Living Communities

Living wills and religious communities.

Does Living in Rural Communities Rather

Institut national de santé publique du Québec I ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This study is an initiative of the Quebec public health association (ASPQ) and could not have been completed without the financial support of the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (MSSS). The authors would especially like to thank Renald Bujold, President of the ASPQ, for having initiated this study, and the f...

Engaging communities to create active living environments.

In 2010, the Active Living Research (ALR) conference theme was " Engaging Communities to Create Active Living Environments. " This theme was based on the idea that getting a sedentary nation moving is a job for all of us. Research can help empower communities, just as data from scientific studies gives empowered communities ammunition in policy debates. The conference program highlighted ways w...

Relationships between environmental variables and free-living nematode communities in seasonally flooded wetlands

The Lo Go-Xa Mat is a national park in the southeastern region of Vietnam, which has a particularly high biodiversity and it includes different wetlands which are unique diverse in species composition. It can be categorized into two types: temporarily-seasonally and permanently flooded wetlands. Ta Not grassy marsh is representative of the seasonally flooded wetland. Whilst the diversity and ec...

Living memory: agent-based information management for connected local communities

We investigate the application of multi-agent systems to develop intelligent information interfaces for connected communities, a class of computer applications aimed at enhancing the way people interact and socialise in geographically co-located communities such as neighbourhoods. In this context, we study the problem of providing effective information management in support of social interactio...