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This open access book focuses on a particular but significant topic in the social sciences: the concepts of “footprint” and “trace”. It associates these concepts with hotly debated topics such as surveillance capitalism and knowledge society. The editors and authors discuss the concept footprints and traces as unintended by-products of other (differently focused and oriented) actions that remain empirically imprinted in virtual and real spaces. The volume therefore opens new scenarios for social theory and applied social research in asking what the stakes, risks and potential of this approach are. It systematically raises and addresses these questions within a consistent framework, bringing together a heterogeneous group of international social scientists. Given the multifaceted objectives involved in exploring footprints and traces, the volume discusses heuristic aspects and ethical dimensions, scientific analyses and political considerations, empirical perspectives and theoretical foundations. At the same time, it brings together perspectives from cultural analysis and social theory, communication and Internet studies, big-data informed research and computational social science. This innovative volume is of interest to a broad interdisciplinary readership: sociologists, communication researchers, Internet scholars, anthropologists, cognitive and behavioral scientists, historians, and epistemologists, among others.

Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Internet --- Social sciences --- Ethnology. --- Communication. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse. --- Internet Studies. --- Social Theory. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Media and Communication. --- Epistemology. --- Traces and Footprints --- Algorithms and Social Research --- Knowledge Capitalism --- Digital Traces --- Social Theory --- Trace-like Information --- Interactional Clues --- Data Exhaust --- Social Media Communication --- Unintended Consequences --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Traces and Footprints --- Algorithms and Social Research --- Knowledge Capitalism --- Digital Traces --- Social Theory --- Trace-like Information --- Interactional Clues --- Data Exhaust --- Social Media Communication --- Unintended Consequences

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Fintech has become one of the most popular topics among policymakers and experts. It usually comes with the qualifier “disruptive”. Thus, the hype is easy to understand: fintech would upend the financial system due to its disruptive nature, as it would allow financial services to be completed faster, cheaper, and more efficiently. Indeed, many have predicted that the remittances market was on the verge of being disrupted as remittances are considered too costly while remittance service providers inefficient, opaque, and outdated. Therefore, there seems to be no better setting for assessing the allegedly disruptive effects of fintech. Against that background, this paper investigates how those predictions have fared so far. Contrary to expectations, it found that instead of disrupting incumbents fintechs have increasingly been entangled with them. Therefore, not only there is no evidence of disruption, but it is unlikely to occur in the foreseeable future. Even so, the paper argues that fintechs play an important role in the remittances market.

Macroeconomics --- Economics: General --- Remittances --- Globalization: Economic Development --- General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- Pension Funds --- Non-bank Financial Institutions --- Financial Instruments --- Institutional Investors --- Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation --- Technological Change: Choices and Consequences --- Diffusion Processes --- Economic & financial crises & disasters --- Economics of specific sectors --- Currency crises --- Informal sector --- Economics

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This open access book focuses on a particular but significant topic in the social sciences: the concepts of “footprint” and “trace”. It associates these concepts with hotly debated topics such as surveillance capitalism and knowledge society. The editors and authors discuss the concept footprints and traces as unintended by-products of other (differently focused and oriented) actions that remain empirically imprinted in virtual and real spaces. The volume therefore opens new scenarios for social theory and applied social research in asking what the stakes, risks and potential of this approach are. It systematically raises and addresses these questions within a consistent framework, bringing together a heterogeneous group of international social scientists. Given the multifaceted objectives involved in exploring footprints and traces, the volume discusses heuristic aspects and ethical dimensions, scientific analyses and political considerations, empirical perspectives and theoretical foundations. At the same time, it brings together perspectives from cultural analysis and social theory, communication and Internet studies, big-data informed research and computational social science. This innovative volume is of interest to a broad interdisciplinary readership: sociologists, communication researchers, Internet scholars, anthropologists, cognitive and behavioral scientists, historians, and epistemologists, among others.

Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Internet—Social aspects. --- Social sciences—Philosophy. --- Ethnology. --- Communication. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse. --- Internet Studies. --- Social Theory. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Media and Communication. --- Epistemology. --- Traces and Footprints --- Algorithms and Social Research --- Knowledge Capitalism --- Digital Traces --- Social Theory --- Trace-like Information --- Interactional Clues --- Data Exhaust --- Social Media Communication --- Unintended Consequences --- Internet --- Social sciences --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy.

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Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United States over the last four decades. Employing a price index that appears appropriate for low income households, we show that poverty has not declined materially since the 1980s and even increased for the young. We then analyze which social and economic factors help explain the extent of poverty in the U.S. using probit, tobit, and machine learning techniques. Our results are threefold. First, we identify the poor as more likely to be minorities, without a college education, never married, and living in the Midwest. Second, the importance of some factors, such as race and ethnicity, for determining poverty has declined over the last decades but they remain significant. Third, we find that social and economic factors can only partially capture the likelihood of being poor, pointing to the possibility that random factors (“bad luck”) could play a significant role.

Macroeconomics --- Economics: General --- Poverty and Homelessness --- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics --- Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data --- Measurement and Analysis of Poverty --- Government Policy --- Provision and Effects of Welfare Program --- Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General --- Macroeconomics: Consumption --- Saving --- Wealth --- Aggregate Factor Income Distribution --- Technological Change: Choices and Consequences --- Diffusion Processes --- Economic & financial crises & disasters --- Economics of specific sectors --- Poverty & precarity --- Machine learning --- Poverty --- Consumption --- National accounts --- Poverty measurement --- Income --- Technology --- Currency crises --- Informal sector --- Economics --- United States

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The present Special Issue summarizes the available scientific evidence concerning the nutrients and biomarkers in musculoskeletal diseases linked to the metabolic conditions secondary to COVID-19 confinement, osteoporosis prevention for patients with inflammatory bowel diseases, and the nutritional status in patients with spinal muscular atrophy. Furthermore, it explores the novel findings for experimental animal models of pharmacological agents to improve the regeneration of muscle tissue; acetylcholine spontaneous release located in the neuromuscular junction in mice, secondary to hypercaloric diet supplementation with an increase in spontaneous neurotransmission and the activation of myofascial trigger points associated with myofascial pain syndrome; and myogenic biomarkers in musculoskeletal conditions and gene expression associated with vitamin D and L-cysteine co-supplementation. This Special Issue is edited by a multidisciplinary group comprising the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Universidade da Coruña, and Universidad Europea de Madrid.

Humanities --- Social interaction --- COVID-19 --- acute sedentary lifestyle --- step reduction --- positive energy balance --- metabolic consequences --- insulin resistance --- metabolic syndrome --- sarcopenia --- bowel diseases --- diet --- osteoporosis --- bone density --- nutrients --- muscle unloading --- muscle reloading --- sirtuin-1 --- muscle progenitor cells --- activated satellite cells --- quiescent satellite cells --- muscle regeneration markers --- electromyography --- high-fat diet --- myofascial pain syndrome --- obesity --- spontaneous neurotransmission --- vitamin D deficiency --- l-cysteine --- glutathione --- myogenic markers --- dystrophy markers --- skeletal muscle --- spinal muscular atrophy --- metabolomics --- nutrition --- therapeutics --- biomarkers --- n/a