Introduction to Gender and Wellbeing in Microeconomics

Affect and Wellbeing: Introduction to Special Section

THERE is still so much we do not know regarding how our emotional lives play out in digital experiences and how the design of systems, interfaces and interaction shape our emotions. How can technology support psychological wellbeing? How can we at least make sure that it does not hinder it? The majority of the research trying to address these questions seems to focus on identifying the problems...

: metadiscourse in introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics research articles: exploring variation in frequency and type

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...

Wellbeing, independence and mobility: an introduction

1 An introduction to conversation and gender

This book showcases cutting-edge research and current thinking by researchers writing on topics at the intersection of conversation analysis and gender. Work in this area has advanced rapidly over the past decade, and this edited collection provides the fi rst comprehensive, book-length treatment of the fi eld. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the chapters illustrate author...

An Introduction to Inference and Learning in Bayesian Networks

Bayesian networks (BNs) are modern tools for modeling phenomena in dynamic and static systems and are used in different subjects such as disease diagnosis, weather forecasting, decision making and clustering. A BN is a graphical-probabilistic model which represents causal relations among random variables and consists of a directed acyclic graph and a set of conditional probabilities. Structure...