecia que el tipo de mecanismo de colaboración varía entre áreas del conocimiento, al igual que el tipo de agente social con el cual los investigadores interactúan. Las empresas predominan entre los agentes sociales con los cuales colaboran los investigadores de las STEM mientras que los de CCSSHH colaboran con un grupo más variado de agentes sociales (i.e. administraciones, organizaciones no gubernamentales, etc.). El segundo estudio explora en qué medida los grupos de investigación del área de CCSSHH se relacionan con una variedad de agentes sociales mediante cauces no formalizados. Para ello, se realizan dos análisis complementarios (cuantitativo y cualitativo). Los resultados obtenidos ponen de manifiesto que la mayoría de las relaciones no se formalizan institucionalmente, lo cual significa que la institución no las identifica, registra o valora. Sin embargo, la participación en este tipo de colaboraciones informales, que no tienen necesariamente una contrapartida económica, resulta atractiva por su coste relativamente bajo (en términos económicos y de tiempo), por la ausencia de condiciones restrictivas (p. ej. derechos de propiedad, confidencialidad) y por la existencia de beneficios intangibles para el investigador. El tercer estudio analiza en qué medida los grupos de investigación de CCSSHH interactúan con su entorno mediante diferentes actividades de transferencia de conocimiento (TC) ¿consultoría, investigación contratada, investigación conjunta, actividades de formación e intercambio de personal¿ e identifica los determinantes de cada una de ellas. Los resultados indican que las actividades de TC más frecuentes son la consultoría y la investigación contratada, mientras que el intercambio de personal representa una actividad marginal entre las analizadas. El estudio de los factores que determinan la participación en estas actividades de TC muestra que considerar el potencial uso social de los resultados desde el principio aumenta la participación de los grupos de investigación en todas las actividades de TC analizadas. En conjunto, los tres estudios permiten concluir que la investigación en CCSSHH produce conocimiento y resultados que son de interés para la sociedad. Sin embargo, se diferencian de otras áreas científicas en los mecanismos de interacción predominantes y en la variedad de agentes sociales con los que interactúan. Estas conclusiones pueden tener utilidad práctica para el diseño de políticas destinadas a fomentar el amplio conjunto de interacciones identificadas, para la mejora de las prácticas de gestión y para tratar de evaluar las citadas interacciones mediante indicadores capaces de recoger el amplio espectro de mecanismos identificados en esta tesis. Interactions among agents in the innovation system are critical for the promotion of knowledge exchange, learning processes and the innovation process. The analysis of interactions between universities or public research organisations (science) and social agents (society) has received great attention in the scientific community because, among other reasons, the results of these interactions can have implications for the design of science and innovation policies and organisation management. This thesis analyses the interactions between researchers in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) and social agents. The SSH community is a collective that has been little studied from this perspective and presents particular characteristics as compared to other scientific fields. The three studies included in the thesis address different aspects of the topic and are based on empirical data obtained through surveys and interviews conducted in the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). The first study explores whether the knowledge produced by the SSH is less useful than that produced in STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), as science policy seems to presume when establishing measures based on indicators (patent licenses, R&D contracts with companies, creating spin off) that are difficult to apply to the SSH community. The empirical analysis shows that SSH research outputs are no less useful than those from STEM because, in both cases, there are social agents interested in them. However, the preferred type of collaborative mechanism varies across fields, as does the type of agent with whom researchers interact. Firms are the prevailing type of agent collaborating with STEM researchers whilst SSH researchers collaborate with a varied group of social agents (i.e. government, NGOs, etc.). The second study explores the extent to which SSH research groups engage with a variety of social agents through non¿formalized collaborations. To do this, two complementary analyses (quantitative and qualitative) are conducted. Results show that most of the collaborations are not institutionally formalized, which means that the research organisation does not identify, record or value them. However, engagement in these informal collaborations, that do not necessarily have an economic counterpart, are attractive due to the relatively low cost (in time and economic terms) of many such activities, the absence of restrictive conditions (e.g. IPR, confidentiality) and other intangible benefits accruing to the researcher. The third study examines the extent to which SSH research groups interact with social agents through different knowledge transfer (KT) activities ¿consultancy, contract research, joint research, training and personnel mobility¿ and identifies the determinants of each. Results show that the most frequent KT activities are consultancy and contract research, while personnel exchange is a marginal activity among those analysed. The study of the factors determining the engagement in these activities shows that consideration of the social uses of the research outputs from the beginning enhances research groups¿ engagement in all the knowledge transfer activities analysed. Overall, the three studies support the conclusion that SSH research produces knowledge and outputs that are of interest to society. However, differences from other scientific fields are found in terms of the prevalent type of interaction mechanisms used and the variety of social agents with whom interactions are established. These findings may have practical utility for the design of policies aimed at encouraging and enhancing the range of interactions, for improving managerial practices and for the assessment of these interactions through indicators able to capture the type of interactions identified in this thesis. Olmos Peñuela, J. (2013). Science-Society interactions in the social sciences and humanities:empirical studies of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/31653 TESIS Premiado

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Mason-Wilkes, Will. "Science as religion? : science communication and elective modernism." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/109735/.

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My central concern in this thesis is how science should be understood by the public. I argue that science should be understood, and valued for, the formative aspirations of the scientific community. The formative aspirations of the scientific community are the values members try to uphold as members of the group, even when this is not always possible. These aspirations are constitutive of the scientific ‘form of life’. I argue that science and religion are distinct forms of life, and through their formative aspirations can be differentiated from one another. Drawing on the theory of Elective Modernism (Collins and Evans 2017), I argue that the formative aspirations of science overlap with democratic values. Media representations of science shape public understanding. Non-fiction television is a ubiquitous and trusted medium for the communication of science. Non-fiction science television programme makers were interviewed to understand the process of science television production: the pressures, tensions and constraints inherent to this process. I analyse representations of science in British non-fiction television programmes and argue that a ‘religious’ portrayal of science can be identified in some programmes. I identify a contrasting ‘secular’ portrayal of science in other programmes. The religious portrayal presents science as providing a definitive creation narrative. In this portrayal scientific knowledge is presented as a set of certain and immutable truths which are revealed by nature with little or no human intervention. In this portrayal science is presented as providing meaning. The secular portrayal’s representation aligns more closely with a sociological understanding of science. In this portrayal scientific knowledge is represented as requiring human skill to produce and as being subject to change, revision and debate. Science in this portrayal is represented as producing both positive and negative outcomes for society. From the perspective of Elective Modernism, if citizens are to properly understand, engage with and value science they need an understanding informed by sociological conceptions of science which emphasise science’s formative aspirations as its defining characteristic. The requirements for the production of an ‘elective modernist’ portrayal of science, one which foregrounds the formative aspirations of science, are discussed. The problematic consequences of the religious portrayal of science are laid out. Presenting science as a religion disguises its formative aspirations. This provides an inaccurate picture of how science works and a widespread (mis)understanding of science as a religion would undermine democratic society.

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Manco, Vega Alejandra. "Early career researchers and PhD students from the social sciences use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) for science communication: an affordances approach." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-332028.

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This research aims to understand the different practices and strategies early career researchers and PhD students from the social sciences have in Social Networking Sites (SNSs) for science communication in one particular country: Brazil. Following this purpose, the central research question is which are the motives and rationale of the researchers for using social networking sites for science communication. Two sub-questions arise from this general research question: How do practices and strategies relate to the academic system of this country? And How do the traditional science communication practices translate into the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS)? This research is empirically oriented building up on case studies in Brazil. This study makes use of the adaptation that Van Dijck (2013) made of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and the review of affordances of social media platforms (Bucher & Helmond, 2016) to apply it to the study of social media as the theoretical approach. The methodological approach of this research is qualitative, using both interviews and netnography as research methods. The primary motivations for using different Social Networking Sites are all related to connectivity: communication with peers, to the public and research subjects, updating themselves about their research issue, dissemination of research, availability of papers, self-branding and participation in interest groups are the most mentioned. These motivations translate into cross-posting practices and integrated communication strategies -combining online and offline elements- on the different Social Networking Sites. These motivations translate into perceived affordances all related to social affordances, therefore, social capital processes: availability, scalability, visibility and multimediality. The academic system of the country has remained unchanged as it privileges traditional scholarly academic formats; therefore, early career researchers and PhD students from the social sciences only use the different Social Networking Sites (SNS) as a side aid but not as a primary means of communication. Social media is underused as a means of public science communication, even though these platforms offer a lot of advantages for pursuing such issue. Traditional science communication practices translate into the use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs). The most important issue that came out in this report was the fact that social affordances provided by Social Networking (SNSs) are still required to be endorsed by real life meeting to start further collaboration and the fact that English is the preferred language for such issues.

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Chen, Chen. "Romantic Transfer: From Science to Social Ideologies." Thesis, Harvard University, 2017. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33052848.

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The transfer of learning is arguably the most enduring goal of education. The history of science reveals that numerous theories transfer from natural-science to the socio-political realm, but educational practitioners often deem such transfers romantic and rhetorical, ignoring the opportunities and challenges such transfers may hold. In terms of opportunities, romantic transfer encourages students to relate science to events in social life and further to discover new ways to understand social issues and propose social hypotheses. In terms of challenge, romantic transfers are often based on superficial and even imprecise understandings of science and depend on oversimplified labels and metaphors. In many cases, the romantic transfers are imaginative. Although logically romantic transfers are based on analogical resonance, empirically they are hardly proven to be valid. Nevertheless, when students imagine social and ideological implications of the hard science terminologies and theorems, they are at risk for considering the emergent ideologies as proven by hard sciences that are often considered authoritative, objective, and universal. Literal understanding of science-inspired by still unexamined ideologies can lead to maladaptive and even dangerous social actions. Because many of the romantic transfers are interdisciplinary and controversial, teachers may avoid explicit discussion about romantic transfer with students, and do not wish to assume responsibility of doing so. However, the question remains whether avoiding explicit discussion and debates about romantic transfer would inhibit students from spontaneously romanticize science concepts. This dissertation presents four studies that systematically investigate questions of romantic transfer—informal, emergent, and metaphorical boundary transections from natural science to social ideologies that often occur unexpectedly. My first study shows that participants who scored high in transferential thinking style also scored high in scientism beliefs and that participants who scored high on both tend to give literal interpretations to (religious) text. Following, my second study shows that students who reviewed the conservation of energy in physics are more likely to believe that luck is conserved, a naïve karmic religious idea. My third study shows that students are able to transfer spontaneously from theories in physics to more politically charged contexts. Specifically, students who learned the theory of entropy are more likely to prefer tightened social control, whereas students who learned self-organization theory are more likely to prefer stronger individual agency and relaxed social control. Study-4 involved interviews with the participants from Study-3 and shows that students’ narratives about social control are largely consistent with the thermodynamic concepts they have learned. Occasionally, students can critically evaluate the plausibility of their romantic transferences. This dissertation shows that science instruction implicitly empowers students to make social hypotheses and to engage in moral-civic-political discourse. To consider pedagogies that respond to such an opportunity without falling victim to hasty generalizations, we need both science and civic educations to equip students with the methods to examine self-generated social hypothesis. We also need pedagogies that promote the awareness and tolerance of metaphors to offset the dangers of literalism.

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Page, Arnaud. "Le social et les disciplines : Développement et institutionnalisation des sciences sociales à la london School of Economics and Political Science, 1895-1914." Pau, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PAUU1015.

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Cette thèse étudie les vingt premières années d'existence de la London School of Economics and Political Science (créée par le socialiste Fabien Sidney Webb en 1895) afin de contribuer à l'analyse du processus d'institutionnalisation des sciences sociales en Grande-Bretagne au tournant du vingtième siècle. La perspective privilégiée dans cette thèse est de replacer le développement de ces différentes formes de discoursdans leurs contextes professionnels. Situant son analyse au niveau non pas d'un penseur ou d'une discipline mais d'une école comme lieu concret d'enseignement et de production de savoirs, elle se propose d'étudier l'interaction entre les changements institutionnels et intellectuels. L'argument central qui parcourt ce travail est que si l'ambition initiale de Webb a parfois été interprétée comme procédant d'une volonté de s'opposer à l'étude plus traditionnelle qui prévalait à Oxford et Cambridge, la mise en œuvre de ce projet est marquée par de multiples lignes de continuité avec le travail développé dans les anciennes universités. Cette thèse s'attache ainsi à montrer la façon dont la création de cette école participe d'une reformulation (plutôt que d'un rejet) de l'idéal universitaire, marquée par l'intégration de l'idéal de recherche au sein d'une approche plus généraliste et "libérale". En étudiant quatre disciplines en particulier (science politique, économie, géographie et sociologie), ce travail s'attache surtout à montrer que la contribution de la LSE aux évolutions de l'étude du social se situe moins au niveau de grands projets théoriques et scientifiques qu'à celui d'une accumulation de décalages graduels dans les pratiques intellectuelle This dissertation studies the first twenty years of the London School of Economics and Political Science (founded in 1895 by Fabian Sidney Webb) to contribute to a better understanding of the institutionalisation of the social sciences at the turn of the twentieth century. The approach taken in this thesis is to locate the developments of these different types of discourse primarily in their professional contexts. Rather than analysing a particular thinker or a discipline, it focuses on a school as a concrete place of teaching and research, in order to analyse the interaction between institutional and intellectual changes. The central argument of this thesis is that if the initial project for the school has sometimes been interpreted as having been directed against the more traditional types of study which prevailed at Oxford or Cambridge, its actual developments were marked by the persistence of the concerns and approaches that characterized the analysis of social phenomena in the older universities. This dissertation argues that creation of the LSE was an important event in the reformulation (rather than the rejection) of the ideals attached to institutions of higher education in Britain, marked by the incorporation of the research ideal within a more general and liberal approach. It attemps to show how the contribution of the LSE to the transformations of the social sciences is to be found in a series of gradual intellectual and institutional shifts rather than in eleborate theoretical or scientific schemes

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Yu, Jingyuan. "Discovering Twitter through Computational Social Science Methods." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671609.

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Visibilitzant la vida quotidiana de la gent, Twitter s'ha convertit en una de les plataformes d'intercanvi d'informació més importants i ha atret ràpidament l'atenció dels científics. Investigadors de tot el món s'han centrat en les ciències socials i en els estudis d'Internet amb dades de Twitter com a mostra del món real, i en l'última dècada s'han dissenyat nombroses eines d'anàlisis i algorismes. La present tesi doctoral consta de tres recerques, en primer lloc, donats els 14 anys (fins a 2020) d'història des de la fundació de Twitter, hem assistit a una explosió de publicacions científiques relacionades, però el panorama actual de la recerca en aquesta plataforma de mitjans socials continuava sent desconegut. Per a omplir aquest buit de recerca, vam fer una anàlisi bibliomètrica dels estudis relacionats amb Twitter per a analitzar com van evolucionar els estudis de Twitter al llarg del temps, i per a proporcionar una descripció general de l'entorn acadèmic de recerca de Twitter des d'un nivell macro. En segon lloc, atès que hi ha moltes eines de programari analític que estan disponibles actualment per a la recerca en Twitter, una pregunta pràctica per als investigadors júnior és com triar el programari més apropiat per al seu propi projecte de recerca. Per a resoldre aquest problema, vam fer una revisió del programari per a alguns dels sistemes integrats que es consideren més rellevants per a la recerca en ciències socials. Atès que els investigadors júnior en ciències socials poden enfrontar-se a possibles limitacions financeres, vam reduir el nostre abast per a centrar-nos únicament en el programari gratuït i de baix cost. En tercer lloc, donada l'actual crisi de salut pública, hem observat que els mitjans de comunicació social són una de les fonts d'informació i notícies més accessibles per al públic. Durant una pandèmia, la forma en què s'emmarquen els problemes de salut i les malalties en la premsa influeix en la comprensió del públic sobre l'actual brot epidèmic i les seves actituds i comportaments. Per tant, decidim usar Twitter com una font de notícies de fàcil accés per a analitzar l'evolució dels marcs de notícies espanyols durant la pandèmia COVID-19. En general, les tres recerques s'han associat estretament amb l'aplicació de mètodes computacionals, incloent la recol·lecció de dades en línia, la mineria de textos, l'anàlisi de xarxes i la visualització de dades. Aquest projecte de doctorat ha mostrat com la gent estudia i utilitza Twitter des de tres nivells diferents: el nivell acadèmic, el nivell pràctic i el nivell empíric. Visibilizando la vida cotidiana de la gente, Twitter se ha convertido en una de las plataformas de intercambio de información más importantes y ha atraído rápidamente la atención de los científicos. Investigadores de todo el mundo se han centrado en las ciencias sociales y en los estudios de Internet con datos de Twitter como muestra del mundo real, y en la última década se han diseñado numerosas herramientas de análisis y algoritmos. La presente tesis doctoral consta de tres investigaciones, en primer lugar, dados los 14 años (hasta 2020) de historia desde la fundación de Twitter, hemos asistido a una explosión de publicaciones científicas relacionadas, pero el panorama actual de la investigación en esta plataforma de medios sociales seguía siendo desconocido. Para llenar este vacío de investigación, hicimos un análisis bibliométrico de los estudios relacionados con Twitter para analizar cómo evolucionaron los estudios de Twitter a lo largo del tiempo, y para proporcionar una descripción general del entorno académico de investigación de Twitter desde un nivel macro. En segundo lugar, dado que hay muchas herramientas de software analítico que están disponibles actualmente para la investigación en Twitter, una pregunta práctica para los investigadores junior es cómo elegir el software más apropiado para su propio proyecto de investigación. Para resolver este problema, hicimos una revisión del software para algunos de los sistemas integrados que se consideran más relevantes para la investigación en ciencias sociales. Dado que los investigadores junior en ciencias sociales pueden enfrentarse a posibles limitaciones financieras, redujimos nuestro alcance para centrarnos únicamente en el software gratuito y de bajo coste. En tercer lugar, dada la actual crisis de salud pública, hemos observado que los medios de comunicación social son una de las fuentes de información y noticias más accesibles para el público. Durante una pandemia, la forma en que se enmarcan los problemas de salud y las enfermedades en la prensa influye en la comprensión del público sobre el actual brote epidémico y sus actitudes y comportamientos. Por lo tanto, decidimos usar Twitter como una fuente de noticias de fácil acceso para analizar la evolución de los marcos de noticias españoles durante la pandemia COVID-19. En general, las tres investigaciones se han asociado estrechamente con la aplicación de métodos computacionales, incluyendo la recolección de datos en línea, la minería de textos, el análisis de redes y la visualización de datos. Este proyecto de doctorado ha mostrado cómo la gente estudia y utiliza Twitter desde tres niveles diferentes: el nivel académico, el nivel práctico y el nivel empírico. As Twitter has covered up people’s daily life, it has became one of the most important information exchange platforms, and quickly attracted scientists’ attention. Researchers around the world have highly focused on social science and internet studies with Twitter data as a real world sample, and numerous analytics tools and algorithms have been designed in the last decade. The present doctoral thesis consists of three researches, first, given the 14 years (until 2020) of history since the foundation of Twitter, an explosion of related scientific publications have been witnessed, but the current research landscape on this social media platform remained unknown, to fill this research gap, we did a bibliometric analysis on Twitter-related studies to analyze how the Twitter studies evolved over time, and to provide a general description of the Twitter research academic environment from a macro level. Second, since there are many analytic software tools that are currently available for Twitter research, a practical question for junior researchers is how to choose the most appropriate software for their own research project, to solve this problem, we did a software review for some of the integrated frameworks that are considered most relevant for social science research, given that junior social science researchers may face possible financial constraints, we narrowed our scope to solely focus on the free and low-cost software. Third, given the current public health crisis, we have noticed that social media are one of the most accessed information and news sources for the public. During a pandemic, how health issues and diseases are framed in the news release impacts public’s understanding of the current epidemic outbreak and their attitudes and behaviors. Hence, we decided to use Twitter as an easy-access news source to analyze the evolution of the Spanish news frames during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, the three researches have closely associated with the application of computational methods, including online data collection, text mining, complex network and data visualization. And this doctoral project has discovered how people study and use Twitter from three different levels: the academic level, the practical level and the empirical level.

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Kumlin, Terese. "Social science students’ perceptions of motivational methods and approaches in science class." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-36394.

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How to motivate students effectively is a question teachers have asked for thousands ofyears. In my teaching program at Malmö University, a variety of teaching methods andapproaches, that also increase motivation, have come into focus. These include:teaching at the right level, using a variety of teaching methods, seeing every student,being enthusiastic about the material, using formative evaluation, connecting lessons tostudents’ everyday life, and adapting classes to students’ interests. The aim of this studyis to find out how secondary students in a social science program perceive teachingmethods and approaches aimed at increasing motivation, and determine which methodsthey perceive as most/least effective. The study used both qualitative and quantitativemethods. 23 upper-secondary students from a class at a school in southern Swedenwere interviewed in four focus groups, where participants were purposefully sampled.10 of these students were also asked to complete a questionnaire ranking the teachingmethods and approaches on a scale of 1-7 (where 1 was most effective at increasingmotivation and 7 least effective), and the mean values of these scores were used in theanalysis. A phenomenological approach and content analysis were used to code andanalyze the data. Students perceived all of the motivational methods to be effective, themost effective being teaching lessons at the right level, followed by using a variety ofteaching methods, with mean values of 1.9 and 3.2, respectively. Adapting lessons tostudents’ interests and connecting them to everyday life were the least effective, withmean values of 5.6 and 5.7, respectively. The categories of teachers having a positiveattitude towards the material and the students, and seeing every student, had the samemean value, 3.8, while formative evaluation had a mean value of 3.9. When trying tomotivate students, it would thus appear more effective to make sure that lessons aretaught at the right level and that teachers vary the lessons, than to adapt lessons tostudents’ interests or connect the material to everyday life. While this was a small studyand the findings cannot be generalized to school populations, they are of high interestfor the researcher.

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Han, Chunhui. "Social gate: a new social accountable framework for computer networks." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66970.

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Internet is a tremendous success and is an indispensable part of our everyday activities. However, Internet does not provide sufficient integrity to ensure the end hosts accountable for the communication. In this thesis, we present a new social accountable framework for the Internet that leverages the trusted links found on online social networks to hold the people and organizations accountable for their actions. Our framework is incrementally deployable without modifying the operating systems or applications running on the hosts. We provide the full design and discuss how different types of applications can be mapped onto the proposed framework. A prototype of this social accountable framework is partially implemented to evaluate the performance of the framework. L'Internet est un succès extraordinaire et est une pièce indispensable de notre vie quotidienne. Cependent, l'Internet ne fourni pas assez d'integrité pour assurer que les hébergeurs finaux soient responsables pour les communications. Dans cette thèse, nous présentons un nouveau cadre social responsable pour l'Internet qui exploite les liens de confiance trouvés sur les réseaux sociaux pour tenir les utilisateurs et les organisations responsables pour leurs actions. Notre cadre se déploit de facon itérative sans la modification du système d'exploitation ou les applications qui y exécutent. Nous présentons le plan complet et élaborons comment différent types d'applications peuvent s'adapter au cadre proposé. Un prototype de ce cadre social responsable est partiellement mis en application pour évaluer sa performance.

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Chan, Ip Miu-kwan Rose. "The information structure in Hong Kong Form III integrated science and social studies textbooks." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B38626378.

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Larsson, Malin. "Laboratory Chemistry in Natural Science." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, Department of Teacher Education, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-3988.

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University level laboratory work is reformulated to fit into the chemistry andnatural science education in the upper secondary school of Sweden. This thesisdescribes how this reformulation is performed both from the chemical and thedidactic point of view. The resulting laboratory manual has been tested by studentsin the target group with positive response. Interest lay in how to presentlaboratory experiments far different from what they usually did and how it actuallyconnected to their studies in natural science. How much did attitudes andself-efficacy influence the implementation of the laboratory work and how didthe students collaborate? The author designed the laboratory work, observed animplementation of parts of the laboratory work through laboratory lessons in aschool class and made a follow-up interview with the teacher.

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Bartoszuk, Karin, Cecelia McIntosh, and Brian Maxson. "Integration and Synergy of Research and Graduate Education in Science, Humanities, and Social Science." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6174.

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Sweet, Christopher Pennington. "Science and educational research." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1990. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10018495/.

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At present the most powerful and influential groups in education see the solution to matters of educational concern as mainly falling within the province of an educational research which is fundamentally scientific. This thesis sets out to examine whether this assumption can be substantiated and, in the possible scenario that it cannot, to look at an alternative form of educational research. It begins with the philosophical arguments which support the view that educational research, where it is empirical, should be mainly scientific and continues by looking at what contemporary educational researchers have said about the nature of educational research. The role philosophy of education might take in this context is also examined. The thesis continues by looking at the prescribed methodology of educational research and examines the philosophical assumptions of such a methodology. It continues by looking at the major assumption of scientific endeavour which is that it is nomological. The conclusions drawn from the aforegoing are that, for various philosophical reasons, the notion that educational research can be founded on scientific method and applied through a process parallel to engineering is fallacious and needs to be reviewed. A review of the philosophical situation with regard to understanding human beings as would be necessary to understanding them in an educational context is undertaken in the fourth chapter. This marks the beginnings of an alternative, non-scientific, framework for educational research. A case is made for the thesis that individual actions are understood properly against a background of information which includes beliefs, intentions and historical circumstances. Consideration is then given as to how this might be put in such a way as to be of practical use in the deliberation of how to tackle educational issues. The final chapter outlines how a possible substantive piece of educational research might look.

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Klaus, Helmut. "Social Science Research Students' Conceptions Of Thesauri." Queensland University of Technology, 1998. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15916/.

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It is widely recognised that meaning and interpretation are fundamental aspects of user-system interaction in the retrieval of specialised information. Important constituents of information retrieval system are thesauri. To identify what understandings of thesauri exist, is crucial to improve instruction of database users and for an assessment of the functioning of thesauri in specialised information. Thesauri as phenomena can be viewed from a techno scientific perspective and a lifeworld perspective. The lifeworld perspective is made up of the collective understanding of those who use them. Lifeworld aspects of thesauri, i.e., how they are understood by social science researchers, have been disclosed by applying phenomenographic research against the background of the hermeneutical constitution of the online dialogue. The phenomenographic interpretative model has been used since its knowledge interest focuses on how techno scientific concepts are conceived of in the lifeworld. This has rendered descriptions of conceptions of thesauri in the form of two main categories: 1) the thesaurus as being separable from the database with the subcategories a) the thesaurus as a control device, and b) as incomplete terminology; 2) the thesaurus as being inseparable from the database with the subcategories of a) descriptors as evaluation criteria, and b) as search enhancers. Based on the configuration of the online dialogue, searching without understanding the thesaurus has also been described in the form of a third, 'empty' category and contrasted with the conceptions of thesauri. The findings represent a contribution to the hermeneutics of the online dialogue, and the results are immediately applicable for the development of discourses in the instruction of end-users and future information professionals. They also provide an empirical argument in support of further conceptual development of thesauri, which strives to make explicit the meaning of descriptors by incorporating terminological and epistemological knowledge, thus integrating domain knowledge into the database search process. The work contained in this thesis has not been previously submitted for a degree or diploma at any other higher education institution. To the best of my knowledge and belief, the thesis contains no material previously published or written by another person except where due reference is made.

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Li, Fu Min. "Collecting web data for social science research." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953492.

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Berthelot, Michèle. "La conception de la fonction sociale de la science chez des enseignants québécois de sciences du secondaire et du collégial." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29214.

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Bordianu, Gheorghita. "Learning influence probabilities in social networks." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114597.

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Social network analysis is an important cross-disciplinary area of research, with applications in fields such as biology, epidemiology, marketing and even politics. Influence maximization is the problem of finding the set of seed nodes in an information diffusion process that guarantees maximum spread of influence in a social network, given its structure. Most approaches to this problem make two assumptions. First, the global structure of the network is known. Second, influence probabilities between any two nodes are known beforehand, which is rarely the case in practical settings. In this thesis we propose a different approach to the problem of learning those influence probabilities from past data, using only the local structure of the social network. The method is grounded in unsupervised machine learning techniques and is based on a form of hierarchical clustering, allowing us to distinguish between influential and the influenceable nodes. Finally, we provide empirical results using real data extracted from Facebook. L'analyse des réseaux sociaux est un domaine d'études interdisciplinaires qui comprend des applications en biologie, épidémiologie, marketing et même politique. La maximisation de l'influence représente un problème où l'on doit trouver l'ensemble des noeuds de semence dans un processus de diffusion de l'information qui en même temps garantit le maximum de propagation de son influence dans un réseau social avec une structure connue. La plupart des approches à ce genre de problème font appel à deux hypothèses. Premièrement, la structure générale du réseau social est connue. Deuxièmement, les probabilités des influences entre deux noeuds sont connues à l'avance, fait qui n'est d'ailleurs pas valide dans des circonstances pratiques. Dans cette thèse, on propose un procédé différent visant la problème de l'apprentissage de ces probabilités d'influence à partir des données passées, en utilisant seulement la structure locale du réseau social. Le procédé se base sur l'apprentissage automatique sans surveillance et il est relié à une forme de regroupement hiérarchique, ce qui nous permet de faire la distinction entre les noeuds influenceurs et les noeuds influencés. Finalement, on fournit des résultats empiriques en utilisant des données réelles extraites du réseau social Facebook.

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Arnold, Robert V. "Theory, Method, and Democracy in the Social Sciences." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1212757204.

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Hatfield, Denise Truex. "Addressing second and third grade California science and social science content standards through environmental literature." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3056.

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In response to the federal legislation No Child Left Behind, schools across the country implemented required reading programs for classroom instruction. Open Court's Reading program meets this criterion for many schools. The text in Open Court Reading for grades two and three was evaluated for science and social science content standards that would be supportive of environmental education. Supplemental lessons from Project Learning Tree, Project WILD, and Project WET were identified.

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So, Moon-tong. "Applications of Bayesian statistical model selection in social science research." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39312951.

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Burrows, Andrea C. "A social study of women in contemporary biological sciences." Diss., This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-135540/.

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Tuckett, J. D. F. "A phenomenological critique of the idea of social science." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21785.

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Social science is in crisis. The task of social science is to study “man in situation”: to understand the world as it is for “man”. This thesis charges that this crisis consists in a failure to properly address the philosophical anthropological question “What is man?”. The various social scientific methodologies who have as their object “man” suffer rampant disagreements because they presuppose, rather than consider, what is meant by “man”. It is our intention to show that the root of the crisis is that social science can provide no formal definition of “man”. In order to understand this we propose a phenomenological analysis into the essence of social science. This phenomenological approach will give us reason to abandon the (sexist) word “man” and instead we will speak of wer: the beings which we are. That we have not used the more usual “human being” (or some equivalent) is due to the human prejudice which is one of the major constituents of this crisis we seek to analyse. This thesis is divided into two Parts: normative and evaluative. In the normative Part we will seek a clarification of both “phenomenology” and “social science”. Due to the various ways in which “phenomenology” has been invented we must secure a simipliciter definition of phenomenology as an approach to philosophical anthropology (Chapter 2). Importantly, we will show how the key instigators of the branches of phenomenology, Husserl, Scheler, Heidegger, and Sartre, were all engaged in this task. To clarify our phenomenology we will define the Phenomenological Movement according to various strictures by drawing on the work of Schutz and his notion of provinces of meaning (Chapter 3). This will then be carried forward to show how Schutz’s postulates of social science (with certain clarifications) constitute the eidetic structure of social science (Chapter 4). The eidetic structures of social science identified will prompt several challenges that will be addressed in the evaluative Part. Here we engage in an imperial argument to sort proper science from pseudo-science. The first challenge is the mistaken assumption that universities and democratic states make science possible (Chapter 5). Contra this, we argue that science is predicated on “spare time” and that much institutional “science” is not in fact science. The second challenge is the “humanist challenge”: there is no such thing as nonpractical knowledge (Chapter 6). Dealing with this will require a reconsideration of the epistemic status that science has and lead to the claim of epistemic inferiority. Having cut away pseudo-science we will be able to focus on the “social” of social science through a consideration of intersubjectivity (Chapter 7). Drawing on the above phenomenologists we will focus on how an Other is recognised as Other. Emphasising Sartre’s radical re-conception of “subject” and “object” we will argue that there can be no formal criteria for how this recognition occurs. By consequence we must begin to move away from the assumption of one life-world to various life-worlds, each constituted by different conceptions of wer.

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Mengistu, Dawit Bezu. "Social Science Studies and Experiments with Web Applications." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-78122.

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This thesis explores a web-based method to do studies in cultural evolution. Cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) is defined as social learning that allows for the accumulation of changes over time where successful modifications are maintained until additional change is introduced. In the past few decades, many interdisciplinary studies were conducted on cultural evolution. However, until recently most of those studies were limited to lab experiments. This thesis aims to address the limitations of the experimental methods by replicating a lab-based experiment online. A web-based application was developed and used for replicating an experiment on conformity by Solomon Asch [1951]. The developed application engages participants in an optical illusion test within different groups of social influence. The major finding of the study reveals that conformity increases on trials with higher social influence. In addition, it was also found that when the task becomes more difficult, the subject's conformity increases. These findings were also reported in the original experiment. The results of the study showed that lab-based experiments in cultural evolution studies can be replicated over the web with quantitatively similar results.

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von, Knorring Ulrika. "”Läser science fiction utan att skämmas” : Om kvinnors läsning av science fiction." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-19875.

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The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to investigate the female reader of science fiction literature, a genre by tradition dominated by men. Through qualitative interviews with seven female science fiction readers, the relation between the reading and the readers’ lives, as well as their concepts of the science fiction genre and the community of science fiction readers, was examined. The main theoretical framework used for the analysis was Yvonne Hirdman’s gender theory, Judith Butler’s concept of identity and Louise M. Rosenblatt’s transaction theory. Science fiction literature offers the female readers an opportunity to consider ethical and political issues, but it also gives them entertainment and experiences beyond the ordinary. Even though science fiction generally is described as progressive, the female readers often find it stereotyped in its gender representations. Being a woman reading science fiction means being an outsider in the science fiction community, as well as to women in general. The choice to read science fiction is therefore highly conscious, reflecting the respondents’ identities and their views of themselves as independent, open-minded and intellectual individuals.

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Bundrick, David R. "The development of a scale to identify college and university science professors' science-faith paradigms /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3091906.

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Villegas, Wilfred. "A trust-based access control scheme for social networks." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22020.

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The personal data being published on online social networks is presenting new challenges in sharing of this digital content. This thesis proposes an access control scheme called Personal Data Access Control, or PDAC, which allows users to share data among their friends, using a trust computation to determine which friends should be given access. This trust computation uses previous interactions among a user's friends to classify his or her peers into one of three protection zones, which determine whether that peer gains access to the user's data. Additionally, the user may designate certain friends as attesters who will aid the user in determining which peers are trustworthy enough to be given access to his or her data. Simulations of the PDAC scheme were performed to evaluate its effectiveness in enforcing data access privileges. The results show that PDAC preserves confidentiality by exploiting the trust that is captured in existing social networks. Les données personnelles publiées sur internet par l'entremise des nouveaux réseaux sociaux virtuels présentent des défis considérables en ce qui attrait à l'échange numérique. Cette thèse propose un système de contrôle d'accès appelé Personal Data Access Control, ou PDAC, qui permet aux utilisateurs d'échanger leurs données personnelles avec leurs amis de façon mesurée, en utilisant un calcul de confiance. Ce calcul de confiance utilise comme critères d'évaluation les interactions antérieures entre l'utilisateur et chacun de ses amis afin de classer chacune de ses connaissances dans une de trois zones de protection. Ces zones délimitent le niveau d'accès accordé aux données de l'utilisateur. De plus, l'utilisateur peut assigner certains amis come vérificateurs qui donnent leur approbation et ainsi détermine en toute confidentialité qui devrait avoir accès a ses données. Nos résultats d'analyse démontrent que le PDAC accorde privilèges d'accès aux données de façon efficace. Ces simulations démontrent aussi que le PDAC préserve la confidentialité en saisissant les niveaux de confiance qui existe dans les réseaux sociaux virtuels d'aujourd'hui actuels.

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Nourian, Arash. "CASTLE: a social framework for collaborative anti-phishing databases." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66989.

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A Phishing attack is a type of identity theft attempting to steal confidential and personal data like Credit Card or banking account information. Different approaches have been proposed to defeat phishing attacks. Most of the approaches rely on a database lookup approach. In this thesis, we present a framework called CASTLE that allows a collaborative approach to build and maintain the databases containing information needed for anti-phishing services. We provide the full design and discuss how phishing sites can be captured using CASTLE. A prototype of this social frame- work for collaborative anti-phishing databases is partially implemented to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of the framework against phishing attacks. L'hame¸connage est un type de vol d'identité qui tente de voler des donnés confidentielleset personnelles comme l'information de cartes de crédit ou de comptes bancaires.Plusieurs stratégies ont été proposées pour vaincre l'hame¸connage ; la plupart d'entreelles dépendent d'une base de données. Dans cette th'ese, nous présentons le cadreCASTLE, qui incite la collaboration pour construire et entretenir des bases de donnescontenant l'information nécessaire pour contrer l'hame¸connage. Nous fournissons laconception et discutons la mani'ere avec laquelle les sites de hameonnage peuventêtre capturés a l'aide de CASTLE. Un prototype de ce cadre est partiellement misen oeuvre pour évaluer la performance et l'efficacit du cadre contre les attaques dehame¸connage.

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Wang, Kang. "The design and implementation of a social accountability framework." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95206.

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We present an accountability framework for the Internet which ties a user's action to her identity on an online social network. The framework is optional in that users do not need to be accountable at all times, but various web services can force accountability on the part of their users by only allowing accountable users access. Our design is general enough that higher level applications can place additional policies/restrictions on the basic accountability provided. In this thesis, we introduce the design, discuss how various applications can be mapped onto our framework, and provide performance numbers from an experimental prototype. Nous présentons un cadre de responsabilisation pour l'Internet, qui lie l'action d'un utilisateur à son identité sur un réseau social en ligne. Le cadre est facultatif en ce que les utilisateurs n'ont pas besoin d'être responsables en tout temps, mais les services web différents peuvent envigueur responsabilité de la part de leurs utilisateurs en ne permettant l'accès que pour des utilisateurs responsables. Notre conception est suffisamment général pour que les applications de niveau supérieur peut placer d'autres politiques et les restrictions sur la responsabilité de base prévue. Dans cette thèse, nous présentons la conception, discutons comment les différentes applications peuvent être placés sur notre cadre, et fournissons des données de performance à partir d'un prototype expérimental.

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Byrne, Michael J. "An exploratory analysis of free will in the social sciences." Ashland University Ashbrook Undergraduate Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=auashbrook1304710552.

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Shepard, Pamela Ann. "The Use of Part-Time Faculty in Associate Degree Nursing, Social Science, and Biological Science Programs." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332403/.

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This study surveyed the opinions of academic administrators of associate degree nursing programs, community college social science programs, and community college biological science programs regarding major benefits and concerns associated with the employment of part-time faculty. This study found that most part-time social science faculty teach in the classroom, half participate in non-teaching faculty activities, and most are paid a contract amount per course or credit hour. Part-time biological science faculty differed only in that most teach a combination of classroom and lab/practicum. Part-time nursing faculty differed in all three areas. Most part-time nursing faculty teach in lab or practicum settings, most participate in more non-teaching activities than other part-time faculty, and most are paid an hourly wage. However, the benefits and concerns associated with the employment of part-time nursing faculty were not significantly different from those identified by academic administrators of the other programs with one exception. Academic administrators felt that part-time nursing faculty expose students to the latest technologies in specialty areas and part-time social science faculty do not. The benefits cited by the respondents, that were in addition to the benefits most frequently cited in the literature, include increased interaction with the community and the ability to "try out" prospective full-time faculty. The concerns cited by respondents, that were in addition to the concerns most frequently cited in the literature, include the inability to find qualified part-time faculty to fill available positions and the concern that the employment of part-time faculty causes resentment among full-time faculty. The results from this study indicate that the literature pertaining to the benefits and concerns associated with the employment of social science and biological science part-time faculty in community colleges can be used to develop policies regarding part-time faculty in associate degree nursing programs.

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Afandi, Misa Abdallah. "Pupils' interest in Science." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-32467.

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Abstrakt Syftet med detta arbete är att undersöka vad lärare kan göra för att motivera eleverna till NO- lektionen. Undersökningen syftar till att se om det finns skillnader mellan pojkars och flickors intresse för naturvetenskap. Detta examensarbete bygger på en intervjuundersökning som genomfördes i sjundeklass med åtta elever, fyra pojkar och fyra flickor. Undersökningen visade att läraren har stor betydelse för att väcka intresse hos eleverna. Detta sker genom att variera undervisningen efter elevernas behov. Undervisningen visade också att intresset för naturvetenskap skiljer sig åt mellan pojkar och flickor. Pojkarna är mest motiverade till kemiområdet, medan flickorna är mest motiverade till biologiområdet. Dessutom är flickorna mer intresserade av att välja NO-linje i gymnasiet.

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Loveless, Linda H. "Staff development training for implementing a history-social science curriculum." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/848.

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Shi, Yiwei. "A mobile device based identity validation system for online social networks." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107872.

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Currently, online social networks (OSNs) do not provide validation mechanisms to verify the identity of a user who is seeking linkage with another user. This shortfall is exploited by attackers to infiltrate other people's social circles to gain access to personal data. Therefore, building an identity validation system is necessary for protecting the user interest as well as enhancing the user experience.In this thesis I present an identity validation system---CredFinder for OSNs using commodity mobile devices. Three validation protocols are designed under different scenarios people may encounter. Targeted on Facebook, we propose an Android based prototypical implementation including three subsystems, the mobile device application, the validation server and the OSN application server. The implementation results demonstrate that CredFinder is capable of performing identity validation. To the best of our knowledge, CredFinder is the first mobile device based practical system against social network identity theft attacks. The validation strategy in our system gives users the power to connect their online and offline social networks together. Actuellement, l'expérience utilisateur des réseaux sociaux en ligne (Online Social Networks) est difficile lorsqu'un utilisateur a à valider des identités d'autres pour se connecter. Compte tenu des attaques rampantes de vol d'identité sur OSN, il est parfois difficile de distinguer si la personne à connecter sur OSN est celle qui l'utilisateur connaît-il dans la vie réelle. Pour cette raison, la construction d'un système de validation d'identité est nécessaire pour protéger l'intérêt des utilisateurs ainsi que pour améliorer de l'expérience utilisateur.Dans cette thèse, nous présentons un système de validation d'identité - CredFinder pour OSN développé en plate-forme des dispositifs mobiles. Trois protocoles de validation sont conçus pour faire face à différents scénarios que d'utilisateurs peuvent-ils rencontrer. Concernant Facebook, nous proposons une implémentation basée sur Android prototype composée par trois sous-systèmes: application de dispositif mobile, serveur de validation et serveur d'application OSN. Les résultats et les analyses de l'implémentation démontrent que CredFinder est à la fois efficace et efficiente pour accomplir la validation d'identité. Au meilleur de nos connaissances, CredFinder est le premier système réel basé sur appareil mobile contre les attaques de vol l'identité sur OSN. La stratégie de validation dans notre système donne aux utilisateurs ordinaires le pouvoir de connecter sur leurs réseaux sociaux en ligne et hors ligne.

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Ali, Bader. "Using social factors in sharing and usage control in online systems." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=97081.

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Digital media has become the preferred approach for producing, selling, and consuming information goods such as books, software, movies, and songs. Information objects produced in digital form can be easily modified, copied, and can be effortlessly distributed using the Internet. Today, online social networking systems have become one of the most popular ways for sharing and distributing content. Despite their growing popularity, many unsolved problems exist with regard to digital object distribution in online social networks. A key problem related to sharing of information goods is usage control of the shared good. Another problem related to usage control is digital rights management, where the usage conditions set by the content creator need to be enforced.In this thesis, we propose new solutions that leverage social factors in order to address the sharing control and rights management problems. In information sharing problem, the owner of a data object wants to share the object with another party in the social network and enforce usage conditions on the shared object. To address this problem, we propose a Social Sharing Control (SSC) scheme for information sharing in large-scale collaborative systems based on the risk involved in the sharing activity. The SSC utilizes game theoretic models for the sharing activities along with other factors in order to assess the sharing risk. Using simulation studies, we analyze the effects of the social network structure and evolution on the SSC scheme.In digital rights management, the content distributor wants to maintain control over the access and usage of the content. To deal with this problem, we propose Social Distribution Network (SDN) a novel distribution system that uses economic and social factors to incentivize the users to conform to copyright restrictions. SDN leverages ideas from group lending to encourage users to segregate into groups. The groups receive economic incentives in the form of discounts based on their purchase and piracy histories. We use utility based analysis to establish certain conditions that are necessary for proper functioning of the SDN. Also, using simulations, we examine the evolution of incentives with time under dynamic network conditions. Les médias numériques sont devenus le moyen le plus pratique et efficace de produire, distribuer et consommer des contenus tels les livres, les logiciels, les films et la musique. Les objets numériques peuvent être modifiés, copiés et redistribués très facilement à l'aide d'Internet. Le partage des fichiers numériques se fait de plus en plus par l'entremise des réseaux sociaux en ligne et ce, malgré plusieurs problèmes à cet égard. Parmi ces problèmes se trouvent le contrôle du contenu partagé et la gestion des droits numériques visant l'application de règles établies par le créateur du contenu en question.Cette thèse propose de nouvelles solutions utilisant des facteurs sociaux pour traiter les problèmes de contrôle de distribution et de gestion des droits numériques. Le problème du contrôle de la distribution des objets numériques survient lorsque le propriétaire d'un objet numérique veut partager cet objet avec un ou plusieurs tiers tout en gardant le contrôle sur l'utilisation de l'objet en question. À cet effet, nous proposons un système de contrôle du partage (dit "Social Sharing Control" ou SSC) permettant le partage des objets numériques basé sur les risques associés au partage. Le SSC calcule le niveau de risque associé au partage par la théorie des jeux, entre autre. À l'aide de simulations, nous analyserons les effets qu'ont la structure des réseaux sociaux et son évolution sur le SSC.Le problème de la gestion des droits numériques se pose lorsqu'un distributeur de contenu numérique cherche à contrôler l'accès et l'utilisation de ce contenu une fois distribué sur le réseau. Nous abordons le problème en proposant un réseau de distribution social (dit "Social Distribution Network" ou SDN) utilisant des facteurs économiques et sociaux pour inciter les utilisateurs à se conformer aux règles du droit d'auteur. Le SDN met à profit des idées provenant de la théorie des prêts de groupe pour encourager la formation de regroupements socio-économiques d'utilisateurs. Ces groupes ont droits à des rabais incitatifs basés sur les achats antérieurs et le taux de piratage parmi les membres du groupe. Nous utilisons l'analyse de fonction d'utilité pour établir des conditions nécessaires au bon fonctionnementdu SDN. À l'aide de simulations, nous examinons également l'évolution avec le temps des mesures d'incitation dans des réseaux dynamiques.

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Tang, Fugui. "A proximity determinable social pseudonym framework in online identity management system." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107858.

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Online identities play critical roles in the current Internet world. One of the virtues of traditional online identities, in forms of pseudonyms, is the privacy protection of online users. Users can create as many anonymous identities as they want with only an email account. However, the anonymity itself could be a limitation because of the lack of accountability.The prevalence of online social networks inspires us to create a social pseudonym framework through which it is possible to determine proximity between pseudonyms while retaining privacy. The basic idea of this work is mapping the online social network into a geometric space and assigning each user a coordinate according to the relationship with his/her neighborhood. The coordinate itself will not disclose any information of a user, but by computing the coordinates distance, proximity between users could be estimated with a certain probability. I evaluated the framework with several real online social network datasets. The results indicate that the proposed framework is promising under certain conditions. Dans le contexte d'Internet, les identifiants des usagers jouent un rôle critique. L'un des avantages des identifiants traditionnels, soient les pseudonymes, est de fournir une protection de la vie privée des usagers. Les usagers peuvent créer autant d'identifiants anonymes qu'ils le désirent simplement en utilisant une adresse courriel. Par contre, l'anonymité même peut devenir un facteur limitant dû à la déresponsabilisation des usagers. L'importance des réseaux sociaux en ligne nous inspire à créer un système de pseudonymes sociaux à travers lequel il sera possible de déterminer la proximité entre pseudonymes tout en conservant la confidentialité. Le système se base sur l'idée d'associer un réseau social à un espace géométrique et d'assigner des coordonnées à chaque usager qui dépendent de la relation entre l'usager et son voisinage. Les coordonnées elles-même ne fournissent aucune information confidentielle à propos d'un usager. Cependant, en calculant la distance entre différentes coordonnées, la proximité entre usagers peut être estimée avec une certaine probabilité. J'ai évalué le système avec des données provenant de réseaux sociaux réels. Les résultats indiquent que le système proposé, en imposant certaines conditions, est prometteur.

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Kim, Kwangsu. "Adam Smith : a relationship between metaphysics and science." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1994. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4236/.

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This thesis is basically in line with a common standpoint according to which Adam Smith's methodology deserves to be given the main priority in order to understand best his system of moral philosophy or `social science' in a modern sense. In this connection Smith's `metaphysics' is treated as an extremely important element to which our attention has to be drawn when we are concerned with his system of social science. This point of view differs primarily from an interpretative framework which seems to be still influential; a perspective from which a linkage between metaphysics and science is ignored. Instead, this work is based on the argument that metaphysics which may be defined as confirmable yet irrefutable (thus extra-scientific) doctrines is at work in the background of scientific activities in such as way that the former proposes an outline of scientific research in terms of providing a general outlook whereby a coherent type of data may be sorted out, arranged and organized. The `predominant' aim of this work on the basis of the view just mentioned is to seek a linkage between Smith's study of natural theology, which is responsible for providing an influential metaphysical doctrine, and other disciplines such as ethics and economics in his scheme of moral philosophy. I begin by identifying Smith's three metaphysical doctrines, the doctrine of mechanistic determinism, organismic philosophy, and the belief in a benevolent God (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 is designed to identify Smith's metatheoretical principles which, in conjunction with his metaphysics which is rooted in his theological outlook, serve to regulate or shape his `theoretical' analysis of man and society.

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Stanistreet, Paul J. "Hume's scepticism and the science of human nature." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1999. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7007/.

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The difficulty of reconciling Hume's use and endorsement of sceptical arguments and conclusions with his constructive project of founding 'a science of man' is perhaps the central interpretive puzzle of A Treatise of Human Nature. Hume has been interpreted as an entirely unmitigated sceptic about induction, causation, personal identity and the external world. His sceptical arguments emerge as apart of a naturalistic programme to explain fundamental human beliefs, but seem to call into serious question the viability of this programme. This work is an attempt to understand the relationship between Hume's sceptical arguments and his Newtonian ambition of founding a science of human nature. It defends two main theses: that Hume's sceptical arguments appear as steps in a more general and systematic argument the conclusion of which involves a causal explanation of scepticism itself; and that the scepticism of Book One of the Treatise is to be seen not as unmitigatedly destructive but as a part of the necessary preparation for the more robustly Newtonian investigations of Books Two and Three. Hume's sceptical arguments support the general conception he has of philosophy, and of its role and value, which emerges in the conclusion to the first book. I show that Hume's exposition of this conception is the conclusion of a complex and systematic dialectic. The work is divided into four chapters. In Chapter One, I examine Hume's commitment to the experimental method of reasoning and formulate a number of general theoretical principles which, I argue, guide the Newtonian investigations of the Treatise. I also assess Hume's understanding of what constitutes a good or adequate explanation in science. Chapter Two considers Part III of Book One. Here I emphasise the reflexiveness of Hume's extended account of the causal relation, acknowledging the constructive programme which leads Hume to formulate a set of normative rules for telling what is the cause of what. The remaining two chapters deal with Hume's main sceptical arguments concerning the attribution of identity over time to bodies and persons.

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Shrikumar, Aditi. "Designing an Exploratory Text Analysis Tool for Humanities and Social Sciences Research." Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3616576.

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This dissertation presents a new tool for exploratory text analysis that attempts to improve the experience of navigating and exploring text and its metadata. The design of the tool was motivated by the unmet need for text analysis tools in the humanities and social sciences. In these fields, it is common for scholars to have hundreds or thousands of text-based source documents of interest from which they extract evidence for complex arguments about society and culture. These collections are difficult to make sense of and navigate. Unlike numerical data, text cannot be condensed, overviewed, and summarized in an automated fashion without losing significant information. And the metadata that accompanies the documents – often from library records – does not capture the varied content of the text within. Furthermore, adoption of computational tools remains low among these scholars despite such tools having existed for decades. A recent study found that the main culprits were poor user interfaces and lack of communication between tool builders and tool users. We therefore took an iterative, user-centered approach to the development of the tool. From reports of classroom usage, and interviews with scholars, we developed a descriptive model of the text analysis process, and extracted design guidelines for text analysis systems. These guidelines recommend showing overviews of both the content and metadata of a collection, allowing users to separate and compare subsets of data according to combinations of searches and metadata filters, allowing users to collect phrases, sentences, and documents into custom groups for analysis, making the usage context of words easy to see without interrupting the current activity, and making it easy to switch between different visualizations of the same data. WordSeer, the system we implemented, supports highly flexible slicing and dicing, as well as easier transitions than in other tool between visual analyses, drill-downs, lateral explorations and overviews of slices in a text collection. The tool uses techniques from computational linguistics, information retrieval and data visualization. The contributions of this dissertation are the following. First, the design and source code of WordSeer Version 3, an exploratory text analysis system. Unlike other current systems for this audience, WordSeer 3 supports collecting evidence, isolating and analyzing sub-sets of a collection, making comparisons based on collected items, and exploring a new idea without interrupting the current task. Second, we give a descriptive model of how humanities and social science scholars undertake exploratory text analysis during the course of their work. We also identify pain points in their current workflows and give suggestions on how systems can address these problems. Third, we describe a set of design principles for text analysis systems aimed at addressing these pain points. For validation, we contribute a set of three real-world examples of scholars using WordSeer 3, which was designed according to those principles. As a measure of success, we show how the scholars were able to conduct analyses yielding otherwise inaccessible results useful to their research.

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Xu, Yijia. "Resisting whitewashing: a comparative study of fixed identity, pseudonym, and social identity." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106546.

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The Internet has broadened the meaning of identity. In real life, we normally have fixed identities. Earlier on the Internet, pseudonym was invented to identify users. As social networks came into play, social identity was introduced. While fixed identity is the most secure one, it restricts the freedom people have on the Internet. Although pseudonym is the easiest one to create among the three identity types, it makes it equally easy for malicious users to cheat on other people. One way malicious users can perform attacks on others with pseudonym is by whitewashing, where the malicious user takes advantage of the victim, with either pre-designed plots or simply by breaking pre-defined rules, and disappear on the network but later re-join the network with a new identity so that no one would know about his previous activities. Social identity differs from the other two by making use of the relations between two people and protecting both the individual user's privacy and the organization's security. This thesis studies the effect of whitewashing under different identity types and compares their behaviors of resisting whitewashing. We use game theory to model the process of whitewashing and compute its effect upon the whole population for each identity type. In most of the cases, social identity is better at eliminating whitewashers. Besides, the Matlab simulation experiments reveal additional interesting facts about the three identity types that might shed light on future identity management schemes. Le sens du mot "identité" s'élargit dans le contexte d'Internet. Dans la vraie vie, sauf dans des cas très particuliers, nous avons une identité fixe. Très tôt sur Internet, on a eu recours aux pseudonymes pour identifier les usagers. Avec l'évolution des réseaux sociaux est venue l'identité sociale ("social identity" en Anglais). Bien qu'elle représente le mode d'identité le plus sécuritaire, l'identité fixe impose des limites importantes qui la rendent difficile d'utilisation sur Internet. Parmi les trois modes d'identité, le pseudonyme est le plus facile à créer, mais il permet aussi aux usagers malveillants de facilement abuser de la confiance des autres. Suite aux actes malhonnêtes (arnaques ou non respect des règles établies, par exemple), un usager malveillant peut changer de pseudonyme pour blanchir son identité ("whitewashing" en anglais). Il disparaît donc du réseau pendant un certain temps pour réapparaitre plus tard sous une nouvelle identité aucunement liée à l'ancienne. L'identité sociale diffère de l'identité fixe et des pseudonymes en se basant sur les relations entre deux personnes tout en protégeant la vie privée de l'utilisateur et la sécurité de l'organisation.Cette thèse analyse les effets du blanchissage selon le mode d'identité utilisé et compare les différents comportements de résistance au blanchissage. La théorie des jeux est utilisée pour modéliser le blanchissage et calculer son effet sur la population pour chaque mode d'identité utilisé. Dans la majorité des cas, l'identité sociale est plus apte à éliminer les blanchisseurs. Des simulations Matlab révèlent aussi des faits intéressants au sujet des trois modes d'identité qui pourraient aider à l'élaboration de futurs systèmes de gestion d'identité.

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Harell, Allison. "The micro-story of multiculturalism: diverse social networks and the socialization of tolerance." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=19294.

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Does political tolerance have any limits? What must people "put up with" to be considered politically tolerant? In political science, tolerance has been conceived and measured as an absolute democratic value. The politically tolerant are willing to put up with everything and any objection to public expression is branded intolerant by empirical political science. This dissertation challenges this approach to the concept of tolerance. It demonstrates that civil liberties decisions in contemporary, multicultural democracies are increasingly complicated by values other than freedom of expression, such as social inclusion and non-discrimination. A more nuanced view of political tolerance is necessary. Drawing from comparative and critical race legal studies' of free speech, a theoretical distinction is developed between exclusionary expression and other types of objectionable speech. Exclusionary speech is defined as a form of public expression with the intent to exclude minorities from full participation in society. The focus is on rights denial, and such speech typically comes from more privileged social groups. This speech is argued to be fundamentally different from other types of speech. This theoretical distinction is examined empirically using the Comparative Youth Study, a survey conducted with 10th and 11th grade students in Belgium and Canada (n=9599). Results suggest that many young people in these countries do distinguish between exclusionary and other forms of speech when making civil liberties judgments. Young people who express tolerance for some forms of speech, but draw the line at exclusionary speech are considered to endorse a multicultural form of political tolerance. Multicultural tolerance is shown to be empiri Y a-t-il des limites à la tolérance politique? Faut-il que les gens supportent tous genres d'expression pour être considérés comme tolérants? En science politique, la tolérance a été conçue et mesurée comme une valeur démocratique absolue. Les personnes politiquement tolérantes doivent tout supporter et ne jamais restreindre l'expression publique d'aucune manière. Cette thèse remet en question cette approche de la tolérance. Elle démontre que dans les démocraties multiculturelles, les jugements sur les libertés civiques sont fortement compliqués par des valeurs autres que la liberté d'expression, comme l'inclusion sociale et la non-discrimination. Une perspective plus nuancée est nécessaire. En utilisant les perspectives comparatives et les études de critical race theory, une distinction théorique se développe entre les expressions d'exclusion et d'autres types d'expressions publiques. Les propos d'exclusion sont définis par l'expression publique d'idées qui ont pour but d'exclure les minorités de la pleine participation sociétale. Ces propos tendent à bafouer les droits et proviennent d'habitude de groupes sociaux plus privilégiés. Cette forme d'expression publique est considérée comme fondamentalement différente d'autres types d'expression. Cette distinction théorique est examinée avec l'Étude Comparative de la Jeunesse, une enquête présentée aux étudiants de IVème et Vème années de Secondaire, en Belgique et au Canada (n=9599). Les résultats suggèrent que dans ces deux pays, beaucoup de jeunes font la distinction entre les propos d'exclusion et d'autres formes d'expression lorsqu'ils portent des jugements sur les libertés civiques. Les jeunes qui sont capables de tolérer cert

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La, Cava Edward. "Mining for a Gilded Age: Social Media and Social Phenomena." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/253.

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Luo, Ming. "Learning from actuarial science : approaches to collectively optimising warranty policies." Thesis, University of Kent, 2018. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/67651/.

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This research starts from the comparison between warranty and insurance in their coverages, policies, data and, particularly, policy optimisation techniques. Based on abundant literature in related areas, the result of this comparison indicates that warranty policy optimisation can be improved by considering the application of the portfolio theory, dependence modelling and risk measures that are widely used in the actuarial science and the financial discipline. In the following chapters, Chapter 1 introduces the Importance of this research and lists its aim and objectives. Chapter 2 mainly conducts a critical and comprehensive literature review relating to warranty management and actuarial science and summarised the knowledge gaps identified. Chapter 3 establishes a collective warranty policy optimisation framework, with the benefits of the modern portfolio theory borrowed from the actuarial and financial disciplines and copulas from the probability and statistics. With progressing of this research, the disadvantage of the symmetric risk measure, variance, is uncovered in dealing with the extreme events. Chapter 4 proposes using two of the downside risk measures used in the financial discipline, Value-at-Risk and Conditional Value-at-Risk, into the optimisation of warranty policy and a new portfolio optimisation framework of warranty optimisation based on copulas. Chapter 5 investigates the interplay among the hardware, software and users of individual products under different scenarios relating to the warranty claims. Considering such an interplay, it then develops a more comprehensive framework for warranty policy optimisation. This fits the trend that that more and more products can be considered as a system composed of three subsystems: hardware, software and user subsystems and considers that the existing warranty policy optimisation methods in the literature merely focus on products composed of hardware systems. Even though the above chapters have developed warranty policy optimisation frameworks collectively and comprehensively, this research can also be improved in many aspects. As such, in Chapter 6, the sale volume modelling, renewing warranty policy optimisation and copula selection are discussed. Chapter 7 wraps up the research and discusses future research.

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Chen, Hsiu-ling. "Teacher planning : social studies teacher in Taiwan /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Almaatouq, Abdullah Mohammed. "Complex systems and a computational social science perspective on the labor market." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104577.

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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2016. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-109). Thesis: S.M.. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computation for Design and Optimization Program, 2016. Labor market institutions are central for modern economies, and their polices can directly affect unemployment rates and economic growth. At the individual level, unemployment often has a detrimental impact on people's well-being and health. At the national level, high employment is one of the central goals of any economic policy, due to its close association with national prosperity. The main goal of this thesis is to highlight the need for frameworks that take into account the complex structure of labor market interactions. In particular, we explore the benefits of leveraging tools from computational social science, network science, and data-driven theories to measure the flow of opportunities and information in the context of the labor market. First, we investigate our key hypothesis, which is that opportunity/information flow through weak ties, and this is a key determinant of the length of unemployment. We then extend the idea of opportunity/information flow to clusters of other economic activities, where we expect the flow within clusters of related activities to be higher than within isolated activities. This captures the intuition that within related activities there are more "capitals" involved and that such activities require similar "capabilities." Therefore, more extensive clusters of economic activities should generate greater growth through exploiting the greater flow of opportunities and information. We quantify the opportunity/information flow using a complexity measure of two economic activities (i.e. jobs and exports). by Abdullah Almaatouq. S.M.

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Smith, Patrick Steven. "Learning to Adapt: Online Social Science Instruction in Higher Education." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1089.

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Online learning is a rapidly growing phenomenon in post-secondary education. Institutions of higher learning have embraced online learning for its perceived merits, but without the consideration of how instructors deal with this different learning medium. Little is known of the extent to which different disciplines are suited to the online medium; this is pertinent to disciplines that rely on spontaneous in-person discussion. Furthermore, as colleges continue to invest heavily in online learning, instructors who only possess face-to-face teaching experience may begin teaching online. This poses a pedagogical challenge for instructors who are unfamiliar with the medium. This qualitative, in-depth interview study with ten social science instructors elucidates the process of transition from face-to-face teaching to online teaching. Through grounded analysis, a few key themes emerged. Respondents explain that teaching in the online classroom is qualitatively different from teaching in-person. The asynchronisity of the online classroom - which means students do not "meet", discuss, or learn at the same time - is a subtle yet significant difference between the two mediums. The asynchronous classroom means instructors relinquish control of when and where students will engage in study and discussion, and this requires students to have especially high self-regulatory skills. Respondents also explained that their online courses were several times larger than their in-person ones, with some courses allowing over twice as many students as an in-person course. Consequently, instructors must find new ways to approach teaching in the online medium. This pitfall of relying on old, obsolete methods in the online medium can be avoided if instructors are provided with the peer and pedagogical support of their professional peers, and access to teaching assistants to manage the greater time commitment of teaching online. In order to have a positive experience, online teachers must be willing to take on an intellectual challenge that may defy how they perceive themselves and their role in higher education. If instructors are open to a new intellectual challenge and possess the proper resources, they will become committed to teaching online and perceive the advantages of the medium to outweigh the disadvantages.

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Hinch, Steven W. "Stages of concern and frequency of use of computer-based resources by middle school social studies teachers /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9999298.

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Sager, Tore. "Communicate or calculate planning theory and social science concepts in a contingency perspective /." Stockholm : Nordplan, 1990. http://books.google.com/books?id=CAxPAAAAMAAJ.

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Duxbury, Catherine Louise. "Animals, science and gender : animal experimentation in Britain, 1947-1965." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19887/.

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This thesis is an historical analysis of the culture of science and its use of animals in experiments by the British military and in medical scientific research, and its regulation by law, during the period 1947 to 1965. The overall aim of this thesis is to demonstrate the gendered nature of scientific experimentation on animals in mid-twentieth century Britain. To do this, it addresses two aspects of animal experimentation; firstly, exploring how scientific research forms power-knowledge relations through the use of nonhuman animals. Secondly, this thesis analyses the intersection of animal use in science with that of the broader socio-cultural context, asking was science in mid-twentieth century Britain gendered? As a consequence, it explores the effects of this knowledge production upon animals and women. My findings are twofold: that the construction of scientific knowledge through the use of nonhuman animals was one that created subject-object binaries, and this had powerful and detrimental consequences for nonhuman animals. Secondly, this objectification of the nonhuman had resultant power-knowledge effects that reinforced the continuation of specific kinds of scientific knowledge and its associated masculinist ontology of positivism. Consequently, the effects of these power-knowledge relations were gendered and had implications for (and intersections with) normative representations of women at the time.

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Gärdemalm, Niemi Matilda, Öhrling Sara Rydberg, and Emma Stam. "Establishment of Technical Life Science Consulting Services in a Local Government Market." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-384571.

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This master thesis evaluates the possibility for Semcon AB to establish a business within the public sector of Uppsala. The need and prerequisites for technical life science consultant services has been investigated by interviewing experts in their field. The study is explanatory and contributes with an understanding of the current situation and the outlook for consultants in in the public sector, with Region Uppsala as the targeted customer. The results show that the need for consultants lies within IT, logistics, medtech, and construction. A consultant should preferably have a combination of these competences. Another possibility is to aid the public sector with the difficulties in specifying the requirements of a procurement. There are different ways of establishing a business with Region Uppsala. Either by a framework agreement, as a subcontractor, or by innovation procurement. One aspect of successful collaboration between a consultant company and the public sector is the attitudes toward consultants. The result indicates generally positive attitudes. Despite this a concern of knowledge disappearing when the assignment is finished exists. Therefore, transparency as well as constant feedback and evaluation is highly important.

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