Civic Maces

CIVIC Entrepreneurship

Civic Intelligence and CSCW

Civic intelligence is a form of existing — and potential — collective intelligence that is dedicated towards the reconciliation of problems that affect society collectively. The civic intelligence perspective has helped spawn various frameworks and models that can be used to inform CSCW analysis and design. This paper examines the particular relevance of civic intelligence to CSCW and discusses...

Civic Engagement, Adulthood

COHABITATION Cohabitation is defined by social scientists as two adults of the opposite sex living together in an intimate, nonmarital relationship. Cohabitation has rapidly become a prominent feature on the landscape of American family life. Using the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), Kennedy and Bumpass (2007) estimated that 58% of women aged between 25 and 29 had cohabited at som...

Civic Driven Change

Building civic health.

KEY WORDS heat shock proteins; cytokines; heat shock factor t has become clear in recent years that, heat shock proteins (hsps) play a major role in the acute in-flammatory response and inflammatory diseases. 1,z Heat shock proteins were originally characterized as a highly conserved group of proteins involved in the response of cellular organisms to stresses such as heat shock. 3,4 These prote...