INTRODUCTION The increasing importance accorded the social and behavioural sciences in medical education presents opportunities for developing new and innovative forms of teaching and learning in this field. Yet social and behavioural scientists often feel isolated and marginalized. This research was designed to build a network of such practitioners to share and compare current practice, and to...

Beyond their common use for interpersonal communication, chatlines (also chatrooms) can be formalised as dynamic systems with heuristics. We have studied chatlines in the framework of social networks. The design and data analysis of chatlines opens a new interesting research direction in social network studies. It provides the opportunity of studying the dynamics of human social behaviour in ex...

On the basis of resource-based view, this paper analyzes the impacts of IT resource on different levels of IT usage in Shanghai higher education institutions. By analyzing the survey data from 40 Shanghai institutions, the study contributes several insights to China-context IT usage research and practice in higher education system. First of all, this study sheds lights on the impacts of IT reso...

social learning and knowledge generation are two key factors to achieve successful natural resources co-management. social learning can be beneficial by broadcasting and transmitting experiences and problem solving ideas in a group of people. social learning networks can transmit knowledge and experiences from one node to another in the network. social learning can produce a suitable learning a...

Social Network Analysis is employed widely as a means to compute the probability that a given message flows through a social network. This approach is mainly grounded upon the correct usage of three basic graphtheoretic measures: degree centrality, closeness centrality and betweeness centrality. We show that, in general, those indices are not adapt to foresee the flow of a given message, that d...

the present study aimed to explain the factors affecting the usage of electronic insurance in iran insurance company and its operating strategies in khuzestan province. the research method is descriptive-survey method, and data collecting instrument is questionnaire. the study population is consisted of 480 people of all staff and experts the sales network in iran insurance company in khuzestan...

The Shift Aggregate Extract Network (SAEN) is an architecture for learning representations on social network data. SAEN decomposes input graphs into hierarchies made of multiple strata of objects. Vector representations of each object are learnt by applying shift, aggregate and extract operations on the vector representations of its parts. We propose an algorithm for domain compression which ta...

INTRODUCTION Beginning with the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, the Internet was a significant additional tool in the education of teenagers. Later, it takes more and more significant role in educating students and professionals. GOAL The aim of this paper is to investigate, to what extent and how effectively the Internet is used today by students of biomedical faculties in Bos...