BACKGROUND/AIMS Little is known about the possible effects of social resources on stroke survivors' level and change in cognitive outcomes. Understanding this association may help us identify strategies to improve stroke recovery and help elucidate the etiology of dementia. METHODS We examined the relationship of social ties and social support to cognitive function and cognitive change 6 mont...

An individual’s social network is straightforwardly the aggregate of relationships contracted with others, and social network analysis examines the differing structures and properties of these relationships. Such analysis has been applied by variationists fairly extensively over the last two decades or so to explicate informal social mechanisms supporting language varieties specific to particul...

The study was designed to analyze credit receipt and enterprise performance by small scale agro based enterprises in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was adopted in selecting 264 agro based enterprises and 96 agro based enterprises that accessed informal and formal credit respectively. The Heckman model was used to examine the factors affecting amount of inform...

【Keywords】Micro Credit (MC), social ties, information asymmetry, creditworthiness, Guatemala, 【JEL code】C25, D14, Q14 【Abstract】Who borrows Micro Credit (MC) is the information needed to improve not only MC programs but also policies of poverty alleviation. This paper analyzes the MC use determinants taking social ties into account using data in Guatemalan Living Standard Measurement Study. It ...

Research on social capital and health has assumed that measures of trust, participation, and perceived cohesion capture aspects of people's neighborhood social connections. This study uses data on the personal networks of 2707 Montreal adults in 300 different neighborhoods to examine the association of socio-demographic and social capital variables with the likelihood of having core ties, core ...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs Unpacking (in)formal learning in an academic development programme: a mixed-method social network perspective Journal Article How to cite: Rienties, Bart and Hosein, Anesa (2015). Unpacking (in)formal learning in an academic development programme: a mixed-method social network perspective. Copyright and Moral R...

Collaborative project delivery models (CPDMs) are increasing in popularity as infrastructure construction projects become more complex and grow scale scope. CPDMs build on high levels of trust, information exchange formal contractual relations, creating relationships between actors the network. The literature emphasizes procurement phase aspects CPDMs; however, few studies explicitly focus role...

introduction: problem statement: “sense of social belonging” is one of the human basic needs which is the outcome of social relationships and may have generally many impacts on social pathologies and specifically on local deviations. the aim of the present study is examining and identifying the relationship between municipality performance and citizenship commitments and sense of social belongi...

social learning and knowledge generation are two key factors to achieve successful natural resources co-management. social learning can be beneficial by broadcasting and transmitting experiences and problem solving ideas in a group of people. social learning networks can transmit knowledge and experiences from one node to another in the network. social learning can produce a suitable learning a...