The interests of the public and both the medical and legal professions are best served when scientifically sound and unbiased expert witness testimony is readily available in civil and criminal proceedings. As members of the medical community, patient advocates, and private citizens, pediatricians have ethical and professional obligations to assist in the administration of justice. The American...

/ Watershed-based planning has been held as a vanguard for integrated ecosystem management based on a collaborative process. Watershed managers, however, must contend with conflicts that run much deeper than interests for economic development versus sustaining ecosystem health. With data from a survey of members of watershed organizations, we characterize the valued-based conflicts that watersh...

Community based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships simultaneously increase knowledge and community well-being. Despite the growing number of long-term (as opposed to project-specific) CBPR partnerships, has yet sufficiently explore factors that contribute their success sustainability over time. This study investigated this question by exploring perceived benefits, barriers, facilitators...

Members of modern society, being active media users, live and carry out professional, social or leisure activities with on the media, which changes previously usual ways forms how they realize their needs goals. In era digitization, various virtual communities are emerging, whose members focus practices knowledge creation, processing sharing. Virtual practice have received much attention from r...

Online communities are the gatherings of like-minded people, brought together in cyberspace by shared interests. The shared interest has hidden social capital aspects and can be of bridging or bonding type .Creating such communities is not a big challenge but sustaining member’s participation is. This study examines the formation and maintenance of social capital in social network sites. In add...

In this paper, we propose a novel super-agent-based framework for reputation management and community formation in decentralized systems. We describe this framework in the context of Web service selection where agents with more capabilities act as super-agents. These super-agents serve as reputation managers to maintain reputation information of services and share the information with other con...

Conflict is a dynamic and complex concept which takes a crucial part in students’ learning experiences, especially in learning communities underpinned with democratic pedagogy. Democratic pedagogies provide a base for emancipatory education by enabling students to participate in governance of their learning processes and so take responsibility for their own learning. In VLCs underpinned with de...

Community-Based Tourism (CBT) has been heavily promoted in Thailand, particularly rural communities. transforms the natural and culturally significant attractions of communities into consumer products. development also makes a direct connection between tourism community. Therefore, before starting project, interests local residents need to be investigated allowances made for their inclusion. Th...

In this study we work with a multi-arts organisation to assess the appropriateness of natural language processing methods for the analysis of audience behaviours and interests via Twitter. We investigate supervised and unsupervised topic modelling methods to investigate whether they can: i) capture the nuanced differences between art genres/forms; ii) characterise users according to their cultu...