Agriculture in developing countries is complex and vulnerable, especially for resource-poor farmers. They require location-specific technologies and solutions developed with their active involvement. In Nepal, several top-down approaches have been tried but there appeared to be challenges in addressing the needs of poor farmers. Participatory approaches emphasise involvement of local farmers an...

Over the last decade, the disaster response landscape is increasingly complemented by voluntary citizen initiatives on digital platforms. These developments have opened up opportunities for response agencies and NGOs to organize local community involvement. In this paper we focus on the question how citizen involvement can be proactively organized toward disaster relief and what kind of dilemma...

In response to the rapid growth of the assisted living (AL) residents, this article considers the resulting range of roles, opportunities, and challenges physicians may face as increasing numbers of their older adult patients choose residence in AL facilities. The problem is framed by providing an overview of the AL industry and reviewing AL resident demographics and health status characteristi...

OBJECTIVE To describe practices affecting parents' overnight stays, provisions for parents sleeping overnight and parents' involvement in overnight care of their hospitalized child. METHODS A cross-sectional telephone survey of Canadian and American hospitals with more or equal to 50 acute pediatric beds and more or equal to two pediatric wards was conducted. RESULTS Surveys were completed ...

Authentic rehabilitation requires the active participation of patients and their involvement with opportunities for action and development. Within this framework, in this article we outline the possibility of using two emerging computing and communication technologies-ambient intelligence (AmI) and virtual reality (VR)--for a new breed of rehabilitative and clinical applications based on a stra...

The purpose of this paper is two fold. Firstly, to inform the Australian software engineering community of the European Fifth Framework research structure and the involvement of an Australian partner in a fifth framework project, CORONET. Secondly to describe the CORONET project. CORONET develops a new approach for software engineering training in knowledge networks. CORONET aims to support on ...

Purpose of the article is analysis experience gamification in modern professional education. The presents an project activities senior students higher educational institutions against background process. study made it possible to determine role vocational Gamification acts as a means promoting deeper involvement process, their achievement indicators and results. Its development education expand...

A number of studies have found a negative relationship between IQ and delinquent involvement. Some researchers maintain that IQ is a spurious variable in the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and delinquency, whereas others assert that IQ bears a causal relationship to delinquency that is independent of the effects of SES. Results from two Danish prospective longitudinal studies a...

Based on a longitudinal case study of ICT adoption and e-services development in a Danish library, we examine how governance modes affect technical and organizational change in the public sector. We contribute to extant literature on the links between governance and innovation by highlighting three important aspects that characterize such links. First, our case study shows that the transition f...

School-based bullying perpetration and victimization is common worldwide and has profound impacts on student behavior and mental health. However, few studies have examined young adult outcomes of bullying perpetration or victimization. Research on factors that protect students who have bullied or been bullied is also lacking. This study examined young adult externalizing and internalizing probl...