Objective: To compare the effects of a neuromuscular exercise program (ENM) with respect to municipal (EM) on physical condition older adults in community. Methodology: Double blind, parallel group randomized clinical trial. Sample ma de up 82 subjects, age X = 72 years (SD +/- 5 years) belonging House for Elderly city Talca. Selection was non-probabilistic convenience, assignment by stratified...

OBJECTIVE Methodological criteria that characterise ethically sound community-based studies are often described in overviews but are rarely documented in clinical studies. Research investigating the health of Aboriginal Australians is often small-scale, descriptive and largely driven by non-Indigenous people. The 'community-controlled' model of research relating to Aboriginal peoples health is ...

At 07:45 a.m. on 2 April 2007, a tsunami hit Ghizo Island, western Solomon Islands in the south-west Pacific. Thirty-three people died Ghizo, of whom 31 originated from relatively small migrant Gilbertese community (transmigrated 1950s–1970s Kiribati), while only two were majority Melanesian community. This paper documents an extensive 4-year study that addresses potential core reasons for this...

• You can have as much security as you want – What are you willing to give up to get it? • Security always involves trade-offs – If no airplanes flew, 9/11 couldn't have happened – Gated communities offer more security but less privacy • We make decisions every day about these trade-offs • To do it thoughtfully, we must understand: – How security works – The threats and risks – The costs

In this paper I outline the characteristics of built environments that are believed to be effective in supporting social activity in physical space. I then discuss the degree to which these features can be translated into digital space. I argue that, although we can learn much from studying place-based communities, simply replicating the appearance of participants, architectural backdrops, and ...

We have been experiencing an explosion in the market of social websites that aim not only to entertain us, but also to help us enlarge our professional networks, to redefine business models and capture new customers, to modify the way learning and teaching are performed, among others. So far, little research has been done on what drives individuals to contribute to online communities, as there ...

Communities offer a context for people to meet, communicate and collaborate. Tools to support communities usually provide a communication and coordination medium and functionalities to find communication partners. Thereby, they strengthen existing communities or enable completely new (virtual) communities. In this paper we briefly present some ideas towards the extension of community support to...

Method: Forty-two mothers in British Columbia were identified as high-risk for PPD according to the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and randomly assigned to either a control group (that is, to standard community postpartum care) or an experimental group. The experimental group received standard care plus telephone-based peer support, initiated within 48 to 72 hours of randomization,...

Internet usage has increased a lot in recent times. Users can find their resources by using different hypertext links. This usage of Internet has led to the invention of web crawlers. Web crawlers are full text search engines which assist users in navigating the web. These web crawlers can also be used in further research activities. For e.g. the crawled data can be used to find missing links, ...