Since there have been a number of online social networking services (SNS), we have been experiencing new social phenomena around us. Traditional social network analysis methods [Gan and Zhu 2007, Jung 2010] might have difficulties efficiently understanding the large-scale social data from such SNS [Jung 2012]. Moreover, as the area of social networks is a highly cross-disciplinary one, we aim t...

this research covered three villages in kura local government area of kano state. the study described the socio-economic characteristics of maize producers and their production techniques and also determined the profitability and resource use efficiency in the maize production. structured questionnaires were used for primary data collection and 40 small scale producers were purposively selected...

BACKGROUND Despite the increasing belief that the places where people live influence their health, there is surprisingly little consistent evidence for their associations with mental health. We investigated the joint effect of community and individual-level socio-economic deprivation and social cohesion on individual mental health status. METHODS Multilevel analysis of population survey data ...

inappropriate patterns and drastic changes in land-use have caused the severe environmental crisis. therefore, it is necessary to accomplish any plan in relation to establishment of different activities with respect to land capabilities and land-use evaluation thought. in this study, ecological capabilities and the site selection of land uses in babolrood basin, mazandaran province were evaluat...

A great number of immigration populations resident permanently in Yunnan Border Area of China. To some extent, these people belong to refugees or immigrants in accordance with International Rules, which significantly features the social diversity of this area. However, this kind of social diversity always impairs the social order. Therefore, there will be a positive influence to the local socie...

Functional activity in the anterior cingulate cortex and insula has been reported to be abnormal during social tasks in autism spectrum disorders. However, few studies have examined surface morphometry in these regions and how this may be related to autism spectrum disorder symptomatology. In this study, 27 individuals with autism spectrum disorders and 25 controls between the ages of 7 to 39 y...

Visual Thinking Algorithms (VTA’s) are a tool for designing interactive visualizations by describing the operation of a human-computer cognitive system, accounting for strengths and limitations of the human visual system and cognitive processing. In this paper, we apply this methodology to visualization of memes and related topics and communities (groups of users with common topics) arising in ...

introduction: iran's social security organization provides hospital services through direct treatment system (hospitals owned by the organization) and indirect treatment system (purchasing of hospital services and other health care services from other providers). the current research aims to assess technical performance and determine the relationship between activity size and efficiency level o...