INTRODUCTION To help address physician shortages in the underserved community of Prince George, Canada, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and various partners created the Northern Medical Program (NMP), a regional distributed site of UBC's medical doctor undergraduate program. Early research on the impacts of the NMP revealed a high degree of social connectedness. The objective of the pr...

social capital that exists in relations among social actors and the existence of fortified civil society, with a modern, powerful and developmental state can advance the development process in developing countries with minimum damage and in shortest time. the elements are the three sides of one single triangle. if unity and balance exist and an organic relationship is made between those element...

Social media provides rich sources of personal information and community interaction which can be linked to aspect of mental health. In this paper we investigate manifest properties of textual messages, including latent topics, psycholinguistic features, and authors’ mood, of a large corpus of blog posts, to analyze the aspect of social capital in social media communities. Using data collected ...

extended abstract 1. introduction the concept of social capital is one of the most important concepts during two decades in various fields, especially in the field of organization. social capital means links and communication among members of a network, providing essential social support and energy to facilitate actions through creating norms and mutual trust. some scholars of social and behavi...

social capital and quality of life are one of the most important growing concepts in society. social capital is productive as any other capital and it is considered as a suitable ground to take advantage of economic and cultural capitals as well as a way for the success of a society. this study aimed at evaluating the effect of social capital on the quality of life of azadshahr's citizens....

intellectual capital is set of knowledge-based assets that belongs to an organization and will add value to key organizational stakeholders and this leads to a better competitive situation. the objective of this research is to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital and companies' performance in iran during 1382-1387 using lisrel software. earning per share, return on equ...

changes emerged in recent decades dramatically affect the formation and intensification of social problems among iranian youth. among the social problems we can mention the social anomy among the social members that reflects the chaos and anomy in the society. this article is allocated to social anomy among tabriz azad university students and effect of social capital on it. the research method ...

Communities with high levels of social capital are likely to have a higher quality of life than communities with low social capital (Coleman, 1988, 1990; Putnam, 1993, 2000). This is due to the greater ability of such communities to organize and mobilize effectively for collective action because they have high levels of social trust, social networks, and well-established norms of mutuality (the...

background burnout is a common syndrome associated with job stresses in the health sector personnel, especially female nurses. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate burnout and its association with types of capital among female nurses in educational hospitals of kermanshah university of medical sciences. patients and methods this was a retrospective cross-sectional study. the stud...