This paper considers the ‘affective turn’ within social sciences, alongside shift to a more emotional public and political sphere, implications of these shifts for study policy. A context austerity cuts reforms welfare services contributes heightened unstable emotions surrounding services. case Sure Start Children’s Centers in UK is presented, two areas where centers were threatened with closur...

BACKGROUND We aimed to examine the co-authorship networks in three successful Iranian academic research centers, in order to find the association between the scientific productivity and impact indicators with network features in a case study. METHODS We searched for English articles of the three research centers. We drew co-authorship maps of each center and calculated social network measures...

In this work, an approach focused on locating and recommending health care centers within a certain range of distance is presented. The proposed approach includes several integration technologies such as location services, mobile devices, social networks, ontologies, and historical statistics about vehicular traffic. KeywoRDS Collaborative Recommender System, Health Services, Location Technique...

In recent years, technologies and markets related to data centers have been rapidly changing and growing. Data centers are playing an important role in ICT infrastructure deployment and promise to become common platforms for almost all social infrastructures. Even though research has focused on networking technologies, various technologies are needed to develop high-performance, cost-efficient,...

the interactions and linkages between urban centers and peripheral settlements are increasingly recognized as key factors in the process of social, economic and environmental changes in peripheral settlements. despite this, most practices are implicitly based on a dichotomous view of population and activities in urban and peripheral area. this paper presents that how interactions between urba...