Motivated in part by the rising interest on social innovation, and also by the emergence of the networked social movements such as the Spanish ‘indignados’ and the ‘Occupy Wall Street’, the focus of this essay are the ‘social hackers’: innovators (or groups of innovators) which combine the technical skills of hackers with the civic or political orientation of social innovators. Hackers, working...

Many project managers of a large scale project shortened delivery period of his or her projects unwillingly by the request of clients. However, some of them believe there is no difference between a large scale project and a small scale project in shortening the delivery period and accept shortening finally. This is because they are not informed theoretically of what impact can be made by shorte...

OBJECTIVES To clarify the social disadvantages associated with myasthenia gravis (MG) and examine associations with its disease and treatment. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS We evaluated 917 consecutive cases of established MG seen at 13 neurological centres in Japan over a short duration. OUTCOME MEASURES All patients completed a questionnaire on social disadvanta...

the role of the motherhood is the most important factor in individual and social life of the human beings. mother willingly and /or, unwillingly, plays her role in the destination of child via various factors. some of these factors are experimental whereas, some not. undoubtedly, what is not in the domain experimental science cannot be grasped but, via revelationary guidance. this article studi...

article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute the URL Introduction Most children in the world's wealthy countries use the internet at home, school and elsewhere, with ever more children gaini...

Job Shop Scheduling Problem is a strongly NP-hard problem of combinatorial optimisation and one of the most well-known machine scheduling problem. Taboo Search is an effective local search algorithm for the job shop scheduling problem, but the quality of the best solution found depends on the initial solution used. To overcome this problem in this thesis we present a new approach that uses a po...

BACKGROUND The uptake of the combined measles, mumps and rubella immunisation (MMR) in Britain has fallen since 1998, when a link was hypothesised with the development of bowel disorders and childhood autism. Despite reassurances about the safety of MMR, uptake levels remain lower than optimal. We need to understand what influences parents' decisions on whether to accept MMR or not so that heal...

Sixteen years ago, while washing her hair, Anne Willis found a bump on the back of her head. She didn’t think much of it because her parents had a history of sebaceous cysts. Still, she visited her family doctor and dermatologist, who concurred: It was nothing serious. A few months later, as she prepared to leave the same dermatologist’s office for an unrelated issue, the doctor suddenly called...

Declaration All sentences or passages quoted in this dissertation from other people's work have been specifically acknowledged by clear cross-referencing to author, work and page(s). I understand that failure to do this amounts to plagiarism and will be considered grounds for failure in this dissertation and the degree examination as a whole. iv iv Acknowledgements As a seventeen year old, I wa...

Spencer Smith In the mid–second century AD a well-educated, Latin-speaking North African named Lucius Apuleius composed an extended prose narrative that explores some of the foundational themes of the western intellectual tradition: the place of the human in the world, the nature of social order, the quest for spiritual identity—the very nature of being itself, as well as of the divine. Much to...