This article aims to contribute an understanding of how social and institutional factors affect the language learning environments university students studying less-commonly taught languages (Turner, 1958), at beginner level by distance online. The empirical material is drawn from longitudinal case studies who enrolled in beginner-level courses LCTLs a regional Swedish early 2010s. study suppor...

the main objective of this study was to investigate the understanding of relationship between social capital and participation in sports activities. the study was descriptive and methods of data collection and field measurement tool were made by the researcher as questionnaires. the population of the study, all women over 18 years old and lived in iran, was 164, 535 people. the sample size was ...

Social/collaborative learning is a learning procedure that is student-centred and involves a task-based and activity-based approach that collaboratively provides several advantages such as: communication, interpersonal and social co-operation, sharing, caring, openness, creativity, management, practicality, responsibility, involvement and participation. Social and collaborative learning improve...

OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis of a positive association, independent of social position, between participation in leisure activities and cognitive function in middle age. The nature of this relation is explored by first classifying leisure activities as entailing high or low cognitive effort, and then classifying them as entailing individual or social activities. SETTING London based offi...

The multiagent workflow systems can be formalized from an organizational structure viewpoint, which includes three parts: the interaction structure among agents, the temporal flow of activities, and the critical resource sharing relations among activities. While agents execute activities, they should decide their strategies to satisfy the constraints brought by the organizational structure of m...

This paper analyses the contribution that cultural activities make to social integration and satisfaction with life for older adults, using a nationally representative Dutch sample. Older people participate less frequently in social gatherings and have fewer close contacts than the adult population in general. They also experience increased feelings of loneliness. In contrast, older Dutch adult...

In this article, findings from a national survey of social service managers are described. Respondents were asked to identify theories and models of management that influenced their administrative activities. The results indicate that many of the respondents used an empowerment-oriented approach to management. Respondents were more likely to engage in management activities that focused on empow...

This paper develops a framework for the analysis of the optimal levels of corporate social responsibility activities in a multiperiod supply chain network consisting of manufacturers, retailers, and consumers. Manufacturers and retailers determine their production quantities, transaction quantities, and the amount of social responsibility activities they want to pursue that maximize net return,...

The practice of human-centered methodologies for software development, such as agile methodologies, is impacted by the surrounding technological environment. This paper analyzes the potential of the Mobile Social Web in facilitating the social dimension of agile requirements engineering. In doing so, an agile requirements engineering process (AREP) is presented. AREP consists of a nonlinear seq...