Inferring Community Structure in Healthcare Forums

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (02) ◽  
pp. 160-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Årsand ◽  
L. Fernandez-Luque ◽  
J. Lauritzen ◽  
G. Hartvigsen ◽  
T. Chomutare
Keyword(s):  
Information Flow ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Peer Interactions ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Community Structures ◽  
User Interests ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
Community Attachments

SummaryBackground: Detecting community structures in complex networks is a problem interesting to several domains. In healthcare, discovering communities may enhance the quality of web offerings for people with chronic diseases. Understanding the social dynamics and community attachments is key to predicting and influencing interaction and information flow to the right patients.Objectives: The goal of the study is to empirically assess the extent to which we can infer meaningful community structures from implicit networks of peer interaction in online healthcare forums.Methods: We used datasets from five online diabetes forums to design networks based on peer-interactions. A quality function based on user interaction similarity was used to assess the quality of the discovered communities to complement existing homophily measures.Results: Results show that we can infer meaningful communities by observing forum interactions. Closely similar users tended to co-appear in the top communities, suggesting the discovered communities are intuitive. The number of years since diagnosis was a significant factor for cohesiveness in some diabetes communities.Conclusion: Network analysis is a tool that can be useful in studying implicit networks that form in healthcare forums. Current analysis informs further work on predicting and influencing interaction, information flow and user interests that could be useful for personalizing medical social media.

Changing Generations, Changing Consumers and Transformation of Advertising Narrative

2019 ◽  
pp. 130-140
Author(s):  
Elif Ulker-Demirel
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right

Socio-economic, political, and socio-cultural changes that occur in specific periods over the years cause changes in social dynamics and social transformations. Generations, who are living in the same historical period and are expected to have similar consumption and lifestyle habits, are now a reference point for the companies and brands to correctly identify target consumers and choose the right communication tools. At this point, the changing technology has influenced the social structure, people and the way companies do business. Besides, the development and diversification of the means of communication by the influence of the internet technologies have caused the differentiation of the consumption behaviors and changed the connections and the ways of reaching the information. In the frame of these changes, the primary purpose is to examine consumption habits in the context of changing lifestyles and priorities of people with the effect of social transformations, as well as to explain the transformation of these changes regarding businesses, brands and communication tools.

scholarly journals Los hechos jurídicos

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 809-836
Author(s):  
Rubén Compagnucci de Caso
Keyword(s):  
Logical Connection ◽  
Commercial Code ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Effect ◽  
Legal Consequence ◽  
Civil Codes ◽  
The One ◽  
General Aspects ◽  
The Right

This study is about “legal acts”, which is a division of “the general aspects of private law. Most of the Civil Codes in the 20th and 21st centuries which include these general aspects, dedicate several of their articles to rule on said matter and determine in this way their nature, require-ments and effects .An example of all this are the Civil Codes in Germany (BGB), Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland among other countries. The new Civil and Commercial Code in force in Argentina since Au-gust 1st, 2015 deals with this matter in Book I, Title V, Chapter I (articles 257 to 264).Acts are external events within the social reality which have the power to alter or modify the surrounding environment. In this context, their analysis and study only apply to those actions or facts of a juridical nature and are therefore of interest to the law. All this makes it necessary to take a stand in order to explain when and why an event either natural o human is to be considered a “legal act”. To give an answer to this question, there are two opposed theories on the subject and some other irrelevant opinions. In this present, it has been intended to define and clarify the main points of both theories. One idea sustains that a legal act is the one which has in itself the character and the ability to achieve a goal, that is, the legal effect. This leads to defining it as the causal event of logical connection making it possible to get said legal effect then becoming a quality of the object itself. This theory is called “traditional” or “causative”. The second theory, supported by most of the Italian lawmakers and well spread in the modern doctrine considers that the legal acts themselves do not have a particular virtue but that their legal or juridical character is given by the fact that they are presupposed to have fulfilled all sta-tutory requirements. All this has been called fattispecie or “regulating factual presuppositions” by the Italian lawmakers.When a rule or law understands that to have a legal consequence it is necessary to do one or more acts, said acts become legal acts. For example , the birth or the death of a person is a “natural” act, but in most legislations the person who is born has the right to acquire, and the deceased to transfer their estate to their heirs. Other aspects have also been considered, in particular the classification of the legal acts, and the most important is the one which distinguishes natural acts from human acts which are tho-se where a human being takes part and with the expression of their will can do what are simply called “legal acts” or “legal transactions”.

scholarly journals Quarter Modernization of Construction Residential "New Praga" in Warsaw - Risks and Possibilities/ Modernizacja Kwartału Zabudowy Mieszkaniowej „Nowej Pragi” W Warszawie, Zagrożenia I Możliwości

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Anna Majewska ◽  
Małgorzata Denis
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Young People ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
New Jobs

Abstract The district “New Praga” is located on the right-bank of Warsaw in North Praga which is one of the oldest districts of the city. The citizens of this district, where an analyzed building quarter is located, are people with a lower social status than the rest of Warsaw’s population, who benefit from the social assistance (30%); moreover, there are a large number of crimes and high unemployment among young people in this area. These data show how difficult is to modernize this area because the improvement of a construction tissue is not enough to fully help the local community. Financial resources are needed to increase the level of education that allows finding new jobs and improves the quality of life. Afterwards, the modernization of tenements should be taken care for.

scholarly journals COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES ON SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Lee Swee Poh ◽  
Mohd Mahzan Awang ◽  
Shahlan Surat
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Past Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Labeling Theory ◽  
Special Needs Children ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
Positive Support

This paper discusses about the perspectives of the local community, family, school and peers on special needs children (or disabled children) schooling under the Special Education Integrated Programme in Bintulu District Education Office, Sarawak, Malaysia. This discussion is done based on the resources of past research conducted in Malaysia as well as overseas such as in the United States, Britain, Italy, and India. Labeling theory and theories of perception are reviewed engaging the social conflicts. Totally 88 respondents from Chinese community had been taken to answer the questionnaire. In general, there is a handful optimistic views that special needs children have their own talent, they are the special gift from God, they can distinguish good or bad things, have influences and roles to play. In addition, community feels sympathy with them, the community likes mingling with them and believe they can make hands activities very well. Due to the environmental impact on the development of individual and social skills of special needs child, the study suggested that Malaysians continue to hold to the principles to provide safe and quality education to special needs children. Efforts need to continue to foster a healthier community awareness and positive support on special needs children so that a gap of discrimination can be reduced because every individual has the right to obtain social development and quality of education.

scholarly journals Follow the leader? Orange-fronted conures eavesdrop on conspecific vocal performance and utilise it in social decisions

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0252374
Author(s):  
Heidi M. Thomsen ◽  
Thorsten J. S. Balsby ◽  
Torben Dabelsteen
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Vocal Performance ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Contact Call ◽  
Vocal Behaviour ◽  
Social Decisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Parrot Species

Animals regularly use social information to make fitness-relevant decisions. Particularly in social interactions, social information can reduce uncertainty about the relative quality of conspecifics, thus optimising decisions on with whom and how to interact. One important resource for individuals living in social environments is the production of information by signalling conspecifics. Recent research has suggested that some species of parrots engage in affiliative contact call matching and that these interactions may be available to conspecific unintended receivers. However, it remains unclear what information third parties may gain from contact call matching and how it can be utilised during flock decisions. Here, using a combined choice and playback experiment, we investigated the flock fusion choices and vocal behaviour of a social parrot species, the orange-fronted conure (Eupsittula canicularis), to a contact call matching interaction between two individuals of different sexes and with different vocal roles. Our results revealed that orange-fronted conures chose to follow vocal leaders more often than vocal followers during fusions. Furthermore, flocks responded with higher call rates and matched the stimulus calls closer when subsequently choosing a vocal leader. Interestingly, orange-fronted conures also showed higher contact call rates and closer matches when choosing males over females. These results suggest that paying attention to conspecific contact call interactions can provide individuals with social information that can be utilised during fission and fusion events, significantly influencing the social dynamics of orange-fronted conures.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE CJRAE SOCIAL WORKER IN PREVENTING ADDICTION IN CHILDREN FROM THE CLUJ COUNTY SCHOOLS

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-107
Author(s):  
Ramona PURA
Keyword(s):  
Social Worker ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Job Description ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Addiction Prevention ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right

The CJRAE institution is designed to ensure the quality of specific educational services provided to childern, teachers, parents and to allow everyone’s access to education by providing the necessary assistance. This article’s purpose is to determin the role of the social worker in addiction preventing programs of The Institution of Resourses and Educational Asistence of Cluj county (CJRAE Cluj). The study adopted a qualitative research design using the case study of an addiction preventing program runned in the Cluj county schools, between years 2017 and 2018. The social worker can have an important impact in school and social integration of children, as he has the abilities and competencies to identify the right resources for intervention; more than this, the job description of social worker empolyee in CRJAE, shows that they have the attribution to develop together with other educational partners useful programs for children, schools and comunity. That’s why, we have to know if and how the social worker contributes in these addiction prevention programs.

scholarly journals Placing social types through prosodic variation: An investigation of spatial meanings in Mainland China

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Robert Xu
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Prosodic Features ◽  
Cluster Index ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Profiles

This study examines how prosodic features evoke the spacial aspects of interactional meanings of well-known social types in Mainland China. Prosodic features (duration, pitch, voice quality) of the scripted performances of 18 prominent social types in China were measured acoustically and grouped by cluster analysis. Commonalities among types within each group were identified through a detailed analysis of meta-linguistic commentary collected from the internet. This paper focuses on three meaningful clusters: powerful bureaucratic types, disembodied voices, and “in-your-face” types. Members of each cluster share prosodic combinations and social profiles. More importantly, character types within each cluster index a specific interactional locale. Appropriation of their associated features could reproduce the social dynamics that is typical in that locale. The results highlight the situated use of sociolinguistic variables, and show that the prosodic features pattern structurally in the performances while indexing the historical-spatial settings of social interactions. This paper also considers place as an interactional and relational product of meaning making by these prosodic features.

scholarly journals Kecakapan Bertindak Penyandang Disabilitas Autisme Menurut Hukum Perdata

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 943
Author(s):  
Abdul Hariss ◽  
Nur Fauzia
Keyword(s):  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Special Character ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emotional Relationships ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Subjects

A person with a disability has the right to be treated the same as other human legal subjects. Therefore, the government is obliged to realize the rights listed in the convention, using laws and regulations, including how to fulfill the rights of persons with disabilities in every aspect of life such as: a decent living, education, health and so on, just like humans who live with disabilities. other normal. An autistic person or what in psychological terms is called autism, is included in the category of a person with a mental disability. A person is said to be autistic if he experiences abnormalities in carrying out a legal act, development in terms of the quality of the ability to carry out social and emotional relationships in the social environment of the community. A person is said to have autism, namely someone who has a special character in people generally not by showing mental (psychic), emotional (affective) or physical (physical) disabilities. The word autism, namely "auto" means everything that is directed at the individual. According to information that is not difficult to understand, autism is an abnormality in the brain that causes a decrease or loss of a person's ability to communicate, relate to others and respond to the environment or environment.

scholarly journals Principles, Rules, Difficulties and Dilemmas of Interpersonal Communication in the Social Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020(41) (4) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Monika Podkowińska ◽  
◽  
Beáta Balogová ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Special Place ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communication Difficulties ◽  
The Look ◽  
The Right

The article presents the selected principles of interpersonal communication in social work, paying attention to communication rules referring to active listening, choosing the right questions, or adapting the language to the interlocutor. The authors devoted a special place to communication awareness and the look at interpersonal communication as a meeting with an individual, a unique an exceptional person. In addition to the selected communication principles, the authors has also presented the selected dilemmas and communication difficulties that determine the quality of the conversation, its course and effects.

scholarly journals Dignity as a subject of pedagogical reflection (to the solution of a contemporary issue by means of analysis of foreign thinkers’ of the past thoughts on dignity)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-232
Author(s):  
Vladimir P. Bezdukhov
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teacher Students ◽  
Mental Abilities ◽  
The Right

The relevance of the paper is motivated by the importance of understanding the category of dignity as a category of pedagogical ethics. The author motivates the social relevance of solving a pedagogical plan of the issue of dignity by the fact that the value of dignity in current geopolitical and sociocultural conditions can become the basis of mutual understanding of peoples aspiring to preserve their cultural identity, to recognize the right to uphold traditional values for each of them. While developing a theoretical plan of the issue, the author proceeds from the idea that the basis for its solution should be an analysis of the ideas of thinkers and philosophers of the past that are of great importance to the present. The paper shows how the content of the dignity category, which is relevant for pedagogical ethics, is gradually being formed. Understanding of dignity by Plato is correlated with its understanding by Aristotle: for Plato, dignity is a virtue, which is manifested in the worthy behavior of a person, the quality of the soul (the dignity of the soul lies in wisdom); Aristotle connects dignity of a person with his/her deeds and actions, points to the importance of dignity in friendship based on equality, and not on superiority, on the inherent value of a person, and not on the choice of friends for benefit or pleasure. Summing up the analysis of the ancient thinkers ideas on dignity, the author draws special attention to the fact that it is the orientation to recognition of the dignity by each party of communication that is considered the basis of its adequacy. When analyzing ideas of T. Hobbes and I. Kant, the concept of price of a person becomes the key one. The author shows that T. Hobbes speaks of dignity as the superiority of some subjects over others (intellectual dignity, implying mental abilities, social value of a person, that is, the price given to him/her by the state) and emphasizes the social status of the phenomenon of dignity. I. Kant distinguishes between the concepts of price and dignity, assuming that dignity has neither value nor equivalent, it is higher than price and evaluation, that a person is respected for dignity as an internal moral value, and not for the origin and social status. The author of the paper insists that the value of dignity has the supra-situational importance in teacher-students interaction, it is based on recognition of the equality of all people in moral terms, regardless of their level of morality, social status and social roles performed, determines not only equal attitude of the teacher to all students, but also his/her attitude to him/herself and the attitude of students to him/her.

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