The accelerated news cycle and constantly emerging news-worthy events have led to ‘citizen journalism’ where people who are non-journalists collect, analyze and disseminate news pieces. This paper seeks to leverage tags drawn from iReport, an active citizen journalism Website to detect major news events. The goal is to examine the coverage and efficacy of news detected in iReport vis-à-vis thos...

This review paper looked at some of the most relevant material on senior citizens' issues. The study aimed to use secondary data analysis determine pressing needs citizens. essay examined their current situation, problems, and needs. Nepal's elderly population is growing every year. They have not received adequate care from government. private sector made a considerable contribution this endeav...

1 Environmental Research Institute, North Highland College, University of the Highlands and Islands, Thurso, United Kingdom, 2 Reef Check Australia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 3 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4 Remote Sensing Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queenslan...

This paper introduces the ongoing MyFinder project, which was launched in October 2010. The goals of this project are: (1) to propose an intimate personal genome information environment, MyFinder, which supports the search for our inborn talents and maximizes our potential for a meaningful life; and (2) to contribute to scientific discoveries in the biomedical or psychological research domains ...

This study looks into the Chabacano speakers' degrees of productive proficiency in Zamboanga City. One hundred ten (110) people aged 12 to 70 are involved. The uses picture-description exercises gauge writing and speaking abilities City's speakers. findings showed that while may improve, skills acceptable. Speaking exams Senior Citizen Group performed best. exam results show no discernible gene...

Road traffic has severe effects on animals, especially when road-kills are involved. In many countries, official road-kill data are provided by hunters or police; there are also road-kill observations reported by citizen scientists. The aim of the current study was to test whether road-kill reports by hunters stem from similar landscapes than those reported by citizen scientists. We analysed th...

For large companies, offshore sourcing is rapidly becoming a prerequisite for competing. But for small companies, it is generally assumed that the incremental per-worker savings associated with offshore sourcing are likely to be outweighed by the cost and risk of establishing an offshore operation. Nonetheless we found four European SMEs that have not only succeeded offshore, but gained access ...