BACKGROUND Successful community groups have the capacity to mobilize community assets to address needs. Capacity-building education is integral to building competent communities. OBJECTIVES A community-university team developed and pilot tested an education program for community advocates from disadvantaged neighborhoods with high chronic disease burden. METHODS The Community Advocacy and L...

A cross-media platform was designed for a community of young teenagers oriented towards societal change. The platform involved an interactive web forum featuring creative and communicative collaborative tools in a 3d avatar environment, and a weekly show in national public-service television. Informal assessment of the work indicated that (1) an integrated spiral of production and consumption a...

Ontology building is an important prerequisite for state-ofthe-art semantic technologies for knowledge worker support. But ontology engineering methods have so far neglected the early phase of ontology building where a conceptualization only exists rather informally and undergoes continuous evolution through collaboration and interaction within the community. We have to view ontology building a...

To significantly increase building energy performance, the use of building simulation software at the earliest has been emphasized. Inherent complexity in data representation, I/O (Input and Output) and Visualization of available software requires specialist knowledge to leverage the potentials offered. Early stages of design are characterized by unstructured and incomplete data which is insuff...

This study presents a self-assessment tool and process that facilitate community capacity building and social learning for natural resource management. The tool and process provide opportunities for rural landholders and project teams both to self-assess their capacity to plan and deliver natural resource management (NRM) programs and to reflect on their capacities relative to other organizatio...

BACKGROUND Often, research takes place on underserved populations rather than with underserved populations. This approach can further isolate and stigmatize groups that are already made marginalized. What Goes Around is a community-based research project that was led by community members themselves (Peers). CASE PRESENTATION This research aimed to implement a community-based research methodol...

Economics concerns phenomena on the interface between materials and processes in the physical world, and strategic actions in cognitive, legal, and cultural realms. A very limited set of questions about the existence of rationally optimal allocations of goods has been asked within the mathematical framework of economic general equilibrium theory. Independently, diverse ad hoc models of particul...

abstract background: patient education is among the lowest met need of patients in iran; therefore, expansion of that role can result in greater professional accountability. this study aimed to explain the practical science of the process, structure, and outcomes of a nurse‑led action research project to expand the nurses’ role in patient education in iran. materials and methods: this study was...