People are gregarious by nature, which explains why group activities, from colleagues sharing a meal to friends attending a book club event together, are the social norm. Online group recommenders identify items of interest, such as restaurants, movies, and books, that satisfy the collective needs of a group (rather than the interests of individual group members). With a number of new movies be...

Whose interests should count and how should various interests be balanced at the pediatric patient's bedside? The interests of the child patient clearly count. Recently, however, many authors have argued that the family's interests also count. But how should we think about the interests of others? What does it mean to talk about "the family" in this context? Does it really just mean the interes...

AbstrackThis study aims to determine the changes in social value of Pangngari Tradition Banyadu Dayak community Untang Village, Banyuke Hulu District, Landak Regency. The method used this research is qualitative with descriptive analysis. Sources data were conducted through observation, documentation, interviews village government leaders, elders, and members group. result that values tradition...

Abstract To establish an Intergenerational Bonding (IGB) program that pairs undergraduate students at the University of Nebraska Kearney with older adults this rural community, we first tested acceptability and feasibility such a program. We surveyed both groups to identify their interest level in IGB common interests activities. Older residing independent dwellings, assisted living homes, nurs...

Discussion forums offer a new source of insight for the experiences and challenges faced by individuals affected by mental disorders. Language technology can help domain experts gather insight from these forums, by aggregating themes and user behaviors across thousands of conversations. We present a novel model for web forums, which captures both thematic content as well as user-specific intere...

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of field visits in various jobs social studies learning, because they should acquire knowledge understanding different environments at places and times, both individually groups find their interests which can ultimately form a good community environment. And harmonious. There are three objectives for achievement learners, namely; The first is devel...

In recent years, heavy user growth in Web 2.0 applications such as blogs and online social networks has helped support studies into classifying various web communities. Researchers have made many interesting finds, e.g. identifying subgroups within large "blogospheres." However, there has been less focus starting from a small community of sites to find other sites that are potentially part of t...

Abundant content, data type and diverse members’ interests naturally lead to preference heterogeneity within a multicast session requiring frequent communication within subgroups of members sharing common interests/requirements. In this paper, we propose a topology-sensitive subgroup communication (TSC) mechanism to support efficient subgroup communications in large-scale multicast applications...

An online community is a virtual community composed of individuals who form and maintain online communication, share common goals, interests and needs that provide the reason of community existence, and use common interactive tools that support their networking and communication activities. The term “networking” is traditionally used to describe the formation and maintenance of connections and ...