Computers and technologies are now part of the daily work environment of numerous enterprises and organizations. Social organizations are also concerned about computerization and are frequently in contact with technologies, generally used in various fields like, for instance, communication with users, workers and organizations, human resources management, treatments of social documents, and acc...

INTRODUCTION Interest has grown in how systems thinking could be used in obesity prevention. Relationships between key actors, represented by social networks, are an important focus for considering intervention in systems. METHOD Two long day care centers were selected in which previous obesity prevention programs had been implemented. Measures showed ways in which physical activity and dieta...

INTRODUCTION Scholarship is an essential part of academic success. Junior faculty members are often unfamiliar with the grounding literature that defines educational scholarship. In this article, the authors aim to summarize five key papers which outline education scholarship in the setting of academic contributions for emerging clinician educators. METHODS The authors conducted a consensus-b...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to examine the relationships among the psychological, social, and environmental factors influencing the utilization of senior centers among older adults in Korea. METHODS A questionnaire survey was administered to two types of older adults who lived in Seoul, Korea: 262 older adults who used senior centers (3 places) and 156 older adults who did not use...

The purpose of this White Paper of the EU Support Action “Visioneer”(see www.visioneer.ethz.ch) is to address the following goals: 1. Develop strategies to quickly increase the objective knowledge about social and economic systems 2. Describe requirements for efficient large-scale scientific data mining of anonymized social and economic data 3. Formulate strategies how to collect stylized facts...