Within all specialties and practice settings, nurse practitioners (NPs) consider social context determinants of health (SDoH) as fundamental to accessible, equitable, person-centered care. SDoH are the aspects one’s life that contribute knowledge, perspective engagement in The conditions which one lives, learns, works or plays key impact access transportation, food, housing, education safety, w...

The definition of a social enterprise makes it distinctive as a form of organizational hybrid. For a social enterprise, which goal is to create social value which benefits its stakeholders, it is important to highlight the process of value co-creation through interaction and integration of resources within and among service systems rather than merely measuring tangible outcomes. Value created o...

Introduction: The theory of value of children refers to the needs which children provide for their parents. Considering the close relationship between the value orientation of people with the decisions in organizing life and forming a family, including having children, and according to decreased fertility rate in Iran, the present study was performed with aim of intergenerational comparison of ...

For a limited period of time, exchange students study abroad in a host culture they may know little about, leaving behind their culture, social networks and institutions. In the current study, students going to collectivist countries and students going to individualist countries were investigated, to test if the different characteristics of the host cultures would produce different patterns of ...

When dealing with large graphs, such as those that arise in the context of online social networks, a subset of nodes may be labeled. These labels can indicate demographic values, interest, beliefs or other characteristics of the nodes (users). A core problem is to use this information to extend the labeling so that all nodes are assigned a label (or labels). In this chapter, we survey classific...

By definition, criticism involves the application of principles or values in order to make judgments for the purpose of bringing about positive change. Understandably, criticism comes in a variety of forms. For example, rhetorical criticism carefully examines and judges the quality of discourse. Our subject here is critical social science, which critiques basic social structure (Littlejohn, 199...