nowadays, a lot of natural resource co-management plans due to lack of attention to stakeholders’characteristics and position in network of social relationships have failed. actors or key personnel’srecognition has been one of administrative requirement of natural resources co-management plans.the most influential actors in environmental decisions making can be identified based on stakeholdersa...

Nowadays, both text-based and 3D online applications rely on conversational agents autonomous characters to interact with users. Previous experiments demonstrated that perceived agency, is say, one’s belief in interacting a computer- or another human-controlled entity could impact social interaction. At present, theories results still diverge no consensus has been reached. Therefore, we develop...

As actors participate in the production of public goods, processes of social comparison may affect the

ions of human behavior, which serve the interpretive perspective of the author. As abstractions, characters and data are platforms for multiple interpretations by the readers Settings: although written text's content is static, it is framed in an apparent mobile ‘object’ whose routes are mapped within a certain historical, social, economical and cultural environment, influencing both production...

BACKGROUND Health sector reforms taking place in Colombia during the Nineties included policies to promote social participation in the health system, which is considered essential to its functioning. The aim of this article is to analyse the meaning and the significance of participation in health for the different social actors involved in implementing policies in Colombia. METHODS A qualitat...

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of type of players on ecosystem accounting system using structural equations. In total, 84 activists in the field of environmental accounting (ecosystem) were selected through convenience sampling. Subjects filled the 22-item questionnaire of components of actor network and the 25-item questionnaire of ecosystem accounting. Given the fact that the signifi...

Despite a strong interest in media coverage of social problems, sociologists have failed to examine when and why news outlets present issues as problems in need of public action within short time periods. Through content analysis of 475 newspaper articles and negative binomial regression, I show that coverage of homelessness varies in the extent to which it presents homelessness as a social pro...

Link prediction has become a common way to infer new associations among actors in social networks. Most existing methods focus on the local and global information neglecting the implication of the actors in social groups. Further, the prediction process is characterized by a high complexity and uncertainty. In order to address these problems, we firstly introduce a new evidential weighted versi...

Monitoring threats to information security is increasingly becoming important to protecting secured organizational documents. There is increasing number of threats to information security, which originates from the internal users of the system. Insider is defined as a trusted person and has access to classified documents. Our focus here is on understanding mechanisms for monitoring insiders wor...

Public spaces changed in the last couple of years: abundant use of smart phones and other digitally connecting devices draw peoples' attention away from physical neighbors to virtual peer groups. So, will masses of isolated people be the desired future? We think that current technology involving new display technology and, therein, new interaction possibilities hint at a different future vision...