introduction : body is a phenomenon not only biological, but social and cultural and today as signs of personal and cultural identity, that can be socially built so its construction and function are a state of social and cultural beliefs. researchers believe that the body and culture do not exist apart from each other, and the embodiment of body goes to people`s culture and society in which liv...

Mobile phones are a pervasive platform for opportunistic sensing of behaviors and opinions. We show that location and communication sensors can be used to model individual symptoms, long-term health outcomes, and diffusion of opinions in society. For individuals, phone-based features can be used to predict changes in health, such as common colds, influenza, and stress, and automatically identif...

Case: A 55-year-old woman with a history of seizures and submandibular stones, presented with dysphagia. Five days prior to presentation, she woke up with urine in her bed, headache, and confusion consistent with prior nocturnal seizures; however that morning she had difficulty swallowing solids, accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Over the next few days, her symptoms worsened to include mild d...

The article investigates the theoretical and practical aspects of main parameters state self-government structures, its interaction in process formation development state, separation from society. authors make a general description local government, social sphere. Attention is paid to issues relations between institutions society, human citizen’ rights freedoms. objective factors relationship p...

Theorisation and debate have been going on around the concept of civil society literally for centuries and ‘civil society theory’ could be understood as an umbrella term for the body of theorisation which has emerged. However, the term is used here in a more restricted sense to refer to the contemporary production of an ideological discourse through which academic theory is recycled as the poli...

The idea of civil society contains a set of assumptions about the unity of civil society, the civility of civil society, the ‘separateness’ of civil society and the state, and the intrinsic relationship between civil society and democracy. All of these assumptions can be questioned by examining civil society in a specific country context. In the case of Ghana, processes in civil society have al...

Social accountability is increasingly invoked as a way of improving health services. This article presents a theory-driven qualitative study of the context, mechanisms and outcomes of a social accountability program, Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), implemented by World Vision (WV) in Zambia. Primary data were collected between November 2013 and January 2014. It included in-depth interviews and ...

This paper takes Lebanon as a case study to examine the relationship between human development and immigration. It examines this issue from both ends: the sending and the receiving countries. The author suggests that by developing the concept of a diasporic civil society and a diasporic public sphere, a significant aspect of the relationship between human development and immigration is illumina...