Women have been the backbone of service provision for health and healing in the Native American community in the San Francisco Bay Area. The contributions of Native women are exemplified in the Women's Circle of the Native American Health Centers in San Francisco and Oakland. Women receive a broad range of services through the Women's Circle--in a coed residential substance abuse treatment faci...

A circle n-gon is the region between n non-crossing chords of a circle; the sides of a circle n-gon are either chords or arcs of the circle. A circle n-gon graph is the intersection graph of a family of circle n-gons in a circle. The family of circle trapezoid graphs is exactly the family of circle 2-gon graphs and the family of circle graphs is exactly the family of circle 1-gon graphs. The fa...

Abstract— Population characteristics and processes both are the drivers and results of social and economic development processes and outcomes. A community’s population characteristics like age, background, close circle, employment, education, use of drugs, family history, per capita income, locality, housing status etc. are of concern that influences various offences and offence levels in our s...

It is nonsense to describe Circle Health as a “John Lewis style social enterprise.”As theObserver has described in some detail, it is a loss making private business with financial arrangements that are far more complex than this article portrays. Staff shares amount to only 49% of the total number of shares, and the staff’s decision making powers are far less than even this suggests. It would h...

In recent years, social networking services have gained phenomenal popularity. They allow us to explore the world and share our findings in a convenient way. Event is a critical component in social networks. A user can create, share or join different events in their social circle. In this paper, we investigate the problem of event recommendation. We propose recommendation methods based on the s...

This critical review shows that, despite increasing attention to fathers in social work practice and research, men are still largely the 'unheard gender'. Almost all the social work literature that deals with men discusses them as fathers, namely in terms of their function in the family. Very little of it looks at men in other roles or situations or concerns itself with men's experiences, feeli...

of 48, of Dr. Brian McConnell, one of Bristol's best known and respected practitioner5, I He will be sadly missed by his very wide circle of friends and acquaintances, not oflb in the medical profession but in the broader social world beyond it. A personal friendship which was to last for over twenty years began during the v^f in a disused Cornish sea-side boarding house where, as fellow office...

This paper presents a summary analysis of observed case studies within two design network groups. Designers with different backgrounds created some artefacts which permitted to argument that design can be understood as a dialogue approach. The interaction among designers mediated by the artefact allowed to find cultural markers and a collaborative circle especially significant within the design...

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