The nature of the enterprise and working is rapidly changing. Recognizing the enabling competitive advantage of new social and participative technologies will transform the enterprise. Web 2.0 is the foundation of the new Enterprise 2.0. By accessing the right information at the right time, Enterprise 2.0, through a web of interconnected applications, services, and devices, provides capabilitie...

“S ocial media is a generalized term for a group of online software tools that allow for increased interaction, authorship, and development of online content by any web user” (Kuhns, 2012, p. 4). Social media include the well-known sites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, but also wikis, blogs, microblogs, podcasting, and other social networking and social bookmarking sites (see Figure 1...

social health is important to be assessed as a dimension of health. the aim of study was to determine domains and sub-domains of individual social health of iranians.this study was carried out with a qualitative approach, using thematic content analysis. twenty five experts participated in interviews, using individual semi-structured interviews between november 2010 and june 2011.this data supp...

ECONOMIC and social development policies both aim at improving the welfare of the population, though they often appear to compete with rather than complement each other. This is especially true for emerging nations, whose limited resources impose a degree of austerity upon the satisfaction of the collective economic demands of their citizens. In such circumstances, social security provisions ma...

Nanobiotechnologies represent a rapidly growing field of interest. Several European conferences during the past year have highlighted the wideranging potential of applying techniques at the molecular and atomic levels to understand and transform biosystems, and of using biological principles and materials to create new devices at the nanoscale. This convergence of disciplines holds great promis...

In the matter of financial literacy it is often supposed that more is automatically preferable to less. This paper considers to what extent this may be true generally, and specifically focuses on the case of investment forecasting skill (a significant component of an individual’s financial literacy). We show that the while improved forecasting skill can increase an individual’s own utility, the...

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