OBJECTIVES Palliative care services have, up to now, paid insufficient attention to social aspects of dying and bereavement and this has affected how patients and their families experience end of life and bereavement within their communities. New public health approaches to palliative care offer a different way forward by seeking to develop communities that support death and bereavement. Such a...

This paper looks at pathways to reproduction in three pre-transitional societies from a sequence perspective. Rather than studying the final transition in a life course process (i.e. first birth) we compare the full sequence from living in the parental home to having a first birth. Three communities in southern Sweden, eastern Belgium and central Italy are studied using longitudinal individual ...

Coral endosymbionts in the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium are known to impact host physiology and have led to the evolution of reef-building, but less is known about how symbiotic communities in early life-history stages and their interactions with host parental identity shape the structure of coral communities on reefs. Differentiating the roles of environmental and biological factors drivi...

As plants of different life-forms generate different soil communities, assessment of climate change impacts on soil communities and soil services must consider how these impacts are conditioned by the vegetation above. We investigated how soil communities under different plant species in the same ecosystem respond to global change. In a heathland FACE-experiment, we modelled projected global ch...

Argumentation, having its roots back to ancient years, is used in many aspects of everyday life, such as law, politics, education and decision making. Argument Visualisation Tools serve the need of visualizing natural language’s argumentations, targeting in the elimination of the traditional community sites’ disadvantages such as the lack of expressiveness. This paper presents ArgVis, an argume...

Using the SIOC explorer The entry page shows a list of SIOC forums in the database. In terms of SIOC each collection of posts is called a “forum”. After selecting a forum, a list of post excerpts is shown in the main column. The user can expand a specific post in order to see the full content and comments. The user can then browse posts by author or by topic or by period of time across all foru...

the survival of rural communities depends on appropriate investments and creation of viable and sustainable job opportunities. rural entrepreneurship is a driving engine of job creation and economic growth in rural communities. when we speak of rural business success or longevity, it seems important to determine how rural entrepreneurs define success. for the past decades, profit, growth and in...