Community-driven services compile data provided by the community members, for instance playlists in Web 2.0 music sites. We show how this data can be analysed and knowledge about sequential associations between songs and artists can be discovered. While most of this kind of analysis focus on (symmetric) similarity measures, we intend to discover which songs can “musically follow” others, focusi...

Methods to assess ecosystem services using ecological or economic approaches are considerably better defined than methods for the social approach. To identify why the social approach remains unclear, we reviewed current trends in the literature. We found two main reasons: (i) the cultural ecosystem services are usually used to represent the whole social approach, and (ii) the economic valuation...

In Sweden, mandatory reporting in social services is regulated by the Social Services Act to protect service users and improve services. The aim of this article describe reports staff compare types mistreatment, severity actions across three areas services: elderly care, disability services, individual family care. All written investigated a designated official over 1-year period (n = 1105) one...

drought, known as one of the serious natural disasters, has adversely affected climatic equilibrium of the countries during recent years, bringing about various economic and social losses. the purpose followed in this study was to assess the effective factors involved in the adoption of the type of management wheat farmers of varamin township choose to alleviate the situation. the methodologica...

THE PAST few years have seen a growing interest, iu countries at, varyiiig stages of economic and social developmeut, in the appropriate development and organization of social welfare services. Coucepts aud definit,ious as well as methods of providing social services vary greatly, but it seems evident that industrialization aud urbauizat,ion have created certain commuuit,y ueeds to which people...

Social services are entering the information society. Over the past decades, information technology applications have slowly permeated service agencies. Although originally the domain of administrative and management staff, now core operational staff are also confronted with making increased use of technology. The way information management in human services is shaped is not only dependent upon...

This paper provides a selective overview highlighting some major themes of the recent literature on the role of pro-social motivation in the provision of social services. We focus on the insights obtained from two alternative ways of modelling pro-social motivation; action-oriented and output-oriented altruism. This literature has implications regarding the design of optimal incentives, the sel...