Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease characterized by cartilage deterioration, and it represents the most prevalent articular condition in developed countries. This study aimed to assess prevalence of OA awareness explore association between levels sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, educational level) among Saudi citizens residents Riyadh. A quantitative observational...

the article aims to consider factors affecting on the social participation of citizens 18 to 64 years old in the civic affairs in mashhad. the method was survey and the population included all the all inhabitants of mashhad. sample size was 348 respondents who were selected by proportionate systematic sampling strategy for interviewing. the results showed that participation mean is 3.19 out of ...

The purposes of the paper are to know and improve the legal awareness of Surakarta local government officer to Law No.12/2006 on Citizenship in vanishing civic discrimination to Chinese Indonesians. Some issues of the Chinese Indonesian are the definitions of Indonesian citizens and native Indonesian people or “warga negara Indonesia (WNI) asli” and their obligation to show Indonesian Citizensh...

This study explores awareness and visitation of e-government websites among techno-disadvantaged citizens in the United States. Following up on on a community-based initiative, designed to stimulate computer literacy and access to information and communication technologies for residents and neighbors of an underserved public housing community, a survey of egovernment website awareness and visit...

Exposure to conflicting political viewpoints is widely assumed to benefit the citizens of a democratic polity. Nonetheless, the benefits of exposure to heterogeneous political viewpoints have yet to be demonstrated empirically. Drawing on national survey data that tap characteristics of people's political discussion networks, I examine the impact of heterogeneous networks of political discussio...

We used the Fiscal Observatory Survey of the University of Murcia (2007) to examine the antecedents of trust in the Spanish government (at city, regional and state levels). We found that the main drivers of trust are individuals’ perception of the government’s performance and the socio-economic environment in which they live. Regarding the consequences, we tested a variant of the rule complianc...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors that enable end-user adoption of e-government services in Pakistan, where these facilities are at a rudimentary stage. Design/methodology/approach – Following previous research on e-government services adoption, this study employs the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model to examine the influential factors ...

this paper aims to study the relationship between social capital and culture of citizenship as key elements of social sciences.  in the recent decades, the variables such as social cooperation, solidarity, trust and awareness have been discussed by sociologists as the fundamental factors of social capital and the values and norms of citizenship. thus, the current research aims at specifying the...