Recovery efforts after natural disasters typically focus on physical infrastructure. In general less attention is paid to the social infrastructure that might impact the capacity of the community to rebuild. We examine perceptions of preparedness and recovery (markers of resilience at the community level) in the wake of Superstorm Sandy with a novel data set that includes a multi-mode survey of...

social cohesion represents the interaction and linkage of the society, is a most important reason of different institutional performance to achieve economic development. the purpose of this paper is to estimate social cohesion and the relation of social cohesion with economic development for 85 selected developed and developing countries in 2010. in this research the social cohesion index have ...

Cohesion is considered as one of the most important software quality attributes. Cohesion refers to the degree of relatedness between members of a software component. Cohesion is one of the few internal software attributes that has been both theoretically and empirically shown to have large impact on external software quality characteristics like maintainability, modularity, reusability, testab...

Objective To assess the prevalence of disability and its association with social capital among community-dwelling elderly. Methods The study was based on 2nd Health Survey of Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region - 2010, that included 1,995 community-dwelling elderly, randomly sampled. The exposure of interest was social capital, measured by confidence in neighborhood, perception of the physical...

OBJECTIVES Young people's perspectives on the association between having a family member with a chronic health concern (FHC) and their own health are under-researched. This study used young people's reports to assess the prevalence of FHCs and their association with negative health outcomes, with an aim of identifying potential inequalities between marginalised and non-marginalised young people...

Abstract Across online support communities, community cohesion varies by platform and can impact the self-disclosure of members their exchanges social support. Through a comparative study forum chat-based mental health this research examines how technical features both platforms influence affecting communication patterns among members, including evenness communication, speed number participants...

What is cohesion fatigue? Cohesion fatigue is the asynchronous separation of chromatids in cells that are arrested or delayed at metaphase. In normal anaphase, synchronous chromatid separation is followed by cytokinesis and mitotic exit. In contrast, after cohesion fatigue, cells usually remain locked in mitosis for some time after chromatids separate. Cohesion fatigue requires the mechanical f...

Background: Falls present a major challenge to active aging, but the relationship between neighborhood factors and falls is poorly understood. This study examined the relationship between fall events and neighborhood factors, including neighborhood social cohesion (sense of belonging, trust, friendliness, and helpfulness) and physical environment (vandalism/graffiti, rubbish, vacant/deserted ho...

In this article Putnam’s claim, that persons in the US living in areas with high concentrations of ethnic minorities hunker down, is investigated in the Netherlands. Hunkering down is conceptualized and operationalized as: avoiding public spaces, refraining from social contacts and evaluating the neighbourhood unfavourably. Using multi-level modelling based on a representative sample of almost ...

Cohesion was rst introduced as a software attribute that could be used to predict properties of implementations that would be created from a given design. Unfortunately, cohesion, as originally de ned, could not be objectively assessed, while more recently developed objective cohesion measures depend on code-level information. We show that association-based and slice-based approaches can be use...