This article analyzes the construction of women in national ICT policies in South and Southeast Asia. The aim is to unravel the role ascribed to women in these policies and how this affects suggested measures. The research is based on critical discourse analysis and shows that women are mainly constructed as victims, mothers, or an untapped resource. We argue that if women are speciacally targe...

This paper seeks to provide an overview of higher education participation in Northern Ireland. The aims are to set out quantitatively, the main dimensions of participation located within a comparative United Kingdom (UK) context, to identify the main social characteristics of participation, to draw upon qualitative research evidence to contextualise the patterns identified and to briefly discus...

The new programme reflects the lobbying and interests of many interested parties, including national research councils, industry, professional organisations , and politicians. Over the past 20 years, EU research programmes have given increasing prominence to health. The new programme has health as its first " priority thematic area " , with a budget of 2.3 billion euro over six years. But almos...

The European Union is at a critical juncture in its history, not only in relation to the proposed constitution and planned enlargement, but also with respect to engagement with health and social issues. This publication provides an overview of health policy development within the European Union and the implications for Finnish health policies. Health is currently on the agenda in several sphere...

Online Social Networks (OSNs) offer access control mechanisms to protect users’ sensitive information from undesired accesses. Yet, their information is still vulnerable to disclosure when their friends assign conflicting privacy policies: a user prohibits everyone from accessing his own content or profile but his friends allow others to see it. OSNs tend to select Permit-Take-Precedence when r...

Ever since the foundational work of social psychologists Asch (1987) and Milgram (1974) there has been a great deal of interest in the influence on behaviour of perceptions of ‘normal’. In social marketing, this has led to the development of the social norms approach (Cialdini and Goldstein, 2004), a marketing technique that attempts to influence behaviour by changing perceptions of what is nor...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the Quality of Life (QOL) in parents of children with developmental diseases as compared to other severe neurological or psychiatric disorders. Aims of the present study were: to evaluate QOL in parents of children affected by Pervasive Development Disorder (PDDs), Cerebral Palsy (CP) or Mental Retardation (MR) as compared to a control group (CG); to evaluate QO...

the nomad communities played an important role in the socio-economic status of the iranian society from the beginning of the twentieth century. following the political events of reza shah such as settling strategy, the nomads lost their importance and marginalized. the present paper aims study the social and cultural transitions among the turkman tribe to find out how settling strategy led to t...