The development and emergence of social media have pushed literacy language activities in new directions. increasing usage affects various by optimizing the existence media. This study aimed to determine relationship between improvement literacy, especially learning, so there would be recommendations form efforts improve skills. research fill gaps understanding how features could effectively de...

BACKGROUND The length of stay and bed usage on acute psychogeriatric admission wards are influenced by several factors. The impact of a dedicated specialist social worker working exclusively with acutely ill psychogeriatric inpatients and with a dedicated budget for domiciliary care packages on the length of stay, bed usage, and costs was evaluated in an opportunistic "before and after" cohort ...

This study examines the individuals’ participation intentions and behaviour on Social Networking Sites (SNSs). For this purpose, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is utilized and extended in this study through the addition of “perceived social capital” construct aiming to increase its explanatory power and predictive ability in this context. Data collected from a survey of 1100 participants...

Twitter for teaching: can social media be used to enhance the process of learning? Chris Evans Chris Evans is a Senior Lecturer in the Brunel Business School at Brunel University. His research interests include interactivity, Web 2.0 and social media, multimedia learning technology, and the adoption of innovative learning technologies. He is Chair of the annual eLearning 2.0 international confe...

With more people accessing Online Social Networks (OSN) using their mobile devices, location-based features have become an important part of the social networking. In this paper, we present the first measurement study of a new category of location-based online social networking services, a location-based social discovery (LBSD) network, that enables users to discover and communicate with nearby...

The evolution of sociality in spiders is associated with female bias, reproductive skew and an inbreeding mating system, factors that cause a reduction in effective population size and increase effects of genetic drift. These factors act to decrease the effectiveness of selection, thereby increasing the fixation probability of deleterious mutations. Comparative studies of closely related specie...

The social stress model provides a framework for detecting protective factors that may contribute to adolescents' resiliency when confronted with compelling influences to engage in substance abuse. Parameters of the model were tested in 2 urban high school samples (N = 124) of Black (78%), White (16%), and Hispanic (6%) adolescents aged 12-14 years. Pretest and posttest measures, designed to de...

Knowledge communities allow individuals to share knowledge and collaborate with each other based on common interests. The authors apply socio-technical theory as the overarching theoretical framework to propose a research model which posits that both technical factors (system quality and information quality) and social factors (community governance and pro-sharing norms) collectively influence ...