social capital referred to communications and links that based on trust and formed between human and institutional collections as a valuable source. this article aimed to explore the social capital concept and its indicators and how to evaluation its criteria, and then compare this variables in executive organization of qom province until can introduce a clear illustration about this concept. t...

this study aims at investigating the linguistic representation of male and female social actors in the four corners 4 textbook, drawing on cda. more specifically, van leeuwen’s (1996) framework, which highlights the connection of linguistic and social practices, is used as the analytical framework to examine gendered social actors in this english language teaching (elt) textbook. to this end, c...

Anonymity is one of the main virtues of the Internet, as it protects privacy and enables users to express opinions more freely. However, anonymity hinders the assessment of the veracity of assertions that online users make about their identity attributes, such as age or profession. We propose FaceTrust, a system that uses online social networks to provide lightweight identity credentials while ...

Spiders have become an important model to study the evolution of sociality, but a lack of their detailed natural history and taxonomy hinders broader comparative studies. Group-living crab spiders (Thomisidae) provide an excellent contrast to other social spiders since they lack a communal capture web, which was thought to be a critical factor in the evolution of sociality. Only three non-webbu...

Over recent decades, the growing research on social diversity at country level has striven to explain several outcomes such as differences in income across countries and origins of civil conflicts. The literature employs a wide range indices measure that hinders comparison results with respect their effects socio-economic performance. This paper intends disentangle variety applications. To achi...

background and purpose: the problematic reduction of civic engagement in local communities of khuzestan province in the southwest of iran has became a serious issue for research in social planning and policy making. efforts have been made to study the risk factors as the deterrents to engaging in the society. methods: this study aims to investigate the factors influencing civic engagement among...