BACKGROUND Process evaluation of community-academic partnership function and fidelity to principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR) is essential to achievement of intermediate and long term partnership goals. OBJECTIVES This article describes the evaluation of B Free CEED, a community-academic partnership created to address hepatitis health disparities in Asian American and P...

Social cohesion is an important determinant of functioning and healthy communities but its spatial distribution and relation to residential segregation within cities has not been adequately addressed due to the lack of small area data. A disconnect exists between the social capital and segregation literature. This paper presents how neighbourhood cohesion is spatially distributed in Sydney and ...

The work presented in this paper has been carried out in the context of a summary writing environment provided with automatic grading. Regarding summarisation discourse, some of the most relevant variables identified in previous work are comprehension, adequacy, use of language, coherence, and cohesion. This work is focused on cohesion. The described exploratory study starts from basic automati...

The debate on causes and consequences of social capital has been recently complemented with an investigation into factors that erode it. Various scholars concluded that diversity, and racial heterogeneity in particular, is damaging for the sense of community, interpersonal trust and formal and informal interactions. However, most of this research does not adequately account for the negative eff...

Class cohesion refers to the extent to which the members of a class are related. Several class cohesion metrics are proposed in the literature to indicate class cohesion and a few of them are mathematically validated against the necessary properties of class cohesion. Metrics that violate class cohesion properties are not well defined, and their utility as indictors of the relatedness of class ...

Class cohesion refers to the degree of relatedness of class attributes and methods. Software developers use class cohesion measure to assess the quality of their products and to guide the restructuring of poorly designed classes. Several class cohesion metrics are proposed in the literature, and a few of them are theoretically validated against the class cohesion necessary properties. Metrics t...

Class cohesion is an object-oriented software quality attribute and refers to the extent to which the members of a class are related. It is one of the fundamental measures of the goodness of a software design. Software developers use class cohesion measures to assess the quality of their products and to guide the restructuring of poorly developed software. To obtain a more comprehensive and mai...

Cohesion is one of the fundamental measures of the ’goodness’ of a software design. The most accepted and widely studied object-oriented cohesion metric is Chidamber and Kemerer’s Lack of Cohesion in Methods measure. However due to the nature of object-oriented programs, static design metrics fail to quantify all the underlying dimensions of cohesion, as program behaviour is a function of it op...

Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone (henceforth BA)1 serves as justification and support for one of the most influential hypotheses in contemporary social epidemiology, namely that the primary explanation for health inequalities in wealthy countries lies in low levels of social capital or social cohesion. For example, the major textbook of the sub-discipline2 includes two chapters on this topic. Putn...