objectives: this paper reviews the current literature on acquired brain injury (abi) with a focus on abi burden, importance of community integration, and community integration definitions suggested by the literature. methods: literature review results: acquired brain injury (abi) is referred to a diverse range of disabilities resulted of injury in different parts of the brain. people with abi a...

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In chapter 22 of this volume, Kenneth Gergen analyzes how mobile telephony is transforming the political process and democracy. For him, the structure of political communication in Western societies has gone through a series of highly significant changes during the past fifty years. Between the government and the individual voter, there has always been a layer of face-to-face relationships in w...

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Adequate nutrition is a key factor to live an active and healthy life. In spite of its importance as a determinant of health and development, malnutrition is still a neglected area and too little has been done to address its causes and serious social and economic implications. However, recently there has been growing interest in nutrition with stronger political involvement at national and inte...

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Transport poverty is an issue that has never fully captured the interests of the transport engineering profession in either the Global North or South. And yet, it is a problem that adversely affects the daily lives of literally millions of people within both geographical spheres. What precisely constitutes transport poverty is not adequately articulated within the academic, policy or infrastruc...

We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of ‘macro’ and ‘micro’ characteristics of social interaction networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings concerning the role of those characteristics in determining learning, diffusion, decisions, and resulting behaviors. We also discuss the challenges of account...