Social network services (e.g., Twitter and Facebook) can be regarded as social sensors which can capture a number of events in the society. Particularly, in terms of time and space, various smart devices have improved the accessibility to the social network services. In this paper, we present a social software platform to detect a number of meaningful events from information diffusion patterns ...

A global Web services to support the delivery of service -based economy have had a tremendous impact on the web as a potential silver bullet. However , despite the excellent progress of a web rate has been significantly lower than anticipated at the beginning of their uptake. The isolation of services, the lack of social relationships among related services, inadequate trade-offs between the ex...

Social networking (SNW) services such as Facebook and MySpace are growing exponentially. While many people are spending an increasing amount of their time on the services, others use them minimally or discontinue use after a short period of time. This research is asking the question: What are the salient factors influencing individuals to continue using and extending the range of SNW services a...

This paper reports on the Partnership Initiative in Nursing and Social Services (PINSS), a project that placed community nurses within social services Assessment and Care Management Teams (ACMTs) within two Social Services Departments (SSDs) within the East Midlands. The project aimed to assess the impact of the nurses on the social services environment and the parallel effects on the nurses of...

BACKGROUND The quality of social and emotional wellbeing services for Indigenous families of young children is not known, in many settings especially services provided by primary care centers. METHODS Our primary objective was to assess delivery of social and emotional wellbeing services to the families of young (3-11 months) and older (12-59 months) Indigenous children attending primary care...

BACKGROUND Previous research has identified elevated social adjustment and frequent religious attendance as protective against depression. The present study aims to examine the association of frequency of religious services attendance with subsequent depression, while accounting for the effects of social adjustment. METHOD Participants were 173 adult offspring of depressed and nondepressed pa...

The crucial role of biodiversity in the links between ecosystems and societies has been repeatedly highlighted both as source of wellbeing and as a target of human actions, but not all aspects of biodiversity are equally important to different ecosystem services. Similarly, different social actors have different perceptions of and access to ecosystem services, and therefore, they have different...

BACKGROUND Provision of early intervention services has increased the rate of social recovery in patients with first-episode psychosis; however, many individuals have continuing severe and persistent problems with social functioning. We aimed to assess the efficacy of early intervention services augmented with social recovery therapy in patients with first-episode psychosis. The primary hypothe...

BACKGROUND Social issues have prominent effects on the peoples' physical and mental health and on the health risk factors. In Iran, many organizations provide social care services to their target population. This study aimed to explore the roles and functions of Primary Health Care (PHC) system in providing social care services in Iran. METHODS This was a qualitative study, for which data wer...