The purposes of this paper were to present aspects of interaction in a nursing virtual community, and to propose reflections about interaction, collaboration and learning. Data about participation and conversation are showed and discussed in a collaborative learning per-

Recently, China has a more prominent trend of domestic price rise, which has obviously influenced public’s daily life and corporate production and operation. If we don’t take effective measures to deal with price trend, it will lead to further strengthened inflation expectation and deteriorate market economy order. Business community is actively seeking countermeasures to deal with the impact o...

The rapid growth of online investing and virtual investing-related communities (VICs) has a wide-raging impact on research, practice and policy. Given the enormous volume of postings on VICs, automated classification of messages to extract relevance is critical. Classification is complicated by three factors: (a) the amount of irrelevant messages or "noise" messages (e.g., spam, insults), (b) t...

In existing healthcare systems, the focus is on clinical processes to assess the health condition of patients, making clinical decisions and applying therapeutic procedures all under control of health professionals. However, patients with chronic diseases usually face many disease related problems that are not immediately under control or supervision of a health professional. Taking patients wi...

The virtual community concept, when supported by adequate ICT and organizational infrastructures, represents a very promising approach for a new philosophy in elderly care and active aging. A mobile agents based approach to implement services to support a Time Bank virtual community in elderly care is introduced and a prototype system developed in the context of the TeleCARE project is presented.

Within the ‘Virtual Mobility and Distributed Laboratories’ project three naturalistic case studies of distributed research communities were conducted with a focus on the communication media used. The findings provide insight into relationships between the different media that the communities selected, and the different activities to which these media contributed. It is suggested that these find...

Research investigating neighborhood effects on children and families has been largely deficit and individual-focused, investigated structural variables, and has typically produced equivocal findings and small effect sizes. We suggest an approach focused on community strengths and resources that stresses the role of measures of social interaction variables and the utilization of analytic strateg...

This paper considers the development of virtual communities focusing upon virtual religion and its impact on humanity. It is important that religion is expressed communally and socially, and the Internet has provided a new community context for religiosity, linking people from geographically, socially, and culturally disparate backgrounds, facilitating interactivity as never before in an intrig...