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Web 2.0 platforms give people more power over the way they share information and exchange opinions. The increase in social interactivity leads to the emerging of self-organized communities where members form their opinions via social swarming. This paper introduces a new approach which enables predicting and explaining the process of collective opinion formation by social swarming. A computational...
Social network analysis can be an important help for military and criminal intelligence analysis. In real world applications, there is seldom complete knowledge about the network of interest -- we only have partial and incomplete information about the nodes and networks present. Community detection in networks is an important area of current research in social network analysis with many applications...
Field research in Xiyang County, Gansu province revealed that: after adopting biogas technology, the consumption amount of traditional energy has been greatly reduced, women's livelihood and hygiene have been improved, the incidence of disease has been reduced. Women were relieved from “time poverty” and “energy poverty”, and they devoted more time to generating income and entertainment. The essay...
Open problems are defined differently in document image analysis than in the physical sciences, theoretical computer science, or mathematics. Instead of a formal definition, problems in DIA are stated in terms of automation of an application area (e.g., postal address reading) or a scientific sub field (e.g., image compression). The notion of a successful solution may be based on (1) the relative...
The lack of energy prevents the development of productive, economically organized and potentially employment and income-generator activities, leading to poverty and social exclusion. This article presents a Case Study focused on the electricity generation in an isolated community, developed facing to the social and environmental issues of the North region of Brazil, which concentrates the largest...
Online education had already become an important aspect of the field of education, and be paid more and more attention. However there were emotional barriers from the separation between teachers and students lead to emotional loss of online learner. Based on the characteristics of online education environment, this paper analyzed the forms and reasons for emotional loss of the online education, and...
Virtual Environment (VE) offers an effective way to study virtual prototypes, also from user-centered perspective. This paper focuses on the theoretical models which can be used in studying VE user, We present three alternatives frames, in which the focus varies. The first one is the traditional frame in VE studies, which is the concept of presence. It focuses on the technological components, which...
Enterprise-scale information systems are deeply entwined with the networks of social practice that use and support them. Yet “interoperability” between information systems and social communities of practice is not always easily achieved, because these disparate types of entities operate according to different logics and respond differently to innovation processes. In this paper we identify differences...
In a sustainable economic model, energy and material resources are limited. How would robotics need to be adapted to this model in order to play a useful role? This paper is an attempt at exploring the concepts for the role for robotics in sustainable development. Industrial robotics is often associated with an unsustainable economic model. However, robotics also provides qualitative benefits through...
With the tremendous growth of online shopping, this paper tries to figure out what factors influence consumer's shopping decisions online. Following the idea of a customer of both traditional market and e-market, his offline experience and online experience in each community may probably affect his decisions to buy a product in e-market, especially for experience goods. Therefore this paper theoretically...
In order to study the value-orientation of the physical education and curriculum, the subjectivity physical education curriculum was taken as dominant educational thought. It requires that the physical education and curriculum respect and emphasize the subjectivity of the students; pay attention to the unique experience of the students in the physical activity; help them to gain the qualification...
This study aimed to reveal the natural history, curative effect and possible re-infection risk factors of human cystic echinococcosis (CE) through long-term follow-up of treated and untreated CE cases in Hobukesar, Xingjiang, Northwest China. Follow-up studies about CE were carried out twice in Hobukesar from August 2005 to October 2008. Ultrasound scan was primary diagnostic method. Among 24 patients...
Sports Associations are an important foundation of modern sports, why this is necessary from the sports community, why and how could the three perspective for a new Chinese sports associations of the presence of base (philosophical side, the economic side, the political side, sports area), human base and operating mechanism (formation mechanism, operating mechanism, control conditions), the rational...
This paper describes software agents that monitor the formation of teams within the System-Oriented UAV simulator SOUL. Operators must be trained in virtual teams, working in communities of practice. According to the evaluation of their collective skills, users can then be placed in communities of competencies. For monitoring the interactions between operators, an agent framework facilitates the collaborative...
Objective: In this paper, the aim is to evaluate the result of elderly nutrition health education in the community carried out by nursing undergraduates using different human communication patterns and explore a method used for improve the ability of their self health education in practice. Method:245 Old people were selected to receive the instruction of nutrition health education by nursing undergraduates...
Based on the “Game Theory”, the author applies the theory model of “Prisoner's Dilemmas” into the area of sports, so as to demonstrate the objective reality of collective action dilemma in sports field. Through the application of the “Hobbes Program”, “Social Capital Program”, “Reasonable supervision program”, “Comprehensive Managing System Program” into practical situation, the author searches for...
Several works on agile methods discuss the use of team's workspace for displaying relevant information. The management of an Informative Workspace (IW) is a challenging task as it can involve many different subjects such as team adaptability, continuous reflection, workspace layout, human cognition, usability, etc. Our paper explores the IW management and it is divided in two phases. The first phase...
Organizational culture is the personality of the organization. When traditional culture declines, the local biodiversity will be under threat, and vice versa. In order to protect national parks and keep the ethnical people to develop, the good ethnic tradition knowledge should be fully recognized and protected.
The hotel industry is one of typical industry in service trades. Whether internal employees or external customers, "people" is its main elements. With the improvement of human understanding of nature, the concept of sustainable development has added a new meaning to a number of management theories. The author analyzed specifically the conflict and the connection between "Land Ethics"(a...
The development of the virtual community has changed the way of human life and activities. This article focuses on the user behavior study in the virtual world. In this paper, the questionnaire investigation is used to analyze the characteristics of user behaviors in the virtual communities. Some problems, such as trust issue, self-disclosure, trust crisis, and relationship adjustment are discussed.
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