This presentation is concerned with the professional relationships between teachers and paediatricians in supporting children with special educational needs to reach their full potential. In England, both professions are subject to government legislation and guidance with regard to their own professional practice, including Every Child Matters (DfES 2003) which impacts on both professions. Addi...

In this paper, we will describe an ongoing research on the communication styles of immigrant adolescents in Italy. Following a comparison of native and immigrant high school students, based on their responses to questionnaires and interviews, we began a series of interviews and focus groups with immigrant students, which led us to propose and use what we call the immigrants' double virtual citi...

Group size is a core trait defining social systems, social complexity and social structure, so understanding group-size evolution is critical to understanding the evolution of sociality. Traditional views of group-size evolution focus on ecological factors such as predation risk and physical resources, but the additional factor of time has remained largely unexplored. Time is a valuable limited...

Drawing on Urde’s (2003) business model of corporate brand value creation, this exploratory study considers whether or not the use of social media for educational rather than marketing purposes can enhance student perceptions of the University corporate brand and thus increase brand loyalty. Based on focus groups with new students through to final year students at a Business School in a Scottis...

Female-headed single parent families are one of the most concerned issues in the contemporary family or women studies. From the perspectives of the Taiwanese culture, married women are like water spilled on the ground and can never be retrieved. Being single mothers, how they interpret their experiences of social inclusion or exclusion? How our service system can rebuild and strengthen single m...

in recent decades, the theory of sustainable development has been introduced to several strands of science. this theory and its special view to communities (sustainable community development) as the cell of urban life, demonstrates the solution to urban problems by highlighting the meaning of city neighborhoods. in the local scale, it is essential to use a collaborative process of development, ...

social phobia is characterized by a fear of negative evaluation within social or performance situations, where individuals believe that they are under scrutiny and may be embarrassed (american psychiatric association, 2013). the present study was carried out to examine the effectiveness of mindfulness and acceptance-based group therapy on decreasing fears of scrutiny by others in patients with ...

Little is known ahout evidence-based practice (EBP) in social service agencies beyond studies of researcher, practitioner, and educator opinions. The Bringing Evidence for Social Work Trairüng (BEST) Project involved 16 participants from 3 social service agencies. The experiential training, delivered by 2 doctoral students, focused on a team-identified practice issue and followed the EBP proces...

Location-based social discovery networks (LBSD) is an emerging category of location-based social networks (LBSN) that are specifically designed to enable users to discover and communicate with nearby people. In this paper, we present the first measurement study of the characteristics and evolution of location-based communities which are based on a social discovery network and geographic proximi...

This paper discusses how Turkish Cypriot orthopedically impaired learners who are living in North Cyprus use social networking as a tool for leisure and education, and to what extent they satisfy their personal development needs by means of these digital platforms. The case study described, conducted in North Cyprus in 2015 followed a qualitative research methodology: semi-structured interviews...