Social Sciences

Although globalization and new advanced technologies have brought numerous benefits to humankind, they have also caused numerous concerns leading to the emergence of the first cryptocurrency Bitcoin after the global crisis of 2008. Despite the exponential growth of cryptocurrency use, scholarly research on this topic remained limited providing contradictory evidence.

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The Web is essential for education and e-learning. This situation has been boosted by migration to distance education due to the SARS-CoV-2. However, students with disabilities have been seriously affected because online teaching is very often not accessible. For this reason, this research aims to evaluate the accessibility of the home pages of the web portals of the Ecuadorian higher education institutions ranked in the Webometrics with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 of the World Wide Web Consortium.

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The lack of accessibility on websites can result in people with disabilities not accessing information online. Therefore, this research aims to create a process model for continuous web accessibility testing by adapting and customizing three methodologies: Deming cycle (Plan, Do, Check, Act), Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM), and Total Quality Management. The process model is composed of four phases.

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The broadening of the scope of application of the MARPOR ideological estimation method for South America resulted in positioning of Argentine, Brazilian and Chilean partisan manifestos further to the left than what is generally classified by specialists. Objective to assess the adequacy of the MARPOR standard method to estimate the ideological position of the manifestos of these countries, this study concluded that this presents inaccuracies in the construction of the RILE scale.

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Catalogue of Government Affairs Documents of Shanghai Archives

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The dataset contains hurricane Maria-induced outage duration at the barrio level derived from nighttime lights, along with the values of cofactors from socioeconomic and physical factors that influenced the recovery process. 

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