The importance of tackling loneliness and social isolation to improve older people's well-being and quality of life is increasingly recognised. Health promotion activities have long been considered important in providing support to develop social contacts but there is lack of evidence as to the effectiveness of interventions. The value of one-to-one interventions is unclear. Only one of the 11 ...

Most ethnic minorities in Vietnam such as the Vietnamese-Thai, Tay, Nung, Hmong, Muong and Dao have a special relationship with the land, elements and other living creatures. This relationship goes beyond mere economic interests to cultural and spiritual connections to the places they have inhabited for generations. These connections have been transmitted and nurtured from generation to generat...

How can creating videos contribute to expanding health literacy? This article describes a participatory action research project with a group of Canadian Indigenous youth and their teachers. As the youth explored their interests about health and wellness through the artistic creation of videos, they developed a critical consciousness about community, culture, confidence, and control. They became...

interests lie in the area of headquarters-subsidiary relationships, international human resource management and cross-cultural management. Abstract This study investigates executive staffing practices in foreign subsidiaries of multinational corporations. Grounded in a literature review of the reasons for employing either parent country nationals or host country nationals in top management posi...

1. Introduction 2. Natural Law, the Human Right of Non-Discrimination and Intellectual Property Law (i) Natural Law and Intellectual Property Rights (ii) Human Rights and Intellectual Property Rights (a) International Law (aa) Non-discrimination (bb) Property rights (cc) Authors' moral and material interests (dd) Minimum standard of human rights under customary international law (b) Supranation...

We have seen an explosion of image database developments in the decade since work began on the first multi-user networked system. This paper explores the state of technology a decade ago, revisits one of the earliest systems, identifies curren t interesting projects, discusses the major issues that are being faced today, and forecasts issues and trends that will emerge in the future. This paper...

In this chapter, we examine how people of African descent are using an online discussion forum as a site for interrogating the existential question of “who am I?”. Contrary to the typical formulations of the digital divide as a measure of disparity in access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), we make a case for how and why ICTs are being effectively used to enable and advance...

In this paper I argue that it is morally important for doctors to trust patients. Doctors' trust of patients lays the foundation for medical relationships which support the exercise of patient autonomy, and which lead to an enriched understanding of patients' interests. Despite the moral and practical desirability of trust, distrust may occur for reasons relating to the nature of medicine, and ...

Important parts of the knowledge within the field of information systems are represented as methods. Methods focus on the development process. Although methods are applied in complex settings, involving different actors with different interests and power bases, this is normally not reflected in an integral manner in the methods. Based on a case study of a method in action a model of the context...

Globalization, and more recently the dot-com era, has increased worldwide interest in new business development. As a result, having an international perspective on the study of entrepreneurship has become more important for researcher and practitioner alike. One aspect of this enhanced interest is a worldwide interest in student entrepreneurs. It is no surprise that differences in attitudes tow...