| Топ-10 конкурентоспособных городов мира в 2020 году
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 Москва, 22 января - "Вести.Экономика". Эксперты Китайской академии социальных наук и UN-HABITAT опубликовали отчет Global City Competitiveness Report (2019-2020), в рамках которого был составлен рейтинг самых конкурентоспособных городов мира. Экономическая конкурентоспособность городов оценивалась как способность города использовать свои экономические преимущества и ресурсы для привлечения инвестиций, создания социальных ценностей и предоставления благосостояния своим жителям. Ниже мы ...
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| contexts 1 million: we hit our goal!!!!
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 A few months ago, I announced our goal at Contexts: reach 1 million clicks + downloads for 2019. In 2018, we barely missed the goal – 993k clicks and downloads. This year? We made it!!! We just got our data analytics for 2019 and we hit our mark – and then some. Rahsawn and I only have one goal – to bring the best sociology to the public. And little by little, it's working. So please – assign Contexts, download Contexts and share Contexts. ++++++++ BUY THESE BOOKS!! 50+ chapters of grad skool advice goodness: Grad Skool Rulz ($4.44 – cheap!!!!) Intro to sociology for just $1 per chapter – INSANE BARGAIN!!!!! A theory book you can understand!!! Theory for the Working Sociologist (discount code: ROJAS – 30% off!!) The rise of Black Studies: From Black Power to Black Studies Did Obama tank the antiwar movement? Party in the Street Read Contexts Magazine– It's Awesome!!!!
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| 'Love hormone' improves attachment issues in people with autism
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| Oxytocin, often dubbed the 'love hormone', is known to promote social bonding. Researchers at KU Leuven have now discovered that administering oxytocin to adult men with autism makes them more open to close emotional bonds with others. The hormone has positive long-term effects as well. The researchers published their findings in the journals Molecular Autism and Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
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| Visits to pediatricians on the decline
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 Commercially insured children in the US are seeing pediatricians less often than they did a decade ago, according to a new analysis led by a pediatrician-scientist at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. But whether that's good or bad is unclear, the researchers say in the study, published today in JAMA Pediatrics.
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| How human social structures emerge
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 What rules shaped humanity's original social networks? The earliest social networks were tightly knit cultural groups made of multiple biologically related families. That single group would then develop relationships with other cultural groups in their local area. Researchers used statistical physics and computer models common in evolutionary biology to explain the origin of common community structures documented by cultural anthropologists around the world.
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| На кого учатся иностранцы в российских вузах
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 Специалисты Министерства науки и высшего образования России поделились данными о том, на кого учатся в России иностранные студенты. Выяснилось, что большинство из них хотят стать юристами, экономистами или экспертами по международным отношениям, сообщает Ura.ru. В топ-5 самых востребованных также попали такие направления, как "Менеджмент" и "Лингвистика". Кроме того, по одному человеку проходят обучение искусству народного пения, публичной политике, социальным наукам, конфликтологии, лазерной технике. Обучающиеся на специалитете предпочли стоматологию, лечебное и таможенное дело, пишет News.ru.
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